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What can I do to activate Windows 10 these days? I remember using m$toolkit several years ago, but I don't know if that's what you use these days. Asking for eventual KVM with GPU passthrough.
HOW did you FUCKS get into UNIX, Linux, GNU/Linux and HOW LONG did it take you to learn and get so fucking good at it?
Luke Ward
Disable show hidden files in your file manager.
Isaiah Long
Old job required configuring/managing satellite networks that used busybox on the clients and solaris on the servers/routers.
Cooper Roberts
Got a laptop as a kid with broken power management hardware at age 10 or 11. It basically couldn't run Windows.
Started running Linux as my main OS at 13, installed Gentoo at 15 and never felt at home in any proprietary OS after that.
Really positive experiences with the community were a huge factor throughout.
Isaiah Campbell
Has someone tried SteamOS? It is good?
Ethan Carter
What is the etiquette way of exchanging keys with someone over the internet? If I send someone a gpg encrypted message, how are they expecting to find my own key and fingerprint? Should I just include it in the message itself? Send it separately? Tell them to look it up on the key server?
Christian Hill
Is there a downside with running fsck over and over? Would it affect my drive badly?
Is DD-WRT better than AdvancedTomato? Is there somterhing else better?
Noticed after switching to AdvancedTomato my tablet's battery life increased dramatically (from around 15% idle drain per day down to 5%) but in exchange it often will fail to respond to events in a timely manner when I activate a script from my PC or other devices. Wondering if DD-WRT would fix this
Carter Watson
openwrt
Alexander Adams
jumped from windows 7 to debian in january because windows 7 won't be supported forever (i'll be ahead of Jow Forums when support ends in 2020) and for open-source projects that can only be built under linux for some reason even if the product is cross-platform
my distro progression was debian -> ubuntu -> fedora -> arch -> gentoo
& puts the process into the background; when the process is finished, it stops. that's normal
Gabriel Allen
Yea but the process isn't supposed to finish, jalv is a plugin host for lv2 plugins and it's supposed to stay open. It stays open without the & but I need it to run in the background pic related is the behaviour without the &. It waits for more inputs while running. How can I do this but without needing to have a terminal open for it?
a few days ago i was asking about crashing on btrfs. it really was btrfs, the solution for me was to go back to ext4
Jackson Wright
looks like a flatpak containing wine and a wangblows program. Guess it contains -a wine versions which can run that program well -settings, third party dlls and other shit needed to run that program so you don't have to run winetricks
Colton Clark
Start it, give input, the hit ctrl+z.
Xavier Hall
void vs arch? it seems like void has a low support/package database
Joshua Diaz
If I use i3wm is there any reason for me to upgrade from ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04?
Alexander King
Yes, newer packages in the official repos. GCC 8 for example.
Benjamin Evans
The stuff I use most frequently like emacs I just compile myself, but of course if I compile everything myself I could might as well be stuck on 14.04. How about performance and stability, does that differ or is it mostly up to kernel version?
Michael Taylor
Installed it, used it. Deleted the Windows partition too.
Very nice, thanks. From the looks of it there is little benefit for me so I will stay on 16
Adrian Brooks
What happened that so much people who want to use Void show up latly?
Anyway: There are three distros: Arch, Debian, Gentoo; use one of them. The only excuse not to use them is that you want a freetard version like Parabola (or Debian or Gentoo), or when you want a systemd free distro like Devuan (or Gentoo).
There are lots of distros, all targeting a specific audience, but once you know what you want, they all don't matter anymore.
Colton White
Void is interesting if you care about a different package management and want to experiment with musl. IMHO for tinkering it's nice, but settle with a distro that isn't for experiments.
Noah Gutierrez
same result as with appending & there has to be some linux magic to make this work right? could making it a systemd service work?
but why the heck is it making ext2 instead of ext4?
Adam Lee
That's just how its named. ext3/4 is pretty much ext2 2.0. ext2, 3, and 4 are all handled by the same ext4 code in the kernel. the userspace tools are the same way, they just never renamed them from the "e2fs" convention because.. well, why?
don't worry, if you invoked it as mkfs.ext4 you made an ext4 filesystem. Actually its the same program that makes ext3 and ext2 filesystems though, it just changes what kind it makes depending on the name its invoked as, if I remember correctly.
Xavier Hall
I can't seem to correctly mount my efi partition when installing guixsd. I follow the instructions on the website then it gets to the part about mounting the efi partition and I don't understand where it wants me to mount it or where it should be mounted. If you have /boot on a separate partition for example, mount it at /mnt/boot now so it is found by guix system init afterwards. Does this mean I need to mount it at /boot/efi or /mnt/boot/efi and how the fuck does that work if it's a different partition. I'm lost bros
I feel like shit. I've much knowledge about GNU/Linux, but 99% of questions ITT are just about installing, and I feel useless; I haven't installed in years.
Which is the most common package manager? Not the "best" just the most common?
Nicholas Jackson
apt
Elijah Adams
By number of users, probably Google Play Store
James Adams
/boot/efi is the usual location. No different to mounting any other partition, mount -t vfat /dev/sda /boot/efi or whatever. mkdir /boot/efi first if you don't have it already.
Hudson King
I meant GNU/Linux
Jayden Reed
What aur helper do you guys use?
Chase Cook
apt
Robert Powell
pacaur, nothing else is even close in features and ease of use
Zachary Reyes
>not installing gentoo every week you are not gonna make it
Austin Ross
deprecated
Charles Miller
No, its feature complete and is compatible with pacman 5.1. its not longer being updated but it dosent need to be when its feature complete. And again, no other wrapper come close to features and ease of use
Lucas Howard
http proxy is for http transmissions only. SOCKS proxy is universal, can be used for anything.
Anthony Ross
>The current 6-year old code has severe limitations leading to long lasting issues, and a complete overhaul is needed to properly fix them. However, it is clear to me that maintaining a popular helper is not worth the time nor the hassle. Without entering into the details, this has become an unpaid job I dislike more and more - and I've been talking about it for far too long too. As such, this project is now unmaintained.
>The stable version will continue to work as it currently does for the foreseeable future, with some issues becoming apparent starting from the pacman 5.1 release. Users are encouraged to move to another solution (see wiki for good alternatives).
>No, its feature complete and is compatible with pacman 5.1. its not longer being updated but it dosent need to be when its feature complete. >And again, no other wrapper come close to features and ease of use
>6-year old code Did you know the Linux Kernel is over 30 years old?
Andrew Robinson
Did you know that the Linux Kernel is actively maintained?
Oliver Lopez
>the actual pacaur developer
>some Jow Forums shitposter
who should I believe?
Angel Lopez
But it still has code in it hat is decades old.Even 10 years old. Its still put together and functions despite being old.
Hunter Evans
>who should I believe? Then why does it work exactly the same way as it has since it was released? I just used it to update. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?
Ethan Cook
I have a couple of bash scripts that record camera feeds and such that I want to run on startup and have them restarted if they fail. I'd also like to have logs and such. Right now I'm doing this in an ugly hackish way by having a script that spawns tmux session, creates windows for each of the scripts and runs them.
What's the simplest proper way to do this? Systemd services?
Dylan Peterson
what would you suggest then?
Ian Wilson
henlo
which wm offer the most flexibility and ease of customizability, without sacrificing resource usage
Levi Gonzalez
Got into it by installing Debian on an old atom based laptop that coudnt manage windows. Wound up having to use that system as my main rig for a while and googled fixes to problems as necessary.
Jayden Campbell
If you need them at system startup then yes, an init script/systemd service is the way to go.
Sebastian Williams
I just updated to Devuan Ascii (Debian Stretch, with sysvinit), from Jessie. Now my laptop waits for a minute while booting for eth0. I don't need eth0, I only have access to wifi. How do I disable this? It wasn't like this before.
Levi Thompson
go to /etc/network/interfaces and delete the ethernet section. You can manage it with wicd if one day you need it.
James Garcia
I have just installed debian and bspwm. Configured sxhkdrc file and i can confirm, what key commands wrok. Now my problem is super + space does not run dmenu. I do have sucklesstools installed What could be the problem? How do i troubleshoot this?
Samuel Brown
Yo. I'm getting SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument after trying to set a temporary static IP on my lab compt with sudo ifconfig enp0s25 10.1.1.50 255.255.255.0 up
It works, that is, it sets up a temp static IP and I don't run into any issues during my exercises, but I can't figure out what the output of SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument is supposed to signify. Google didn't help much.
I started with Ubuntu and now I want to learn more and I've read that Slackware is good for that. Why shouldn't I install Slack?
Luke Lewis
No dependency management.
Landon Mitchell
i give up trying to setup LUKS and shit on Arch, too complicated
Robert Williams
Its easy as fuck Follow the wiki
Alexander Wright
Fixed it. Add to bottom of .Xresources: Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
Firefox was ignoring hinting settings set through xfce.
Kevin Sanders
no it really isn't. there's multiple different wiki articles you have to read, not just one simple guide. you have to set special paramaters for grub, then your fstab manually, then a ton of other shit etc. etc.
>multiple guides Because it babysteps you through each part of hte process. YOU LITERALY COPY PASTE CHANGE DRIVE LETTER CHANGE PASSWORD your way through the wiki
>luks setup on ubuntu >say "yes" and type password feelsgoodman
Robert Adams
yay
Andrew Carter
yeah but im sick of using Ubuntu. I found a simple guide on howtoforge for Arch so im good
Levi Rogers
>getting tired of things working one day you'll stop caring about what distro you use
Aaron Powell
>AUR if you can become a contributor to the AUR in like 10 minutes, how exactly is it secure? some rogue individual could do some very malicious things if they were so inclined
Gabriel Cox
duno bro no idea
Hudson Powell
Botnet
David Brooks
been disabled by default for ages now, no-one uses unity anyway not really relevant anymore, friend or just install ubuntu-minimal from CLI and put the stuff you want on top then it's just like arch!!
Oliver Wilson
It's not secure. You have to know what you're doing if you use it. Also, a rogue individual can put up packages for any distro on the internet and do some very melicious things in them.
Levi Hall
thats why you read the PKGBUILD before you install it
Jace Ward
you can read the pkgbuild if you're unsure, they're usually short and just download code/binaries (if you know what program you're installing you should know if it's an official url) and build/install them
