Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.
*** Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread ***
Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.
If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following: 0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine. 1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything. 2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS. 3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.
Resources: please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question. *Search: qwant, searx, ixquick or startpage. *Many free software have active mailing lists. *Many free software has an active bugzilla where you can check and report errors
$ man %command% $ info %command% $ help %command% $ %command% -h $ %command% --help
Don't know what to look for? $ apropos %something%
gnu is a plague, desu. Their software is 3/4 shittier than the alternative.
Jaxson Martinez
why? Give examples
Sebastian Perez
why to what? It's a plague? it's been leeching off Linux for decades. GNU/Linux implies GNU is at the forefront when that just isn't true. GCC can be replaced Gnome is shit. Hurds dead GuixSD is broken shit.
Jordan Bell
Gcc absolutely cannot be replaced man. That shit runs on literally anything and it's free.
David Thomas
llvm is the toolchain of choice for most compiler writers these days.
Logan Gonzalez
Just don't respond.
Jayden Phillips
How do you configure vim to reflect your urxvt colors? I can only find info for changing the vim colors to the dozen or so templates included, or make your own, but I don't want to do that I just want it to follow my terminal colors.
Bentley Fisher
What's a cool program that allows me to tag pictures and stuff and then search the tagged pictures like I would in for example a booru site
Ethan Bennett
make it yourself. but local boorus are pretty popular.
Jason Williams
How do I solve this, installed xfce and removed my primary GNOME dekstop. Now after boot I am logged into terminal with my name. Without any desktop enviroment. Any way how do I save my shit?
A display manager (such as LightDM plus its greeter) are another option, and allow you to choose what environment to boot into. But they're not mandatory obviously.
Jackson Jones
>if you need a program just go spend dozens of hours developing it Beautiful piece of advice
Nolan Perry
i already said there are ready solutions. But being on linux and not knowing how to program is pretty silly.
Elijah Brooks
Not him, but can you list a few? danbooru seems like too much of a Hindenburg, just looking at the services it depends on.
Jeremiah Price
wtf I thought that's a crab first
Brayden Wright
Lmao what the fuck is wrong with you, what kind of reply is that to someone simply saying they don't have so much time to develop such a program for themselves? Do you do it? I'm 100% sure you couldn't make an image viewing and tagging software yourself
Matthew Russell
>danbooru seems like too much of a Hindenburg seems to be common, but github.com/ImoutoChan/ImoutoProject/releases looks promising if you can build it. >I'm 100% sure you couldn't make an image viewing and tagging software yourself if you ask nicely i'd consider it.
Aaron Gutierrez
im a bit confused with partition things. Could someone give me an example how to partition and then create filesystems for UEFI and single hard drive? why after creating creating sda1 partition, sda2, and sda3 when in filesystems meniu i see 5 partitions! sda1, sda2, sdb1, dev/mapper/lastusername-vg-root, dev/mapper/lastusername-vg-swap_1 ?
Christopher Foster
GNU/Linux*
Jose Nguyen
i literally told you what to do earlier. And because you followed the directions blindly and used LVM wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LVM
Maybe you should find an install guide in your native language, you filthy ESL.
Benjamin Baker
I've been having a/v sync issues with Kodi, smplayer can play the same content but doesn't have any issues. I've tried running Kodi in an xfce session and as it's own session. I've tried turning off vdpau and vaapi. I like Kodi for being a media center I can wean my girlfriend off netflix with but not if I can't stand the a/v sync. I know there's a manual tinker setting but It's too much of a pain in my ass to sync each episode of a tv show. For clarification I've seen it happen through the gamut of file rips. From 480p to 1080p.
Adam Lee
i never got the point of kodi. Unless you really need to stream to other things. just set up a pretty front-end launcher and use mpv.
Easton Gomez
I want to use a freetard distro (Parabola), but I need the proprietary WiFi driver. Is there any way to add that thing to linyx libre? Don't really want to change the whole kernel just for one thing.
Benjamin Lopez
You need at least one EFI partition and one system partition. Some opt to also create 1+ separate partitions for shit like /home etc. Some opt to create a swap partition, others use a swap file or completely opt out.
After you partition and format, install the base system, then install and config the bootloader.
You will likely also find a metric fuckton of guides on Youtube if you need a step by step guide.
Consider installing on a virtual machine first.
Jack Morales
Meant for
Dominic Russell
Install systemd
Robert Phillips
>just set up a pretty front-end launcher and use mpv Like I said, I'm trying to wean my gf off netflix/streaming services. It's a simple straight forward alternative we can use for any media. I'm using smplayer as an mpv frontend but that's not something that's as readable on a 40" set from across the room as Kodi.
Isaiah Brooks
>openrc fixed
Aiden Gomez
LVM is probably over your head atm, just go with bare partitions
Cameron Rivera
I don't see what using a kernel has to do with one's programming ability. Disconnect yourself, you fucking poser.
Jaxson Reyes
no that would be linux
Andrew Gonzalez
t. brainlet
Jordan Sanchez
let me know when hurd and guix are actually usable.
Aiden King
So I fucked up and accidentally did a chown on the entire /etc directory I could kinda fix it but now Nautilus is not showing connected disks to mount
anyone got any tips which files I have to correct the permissions to make it work again?
Jason Ortiz
>dozens of hours you can just use exiftools to manipulate the Exif.Photo.UserComment tag and then just coreutils to list them :^) could be done in 10 minutes
Noah Carter
why would one care about imaginary kernel when there are OpenSolaris derivatives?
Benjamin Miller
>You need at least one EFI partition and one system partition. technically, you *could* make a linux filesystem image on the ESP and have the kernel loop mount it, resulting in having /only/ an ESP but i doubt there's ever a good reason to do that, just "because you can"
William Mitchell
>can't even develop their own kernel so they have to leech off another project the absolute state.
Hudson Peterson
isn't that literally a description of GNU?
Caleb Howard
-- actually, don't loop mount it, have it as an immutable file, and mount it by it's offset, that way you avoid the overhead of going through the vfat driver
Chase Wilson
do i have to have xorg to have somekind of gui, like windows manager like i3?
Henry Mitchell
I'm just retarded Had gparted open the whole time which blocks the drives from being accessed/mounted
Michael Morales
Can you give different workspaces different wallpapers in i3?
Matthew James
it is possible, you can bindsym exec feh commands to change workspace and execute feh at the same time
Adrian Jenkins
your choices are xorg, xcb (xorg with new c bindings that are supposed to be better), or wayland. they are display servers which also handle mouse and other inputs, so yes.
Ryan Reed
whats better, xorg or wayland and why?
Oliver Myers
wayland is objectively better but has awful adoption right now. If you don't have a nvidia GPU, sway is really good for a tiling WM. Gnome supports it, and fedora now defaults to it. There's also Liri OS which is an alpha Arch fork with a whole DE. Shame you currently can't fucking build it on Arch because of QT mismatches though.
Michael Gray
If you're pretty close to a default install, and still have your usb or whatever you installed from, you could compare the two. I think it should be mostly root:root, but a few things will have a different group ownership.
Kevin Wright
>Want to use Linux >Am a retard at coding which I assume is the main reason for using Linux OS
programming isn't a requirement, as long as you know how to read and edit config files (which is most of linux use honestly). It just makes it easier and better than windows.
Adam Turner
for((i=0;i
Tyler Lopez
is there any terminal tool to automatically rotate scanned book pages? even detected angle would be enough
you dont i know absolutely 0 programming an i use debian
Bentley Sullivan
You surly meant GNU/Linux.
Jace Harris
So what motivated you to use Debian and what do you mostly use it for?
John Perry
Yeah it's fairly fresh I'll fix stuff when it comes up (hopefully not much)
Charles Lopez
no i didn't as there's nothing GNU on my system.
Blake Gutierrez
I wanted to remove my windows partition so i did a fresh install of linux mint 19. Now however, when i get to th elogin screen it just freezes? Should i reinstall?
Blake Hill
Then you should go back to the reddit where you belong.
Ayden Bailey
what do you mean freezes? It shows the login but you can't type or move your mouse? can you switch TTYs (press ctrl-alt+ F1-8)?
Gavin Cox
to get away from windows i dont want to be bothered by updates that will break things ive set up
Camden Ward
>Want to use Linux GNU/Linux* >Am a retard at coding programming* >which I assume is the main reason for using Linux OS a GNU/Linux based OS*
And no, you don't need to know how to program to use GNU/Linux, unless you want to write scripts to automate shit.
Joseph Harris
Distros like Ubuntu don't require you ever touching the cli. Give it a go. Don't be shy.
Chase Clark
that's not really a positive.
Andrew Nelson
You don't need to know shit to write scripts, just how to google properly
Hello friends, how can I make it so that any and every instance of the Ranger file browser that is launched by me or some program does so on a particular terminal emulator instead of xterm?
So far it launches just fine on st whenever I tell it to, but when an external program launches the "browse files" command, it tends to do so in an xterm ranger instance. How do I force it to always use st instead of xterm? (Would that be unwise to do globally?)
Carson Long
i3 is a steppingstone to pure cli on a crt
Ethan Davis
No, and don't call me shirley.
Oliver Evans
>Linux with no graphics what's the point, desu.
Dylan Ward
*use a search engine properly
Ayden Taylor
>learn nothing about programming >have to use jewgle every time you need to write something >coy ans paste for hours until you get what you want vs >learn basic programming >read a little of bash >make whatever you want in less than 10 minutes
James Lopez
graphics are the work of the devil
Dominic Hughes
even templeOS has graphics though. checkmate nerd
Alexander Davis
Is there a noob friendly way to build from source/github on Ubuntu? I've been using Arch for a long time because the yaourt makes the AUR super easy.
Samuel Lopez
./configure make make install
Angel Scott
That color glimmering was usually a sign that a game was cracked, followed by a testosterone dick waving logo of the cracking crew and cheat selections - before the program started.
The whole thing escalated quickly; you gad like 64k of RAM and therefore limited ways to impresss the user, so you hacked your way using every bug and leak to present a cool animation for your crew. That.s how the demoscebe started and disks with nothing but such hack-demonstrations on it. Cool shit, look it up.
Justin White
I can move the mouse a little bit and type a few letter then it just stops and doesn't react
tesseract (OCR software) has a mode which just does orientation/script detection you could scrape that and have imagemagick rotate images, or tag images with appropriate rotation exif metadata
read through your /var/log/ folder or just reinstall i guess.
Kayden Morgan
>nano user you went through a Gentoo installation but didn't learn how to use vim or emacs? Talk about misplaced priorities
Lincoln Hall
Why do people use shit like sublime text? Why is it so popular?
Anthony Martin
It's the text editor popular with ubuntu babies and hello world tutorials on youtube. install VS Code.
David Allen
Heh, >Why do people use shit like Apple hardware? Why is it so popular? >Why do people use shit like Microsoft software? Why is it so popular? >Why do people use shit like Discord? Why is it so popular? >Why do people use shit like Google Chrome? Why is it so popular? Pretty sure the answer is the same. :^)
Sebastian Anderson
b/c it's popular
Logan Anderson
Am I supposed to just see a flash of color bars and then the "proudly presents" bit? Or some sort of animation?
Wondering if there's something wrong with my terminal emulator or if that was the intended effect
Dominic Turner
>installing gentoo >harder than earning vim or emacs u serious nigga?
Adrian Lopez
i've installed and used gentoo for a year and only know enough vim to quit it, and i've never installed emacs before
Eli Harris
vi/m is easy, it's just a pain to use, and you can rat hole on ricing and keybinds forever.
Christian Carter
That's not what I meant.
I meant more like if you went through the bother to install Gentoo I'd expect you to at least know the basics of a decent terminal text editor. Editing makefiles and configs with nano sounds tedious as all hell.
>Only enough to know how to quit Well, that's a start I guess. Emacs' keybinds are ass, but it is very powerful. Some people recommend Emacs with EVIL mode plugin (vim keybinds) for ultimate text editing experience
>Vim >pain to use uwotm8 Once you learn the basics you end up wishing everything had similar controls
Mason Hill
I finally decided to try out lunix and installed ubuntu on my laptop but the problem I have is with the black bar on top and want to remove it. The one that says "Add-ons Manager - Mozilla Firefox"
Just the color bars and the animated text, yeah. Sorry to disappoint you.
Jayden Thomas
That's just the title bar user. I haven't used Unity (Ubuntu's default desktop environment) in a long time, but I assume there's an easy option to tick off in its appearance settings menu or something like that, so it doesn't show title bars
Jason Parker
You didn't disappoint me user, that was pretty cool Bash scripting is something I know next to nothing about, I should probably try my hand at it