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$ man %command% $ info %command% $ help %command% $ %command% -h $ %command% --help
Don't know what to look for? $ apropos %something%
Also, what would you recommend reading to learn vim? Must have plugins? I tried something called vim adventure and it was pretty good, but they're asking a $25 licensing fee to use it all.
I decided to try out OpenSuSE tumbleweed in a VM but every couple of boots it seems to hang during startup and I need to restore from a previous snapshot to get it working again. This even happens if I don't install any updates.
Is this normal?
Xavier Jenkins
Have you considered qutebrowser?
Nathaniel Morgan
>vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_and_replace >., *, \, [, ^, and $ are metacharacters. >+, ?, |, &, {, (, and ) must be escaped to use their special function. Can I make the metacharacters also require escaping?
Evan Edwards
my touchpad randomly started to only scroll up and down instead of moving the cursor... i'm on arch, does anyone know what could be wrong?
Evan Butler
$ vim-tutor is all you need.
Good luck user, with persistence, you will discover a great editor. I started using vim a year ago and I will never go back.
Jaxon Diaz
A lot of people seem to like Kubuntu for its KDE Plasma interface. It does look pretty nice, but I think I actually prefer Fedora's Workstation GNOME interface. Very tidy and minimal and responsive and I can just press the Windows key and bring the apps up in boxes like you can in Android and easy add and take from the UI. Its a nice balance and on my Win 2 I often find myself happily tapping on the screen to do stuff with the mouse whilst my switch is set to controller for setting up games, and then flicking the switch back to mouse mode and using the mini keyboard for desktop stuff. KDE on these chinese devices seems to suffer massively from tearing and flickering also.
Jose Wilson
1. Is there any difference between installing a DE (in this case GNOME) during a netinstall rather than installing it afterwards? I've heard that it's recommended to do it afterwards since you can update the repos and get the newest possible versions but I'm more interested in if there are any differences in included software etc.
I've decided to go "balls deep" with Debian or perhaps MX to avoid systemd and when I installed GNOME under MX (default DE is XFCE) nothing besides the DE itself was installed as far as I can tell. Anyway, what I'm wondering is if there is any additional software included at all when installing GNOME? The regular installation media for Debian contains a bunch of shit like Thai support for the terminal, Chess and other junk I'll never use and I'd prefer having a clean install and manually adding whatever I want but perhaps they force certain things (Nautilus/Files for instance) ?
2. Could someone please give me the short version of why systemd is bad? Everyone seems to hate it but I'm not sure if it's a meme or if it really is horrible. The only negative aspect I've encountered is that it takes several minutes to shut down the PC which sucks although I guess it's not that big of a problem since I rarely reboot/shut down.
1. If you install the big metapackage: no, the netinstall would install that too. If you want to just install parts of the metapackage, then yes there are differences. > I've heard that it's recommended to do it afterwards since you can update the repos and get the newest possible versions Doesn't apply for netinstalls since they dl the latest shit anyway. For debian, even if you use the normal install cd/dvd and set up network mirrors during the installation they download updates too (at least security ones). 2. fuck off, we don't need another systemd shitfest thread
Noah Thompson
That's the GNU/Linux experience.
Zachary Harris
This is a weird issue that happens on Macbooks (on Void, at least). Usually it seems to be some issue with usbmouse or some other module grabbing the input before your synaptics/mtrack driver does.
I would do a search on the Void forums for "Macbook touchpad" and check out some of the solutions. It's usually just a simple adjustment of kernel modules (1 or 2 commands) or changing stuff in xorg.conf.d
Elijah Lopez
Yeah, sorry for the stupidity, I guess it only applies to minimal installations from official media. Is it possible to select which items to be installed or do you mean configuring it yourself with the bare DE as base? According to this article everything is forced when installing the "metapackage": packages.debian.org/stretch/gnome
Perhaps it would be easier to do a netinstall, get the DE itself and then add the software I'd like but I'm a bit worried that I'll have to install basic stuff like drivers for audio, X etc. but perhaps these are installed by default regardless of which DE you choose and/or if you do a minimal netinstall vs. official iso.
Aiden Hughes
Is Debian Unstable stable?
Nolan Miller
extremely rarely it has some regressions. Also sometimes the distribution is incomplete because one package was upgraded while the 20 depending on it are not yet. In this case, you have to wait till next day with that apt dist-upgrade. Otherwise it's debian quality. Shit that makes to sid was already marked stable by its dev and was tested in debian experimental.
If you find yourself using a lot of vim plugins, you should probably learn emacs. vim makes a very fragile, labor intensive IDE. At least in my opinion. There are definitely people who get around with it.
Joshua Jackson
Hi, so i bought t420s, painfully followed archwiki and installed arch. Its on the full ssd now, nothing after install yet, just tty, but i changed my mind and want debian testing, so i put it onto usb on another notebook and when i put it into the Pad, press F12 during boot, its now 20 minutes stuck at the “initializing intel boot agent” which took like few seconds yesterday when i booted from usb. Nit sure what to do. And if i unnount it and boot to that plain arch, it also takes like 5 minutes before the grub menu appears. After that its fast
Isaiah Green
Ok now it showed the boot menu finally, but choosing USB just takes seconds and returns me back to menu, doesnt matter what usb port i use. The drive is ok because on other win pc, it loads as debian install
Andrew Brooks
Try disabling it in BIOS. At least my t400 has an option for something similar. Resetting BIOS settings also may help.
What's the best distro for Nvidia Optimus hardware? Am I best on a bleeding edge distro like Arch?
Elijah Adams
Trying to figure out how to use wget to post to some of the CLI pastebins like sprunge.us. Any ideas? wget -O- --post-data "sprunge=hello" sprunge.us # doesn't work What am I missing?
Dominic Lewis
This never happens with arch. You might as well just use arch
>whoopsie - can send crash reports + apt purge whoopsie
Liam Martinez
Thank you for this info :)
Jeremiah Rodriguez
Do other distros use telemetry too or is it just an Ubuntu thing?
Jackson Cook
popularity contest is originally a debian thing, but debian and devuan ask your if you want to participate or not during the installation.
Colton Wilson
should I install devuan on my thinkpad? been running gentoo for a while
Landon Rivera
Yes
Noah Murphy
I hate tux with a passion. Especially that dumb-cute normalfag pleasing retard tux.
Benjamin Sanchez
> pacman never breaks
Mason Young
resource usage, nothing else I used Ubuntu before browsing Jow Forums, got memed onto arch and it was good as fug until it broke and I got pissed because all my configs were just fine so I installed debian stable some weeks ago. Fuck testing or unstable, if I wanted more up to date packages I would use Ubuntu or MX Linux (not really sure this is more up to date since I read is based on debian stable lmao) or Alpine (though looks like has few packages), Ubuntu now seems like a pain in the ass on the long run compared to debian so I'm not sure, seems faster to install than debian (since with debian you have to install and reboot for wifi firmware that actually works), so I'll probably try a minimal install when I get a new laptop.
Joseph Jones
I'm using stable right now, I don't necessarily need more up to date packages, I also read security is better on stable since on sid you have vulnerabilities or bugs that are public by the dev that may or not be patched by the devs of either debian or the package itself. I won't get back to be a bleeding retard like on arch since summer is over, I have to actually study on college now, also is not like you learn something fixing random config files of applications I don't develop.
Levi Ross
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
Torvalds, Linus (1996-06-09). Post. comp.os.linux.announce newsgroup.
Cameron Williams
Pretty ass that the community accepts this shit. First the Amazon crap, now telemetry. Slowly widening the assholes of Linux users. Next: DRM support, SSH Facebook login, grep amazon results
Jaxson Hill
GNU/Linux*
Chase Bell
I fucked up my Debian installation. Wi-fi and internet doesn't seem to be accessed, even with ping, and I don't have sudo or ifconfig access or I can't install anything. Modified interfaces file and all that.
Your choices include: -install gentoo -reinstall debian but don't fuck up this time -start your debian installer but choose rescue system in the boot menu. choose your installed system when it asks then install the necessary tools
Regardless of your choice >and I don't have sudo slap yourself in your dumb fucking face. You either have root if you choose to specify a root password or sudo for your user.
Jason Long
>install gentoo when will this meme end?
Hunter Hill
This post could have been friendlier, to be honest.
>Wi-fi and internet doesn't seem to be accessed Debian doesn't include proprietary firmware in the default install. >I don't have sudo or ifconfig Use su like the cool kids, nerd. You need to be root to have access to the netutils binaries.
Android is really depressing. >tfw you aren't administrator of your very own system
Aiden Hughes
the problem was that I haven't installed a desktop environment. redone the install and wifi seems to be connected now
I've installed debian on minimal but it was really difficult, should have wasted my time figuring out arch or gentoo instead
Zachary Brooks
How to check with apt if some package is already installed?
Ian Mitchell
dpkg -l |grep apt list |grep
Ryder Green
How can I change the terminal you open from within Dolphin (actions -> open Konsole here) to something else like Terminator? I can't find anything on google
Hudson Lee
Resource usage, too much shit in the main thread on Wayland, and le filepicker maymay. Other than that it's great.
Cooper Russell
1. DEs have settings for what is the default terminal application. Find this option and change it 2. Debian based systems have this "alternatives" thing. You can use "update-alternatives" to change "x-terminal-emulator" to your desired terminal emulator.
Leo Jackson
I already did the 2nd option (I'm running Debian) and Dolphin still has the same option. I'll try changing it on KDE itself.
Matthew Kelly
I am looking to buy a new laptop...
Either a topspec XPS 13, Zenbook pro or spectre 360x.
Will be dual booting windows/arch.
Does anybody have experience of using arch on either of these models? From what I have seen, the zenbook and xps have the best support.
the second example will give results for things not installed. i.e. apt list | grep firejail ?vs. apt list firejail
Mason Jenkins
I encrypted my ssd with Manjaro on it during the install. How/can I change the encryption passphrase in the settings somewhere?
Zachary Cooper
Pacman its self never breaks, it dosent put you in cyclical redundancy dependency hell. I see far more posts in these theeads about apt breaking and sticking you in dep hell then arch ever has
Ian Martin
I use comparator with Icecat and it works fine, as for learning vim, vim-tutor for the basics and a search engine for more "advanced" things. Also that guy that looks like the guy from the matrix has some interesting videos about vim.
i'm currently using manjaro kde and i want to switch to kubuntu. i have separate partitions: boot root home and swap
what will happen if i don't format my home partition during kubuntu instalation? what will be useable in kubuntu?
yes, the question is stupid but it could save me some time
thank you
Jayden Russell
I am looking for a good music player. I have been using vlc for quite a while now, but there must be a better application to handle music. Any suggestions?
Probably not a popular opinion but I only use Spotify since I stream most music and import the few albums I actually have as local files so that I can incorporate the tracks in my regular playlists. You can even sync it to the mobile app to get your local files "on the go".
clementine isn't awful but it's a bit more of a music library manager as well
Benjamin Sanchez
9.5.0-live+nonfree, it's the live CD version that lets you try it out and also install if you want to. The regular 9.5.0+nonfree is just an installation media so it boots straight into the installation and there is no option to boot a live version.
Adam Price
ty
William Collins
The music on the go feature sounds really cool. I have to check that out.
Anthony Gonzalez
If you want to save data you can download offline playlists although I only use the feature to be able to listen to music stored on my PC through my phone when I'm not at home. (If you add the local files to a playlist and then sync the playlist to your phone it automatically also syncs the local files despite them not actually being available on said unit)
Joshua Collins
Does anyone use icecat? I'm trying it out and I can't access google docs, I get a 403 (in particular trying to watch videos on cytube, but I can copy the video file links into the address bar and it still gives a 403). Does icecat block google docs? I've been trying to search for information but all I can find is some references saying that people experience this problem on other browsers too and no real solution.
I just want to make sure I don't waste time chasing a red herring if icecat is supposed to be blocking it. If it is is there any way to unblock it?
Dylan Reed
it has a modified adblocker that has an extra list or two, I guess it's that (assuming you disabled librejs)
Daniel White
use the i flag in apt list for installed
apt list -i | grep
Henry Morales
Hot corners are comfy as fuck. To my knowledge, I don't know if Windows has anything like it, but it would be so useful.
It's so much easier and less effort to move my mouse to an area of the screen to do something than set up kb shortcuts and shit. I can manage workspaces, open applications, take screenshots, etc. with one hand.
Why do we limit ourselves to just corners? Can't we make more configurations than just the corners?
Hunter Myers
I looked on the PCSX2 forum and found instructions in the linux forum to compile the latest version of the emulator with the proper support. using cmake. Kind of like the Dolphin way of doing it but with some extra instructions to stick in. So I managed to get it working with AVX and the performance, is kind of worse but a little better. So using Ghosthunter as a base example it seems to work alright on Linux. The intro is slow, but the effects capturing ghosts has way less impact and even for a little bit the game was running fairly smoothly. However on both linux and windows the game has a horrible habit of breaking. The screen going black and you have to reset the emulator to get it back up. But Dragon Quest VIII runs worse on Linux. Stable but with a lot of slowdown. It slows down on Windows a bit but you can cheat it and set it to SuperVU. Needs more testing I think. Try out some software mode too for some games that need it.
Jackson Wright
Mouse gestures.
Evan Sullivan
Is there any way of getting Plank to run under Wayland? I just installed Fedora and found out that it doesn't seem to support Wayland. So, is there any kind of workaround or am I going to have to find an alternative? Dash to dock is not an option.
Lucas Lee
>50-motd-news - sends infornations, recieves motd news/ads + set ENABLED=0 in /etc/default/motd-news
>geoclue/geoip - connects to canonical servers on every boot + gsettings set com.ubuntu.geoip geoip-url ""
>lightdm - pings uccs.landscape.canonical.com on login + set Servers= in /etc/remote-login-service.conf