/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

why not just use arch

i thought the whole point of arch was to allow you complete control and bleeding edge software. if you want a user friendly thing why not just use fedora or something

>firefox
>good

yeah it has 50% memory consumption for just 7-8 background tabs. this is the last time I'm ever falling for this meme. give me chromium or midori or even lynx, fuck this shit

Because so many things on you are computer expect python2.7
But there's nothing preventing you from installing 3.5 if you want to make scripts using that version.
/user/bin/python will still be a symlink to 2.7
>sudo update-alternatives if you want to break shit.

>tfw my professor made it mandatory to use vim or emacs
>need to use linux in vm
>calls it gnu/linux
>uses a thinkpad
Is she /oneofus/?

serves to show how important python is. also why would I install python3, i love python 2 i hate py3 and the constant PSF shilling that goes on everywhere

post one gpg request command you try to run (if its not super sekrit ofc)

tell the professor to suck your dick and use GNU nano the patrician editor

>vim

only command you need to know:

Keys: :q!
Mnemonic: “ESCape this COLON thing (colon thing is a name for vim), qUIT and do NOT! RETurn”

>emacs

A great OS, lacking only a decent text editor

please respond

:help :quit

>Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question.
neck yourself, it's the first result in any web search.

Hello. Tell me about soft-rt. Is 'soft real-time' enabled by default in Linux kernel? Is this an option you can select to begin with, or is it only a description of the standard kernel?

up
where is everyone

I have over 142 tabs active, at least a tenth constantly polling in the background with a shit ton of add-ons and I'm using only 4.2GiB

y..yeah.. buddy...

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thank you and sorry for being retarded

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Why is everything so blurry and fuzzy if I increase the scaling to 125% in Fedora via the system settings/display? Is there something else I need to be doing or is the scaling really this shitty?

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Also, how do I add a custom scaling option? I don't remember which scaling I used in Windows 10 but now that I think of it perhaps it was just 110%.

I'm running Gentoo on a laptop with i3. I've decided I want to switch from Xorg to Wayland. I already know I'll need to install Sway to have compatibility with i3, but what about all my other existing programs that use a display server? Will I have to recompile any of them with Wayland support? Would it be worth recompiling them without X support to shave off bloat?

They are basically the same for different distro families. Use whichever is available for you. I use only laptop mode.

I really like the default look of xubuntu, but don't want to be seen with a *buntu on my T420.
Is there a concise way of copying all the relevant config to a fresh debian install or should I just loose the GNU+cred

lots of stuff won't work without X, and you can have a wayland session that can run things in Xwayland if they don't support wayland yet. I wouldn't use -X globally.

even the unstable GNOME in gentoo with systemd reverts back to X for me.

just install the default xfce session and select it from the login manager.

Just install xubuntu-desktop under Debian. Who gives a fuck if you run Debian or Ubuntu? I'd personally recommend Debian for various reasons but you shouldn't care what others think. Besides, how would they know which distro you run? xfce (or in this case xubuntu-desktop) is a DE which is possible to install in any distro.

>Sway to have compatibility with i3
Sway is an Wayland implementation that copies i3. In Wayland the WM, compositor and display server become one.

Wayland has a compatibility mechanism. Xorg Apps™ are supposed to just work™. The native Wayland support comes from the graphics toolkit. Anything using recent GTK, QT and etc should just work™.

What gives Xubuntu this look is the greybird gtk theme, the Xfce elementary icon set and the whiskers menu.
The first two usually being packed together. I personally think the numix circle blue icon theme looks better.

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So basically I'm happy with icecat, only one problem, its unable to view streamable material as i'm guessing theres no current plugin that works to resolve swf files, so I can't watch twitch.tv, stream anime or porn or anything of the likes.

Is there anything I can do besides download another browser? I'm really content with icecat other than that fact.

Firefox 52 ESR here. It has been many years since the last time I needed flash. I do all those things and they work with HTML5.

What I specifically meant is, is there a workaround other than installing another browser, I like icecat cause muh freedoms, but there are stuff like streaming anime which is very important to me, so I was wondering if there was something like gnu's gnash project but actually works in 2018.

No, flash is done with, stream with html5.
If your source still uses flash, find a better one or download from public anime torrent sites

I installed linux and used sudo to start hacking
It said i was reported to the administrator. Will linus ban me from using linux?

How do you get magisk, lineageos and gaaps to install on a pixel xl? Bootloader is already unlocked but its such a clusterfuck on xda forum posts that no worker i have tried works.

I guess they will all most likely play on mpv(which uses youtube-dl on the background) but you obviously won't have the site's flash player.

>stuff like streaming anime which is very important to me
Chinese cartoons are important to all of us.

you should use the stock pixel xl instead of lineage OS. I wouldn't use lineage on hardware that is still supported by the manufacturer... and I doubt magisk would work on lineage?

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The administrator of your machine, a.k.a. (You). If you use su to login as root your can use the mail utility to see the messages.

You're finished, kiddo.

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I understand I can torrent anime and play with mpv/vlc (besides which is the better choice here? I saw vlc has hundreds of dependencies compared to mpv which is light weight although they both brand as light weight).

But speaking specifically with sites like twitch.tv, is it possible to make it work with icecat?

Twitch has not used flash for years now, they use html5...

>But speaking specifically with sites like twitch.tv, is it possible to make it work with icecat?
It is if you call an external player mpv+youtube-dl.

mpv has not gui by default, it just opens a video window. Vlc has a Qt interface. That's most likely the reason for the deps.

>wouldn't use lineage on hardware that is still supported by the manufacturer.
The stock image is bloated as fuck and unless you get rid of it at build time its in the rom. Recently the verizon version was exploited to unlock the bootloader. So i want to replace the rom.
>and I doubt magisk would work on lineage?
Lineage dev suggests using magisk if you want to pass safetynet(which more and more apps block if you dont pass)

What is a fast display manager with auto login?
I don't really even want to see it, I just need it for bumblee to autostart.

mpv has its own built in gui

Wait so why am I not able to watch any streams on twitch? it says 6000: renderer not available

Sorry i'm a little confused, by downloading a separate program, namely mpv, it somehow integrates with my browser without direct intervention? Does something on the html5 page when viewing a twitch stream try to invoke my default-installed media player (that being mpv)?

So with the same principal, by downloading vlc i'm somehow able to then view twitch streams as vlc is the medium to view streams through?

Because installing a system and using it are completely different tasks.

lightdm probably

Do you have x264 in your browser?

I want to make a script that auto installs and configures arch linux to my configs. So instead of reinstalling manually i can just run the script

How do I do this

>I'd personally recommend Debian for various reasons

Why?

>Sorry i'm a little confused
You can configure firefox/icecat to call a external player (you might need an extension). I don't know if Vlc has integration with youtube-dl, if not, you would need to make a script to call it with the video stream from youtube-dl.
Many autists from the desktop thread do this.

Make an image of your system drive and flash it when needed

I suggest you stop being a retard and reinstalling your operating system so many times that automating it becomes viable.

>verizon version
ouch. sorry... I wouldn't have bought a locked down phone. yes, you should not use the stock verizon rom in that case. I have the pixel xl but have not bothered with lineage since the stock rom is vanilla unlocked.

I have no idea, I am running the latest version of icecat, i'm looking on the gnu page but I can't really see what features comes with the browser apart from the freedom respecting part.

I see, could you point me in the direction towards this configuration? I'm a new user to arch so I have a lot of things to learn and a lot of things I just don't understand that can be done, being a converted windows user.

Are you sure? How can I call it?

I need help making plug & play usb convenient and hassle free.

According to the arch wiki: # mount -o gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick is what you're supposed to do to mount the usb as a normal user, i've tried it, it works, the only thing is that command is ridiculously long and tedious, is there any shorter more concise command that gives the same desired results other than editing fstab?

mounting a usb should not force me to memorize some random numbers for fmask/dmask or give such long optional flag arguments.

alias

>I have no idea, I am running the latest version of icecat, i'm looking on the gnu page but I can't really see what features comes with the browser apart from the freedom respecting part.
It's literally firefox without branding and pocket botnet. The lastest icecat is usually the lastest firefox.

Search "firefox extension external player" pick one and install a compatible version.

Note: Arch does not fully respect your freedoms. It includes proprietary drivers and firmwares and I'm almost sure their repo includes non-free software. You might want to take a look at Parabola GNU/Linux. It's Arch but free.

pmount

I suppose, I could also just invoke a bash script every time I want to mount a usb but its an unsatisfactory solution

No entry found in the man pages, additional package I have to install I assume? Not interested, just for something like mounting a usb

Arch wiki AutoFs.

>I wouldn't have bought a locked down phone.
I didnt have $1000 to flat out pay in one payment to get the google edition that was unlocked. Google didnt offer a payment plan
Since the exploit the verizon phone is effectively the same as the google edition.
>you should not use the stock verizon rom in that case. I have the pixel xl but have not bothered with lineage since the stock rom is vanilla unlocked.
The "verizon" rom is the same vanilla android google rom that came on the google edition,it has no preinstalled software,it is the vanilla android rom. Even if that were the case, i have flashed the oreo 8.1 rom from google as well as the pie 9.0 in attempts to install lineage 15.1 and lineage 16 respectively.
Lineage is lighter and has extra features not built in to the android google rom.

Why is this mask stuff necessary? I've never had to use any of that.

>No entry found in the man pages, additional package I have to install I assume? Not interested, just for something like mounting a usb
Try to find it, it will do the job.

Thanks i'll keep this in mind, I'm just going to do a background check on whether I should use mpv or vlc.

>Note: Arch does not fully respect your freedoms. It includes proprietary drivers and firmwares and I'm almost sure their repo includes non-free software. You might want to take a look at Parabola GNU/Linux. It's Arch but free.
I understand, but I can't deal with total freetard mentality, in a sense its not even freedom, since at that point i'd be giving up other freedoms (games, proprietary media etc) for a particular freedom which goes against fsf philosophy

No idea, whenever I try normally mounting, it will mount the usb as root thus being unable to r/w to the usb.

I'm not interested in AUR unfortunately, I consider it something adjacent to a back alley drug dealer handing out dubious substances.

So set it up in fstab and use udev to detect when it is plugged in

>I'm not interested in AUR unfortunately, I consider it something adjacent to a back alley drug dealer handing out dubious substances.
But pmount is the only tool that do what you want without being retarded. The only missing things is the support of loop device.

>I'm not interested in AUR unfortunately,
>i dont know how to read a text document

yeah.. PKGBUILDs are stupid simple.

what is the most based and redpilled PID 1?

systemd

epic trole :^)

openrc

s6

I'm dead serious. systemd is an amazing suite of tools for low-level userspace components, and their service manager/init system is top class.

>i'd be giving up other freedoms (games, proprietary media etc)
You seem to have a poor understatement of what software freedom is.
Those things are not free software because you can't fully control them.
They are not freedoms in itself. But you do have the freedom of using them or not. By going full freetard you are not giving this freedom up, you are exercising it and choosing to only use free software. You exercise it the same way by choosing not to go full freetard.

Windows 11: now with systemd

>runit (Stable Release: 2.1.2 / August 10, 2014; 4 years ago)
>openRC (Stable Release: 0.35.5 / March 15, 2018; 5 months ago)
>s6 (Stable?? Release: 2.7.2.0 / August 14, 2018; 3 weeks ago)
>systemd (Stable Release: 239 June 22, 2018; 2 months ago)
seems like openRC and s6 are under comparable active development to systemd.

Going fully by the 4 points outlined I understand, but I was using 'freedom' in me giving up other 'freedoms' in a generic sense, in that im supposedly creating an injustice if I use skype because it makes other use it to connect with me and all that.

But besides the point I've pretty much accepted that if I run a totally free system with free software like parabola I cant enjoy any of the stuff I like, so theres no point going overboard if free software (precisely defined on the fsf's site) alternatives don't even exist yet

Also, I have a question, according to this: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/html5-video-everywhere/?src=recommended

>Thanks for browsers and Linux distributions developers who chose to provide the extension build into their products (including GNU IceCat, Trisquel)

This isn't installed by default on icecat, but why do they say that it's included in icecat?

That doesn't mean anything. You can release a new version every day by only changing one line of code.

So on gentoo the kernel doesnt upgrade itself right?
I have to check whether new version of kernel is out and then manualy compile it and generate grub config?

yes. when you emerge the new kernel you are only downloading the source code to /usr/src

i think luke smith already did something like this.
github.com/LukeSmithxyz/LARBS

Is artix dead? I like pacman but don't like systemd
Parabola/Hyperbola seem cool but they don't include any nonfree packages which kind of sucks

Yet no one practices that and there are things called MILESTONES

is this shit?
7th Generation AMD A6-9225 Processor with Radeon™ R4 Graphics

for playing gaymes it is

>Going fully by the 4 points outlined I understand, but I was using 'freedom' in me giving up other 'freedoms' in a generic sense, in that im supposedly creating an injustice if I use skype because it makes other use it to connect with me and all that.
This does not follow from the definition of free software. It's Stallman's and FSF's opinions.

>But besides the point I've pretty much accepted that if I run a totally free system with free software like parabola I cant enjoy any of the stuff I like, so theres no point going overboard if free software (precisely defined on the fsf's site) alternatives don't even exist yet
Yes, I understand. This is exercising your freedom to use non-free software. Not giving up on it.

>This isn't installed by default on icecat, but why do they say that it's included in icecat?
It might be out of date.
This all is very weird, Twitch has always worked with HTML5 out of the box for me.

Yes, and those are different for each project. So last version is not a valid way of comparing how active the development is. Moreover, how active development is not a measure of how ready or good for use a software is.

is it good for normal shit? video/photo editing?
i don't play games at all