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Why? I find it very aesthetic I literally can't stop staring at it for some reason.
Owen Garcia
Any good word processors that don't look like ass?
I installed OpenOffice for about 7 seconds before I -R'd that ugly shit
Carter Torres
No. We only like ugly programs.
Camden Nelson
Thanks for spamming Jow Forums with your shitty general OP, your giant dick picture is an accurate representation of the current state of Jow Forums.
Christopher Perry
vim+LaTeX
Dominic Lewis
Tripfags fuck off
Wyatt Flores
In the day and age of men oppression, dick waving is not only encouraged but mandatory.
Levi Cox
Can you recommend me a simple way to encrypt a directory in ubuntu?
basically i want to be able to simply encrypt or decrypt it in terminal and if it's decrypted i can use it as an ordinary directory. when encrypted i don't want people to be able to be able to tell ho many files are there and such
Ethan Bell
>your giant dick picture is an accurate representation Indeed.
But not as accurate as your butthurt newfaggotry. Perhaps the next OP should attempt to capture it in image form somehow.
Mason Evans
there problem with these small indie projects is that they aren't exactly trustworthy
Christopher Sullivan
Is Linux Mint for babies?
Jason Rodriguez
Jow Forums why didn't you tell me to enable tearfree in radeon.conf why is ATi so Jow Forumsreat how can Inlet™ and nTeria even compete
Luis Edwards
you can that in nautilus, look up seahorse
Jason Edwards
So I just realized that it's possible to solve these new captchas now with Javascript disabled.
It just shows the image grid as a single image with checkboxes on it. Why does this image not show up in the w3m browser?
Dylan Foster
Does anyone know how it might be possible to watch a cytu,be channel in mpv?
Jeremiah Young
Its all in shell script, and its only 3000 lines. If you are paranoid, just read through it. As i said, its just a more intuitive front end for luks, and that has been audited and is air tight.
isn't that kind overcomplicatd tho? you can mount and umount luks container with just like 2 commands
Ryder Collins
On my linux server I put a a .7z with a bunch of pictures on it (~2GB) and whenever someone tries to download it, the download fails. Where can it come from ? Is it my server that is fucking up somewhere ? my internet connection ? his connection ?
Did you try it? Afaik they did lots of free software stuff like dynabolic and devuan.
Angel Rogers
Trying to setup gentoo using Sakaki's guide, only difference is that I'm using F2FS for the root partition. I made sure that F2FS stuff is enabled in my KConfig and rootfstype=f2fs but im still getting an error telling me that my luks partition doesn't exist on boot :( Is there anything I am missing, or should I just restart with ext4
Josiah Walker
All I tried was "mpv " but it doesn't work. Failed to recognize file format.
Logan Bailey
>should I just restart with ext4 ^
Brody Rivera
>snap packages have their configuration files under snap-specific directories please tell im mistaken and this is not correct no one can be this retarded
if you've been running linux or unix for at least 10 yeras and aren't using arch or gentoo why even bother
Camden Hill
Can someone walk me through setting up a Linux install to properly use a USB audio interface? Without getting crackles in the audio etc.
Jeremiah Gutierrez
OK. How the fuck can i compile a kernel module? Based on tldp turorial the make don't give a shit about the source file and just move in and out of the include directory.
Dominic Green
I installed debian on your incubator machine while you slept in it. Your mom still wants to kill me for it.
Gabriel Green
so I have this old ass Satellite L300 latptop that I'm using as a samba and rtorrent server. Works great except for the fact that the fan comes on when CPU is around 45C, spins for a couple of seconds and then stops again. I want to modify the fan curve so it comes on only when it really needs to, around 60C+. The problem is that pwmconfig, part of fancontrol, doesn't detect any PWM-capable sensors. Is there another way to control the fan on a old laptop? I'm fairly sure the laptop allows it, if I coldboot the laptop the fan spins at a constant speed when the kernel and initrd are loading, and stops before I get to TTY login.
Benjamin Jackson
maybe the acpi or the processor module controls it?
Julian Phillips
how do i fix rendering issues in LXDE? sometimes buttons, texts, or even parts of a window cannot render properly in lubuntu (which i pretty sure is ubuntu with LXDE) what can i do to fix this?
Isaiah Morales
All I have in /proc/acpi are two folders and one file, none of them are related to fan control or even temperature. Must be the cpu module then. Any way I can control it?
Leo Carter
install youtube-dl so you can view urls
Connor Harris
Which kernel?
Jacob Martinez
4.4 LTS, but it shouldn't matter.
Blake Edwards
But which kernel?
Asher Rogers
How the fuck do I switch caps lock and backspace on linux while maintaining the key lock thing? I'm on Manjaro using GNOME. I've found plenty of semi-working solutions, including those in the GNOME tweak menu, but nothing that works perfectly.
Jace Taylor
Currently emerging @world in my first gentoo install and was wondering, since gentoo uses sources do I need a big ass root partition? I have arch on sda1 24g, left 24g free on sda2 (gentoo) and sda3 is home. I am not using LVM, so is 24g enough for install gentoo?
Intel has the same option, named literally the same. Perhaps if you weren't so retarded and actually knew things, you wouldn't be so obnoxious. Cunt.
Alexander Wright
Guys I literally cannot stop sucking dicks
Chase Lewis
For the same software installed, you need a bigger one than for ubuntu for example, but still need much less than for windows. 20-30GB should be enough, especially if you don't plan to compile gigantic shit like browsers or office suites. Also, compilation and source files take up extra space, but you can "move" those to another partition easily with settings or symlinks.
Jace Morales
using tranny os is wrong
Joseph Nguyen
>being a faggot or a street shitter is OK, being trans is not fuck of SHIT-lord (pun intended)
>By modifying or distributing the Program… you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it. sfconservancy.org/news/2018/sep/26/GPLv2-irrevocability/
> if something is named literally the same it must work the same >calls ME retarded
Aiden Kelly
roses are red violets are blue while (true) pacman -Syu
Nathaniel Wilson
Yes
Leo Young
Now it should be
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 broken Unix terminal from '96. 1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the transexual community without installing anything. 2) Dual boot two dicks in your ass 3) Go balls deep and replace everything with a new code of conduct
What's the easiest tool to record a Linux boot iso on Windows?
Jack Robinson
what do you mean by "record a linux boot iso"?
Matthew Allen
> What's the easiest tool to record a Linux boot iso on Windows? audacity
Luis Bell
Get rufus.
It's a better description than 'burning an USB', at least.
Angel Powell
>It's a better description than 'burning an USB', at least. Oh, that. Grab win32diskimager and write the iso to the USB drive (it's just the dd'ing it under real operating systems).
Kayden James
I meant burn, not record lol
Colton Parker
The best filemanager?
Grayson Ward
midnight commander
Jaxson Flores
coreutils
Elijah Perez
I like thunar. Lightweight, does the job, everything else is CLI work anyway.
Andrew Thompson
Can i list all the installed programs (or at least the ones without guilty) in the terminal? I assume yes, but how?
David Foster
in debian like systems there is dpkg -l
Landon Hernandez
gentoo
Elijah Price
First run 'man hier' to learn about the GNU/Linux file hierarchy, then pick a directory.
ls /usr/bin/*
For packages, ask your package manager.
Aiden Long
f2fs has built in encryption, why are you putting a layer of LUKS beneath it? >you need a bigger one than for ubuntu for example you don't need a whole lot. the more you have the more you're compiling the longer it will take you to update. you will stop updating things like chromium, webkit, and firefox when you realize you'll be compiling all day every day to keep them up to date. >in linux, everything's a file!
Chase Taylor
is it possible to make a hard drive music where I put my music that I can access from either my linux or wangblows partition?
Or is there an easier way to go out about this bros
I have already installed the amdgpu-pro driver, but I want to run and write opencl 2.0 stuff, do I just need to install this support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/OpenCL2-Driver.aspx on top of the current driver or do I need something else?
Evan Walker
I'm going to turn my raspberry pi into an ldap server so everything will authenticate against it since it's a low power always on device. any problems with this idea?
Daniel Hernandez
Not particularly, I think
Eli Gray
I just got Debian testing thinking it'd be like Arch Linux with the benefit of deb files, but there's still so much outdated software that I am honestly just going to switch back. And no, I'm not just going to get all the deb files manually and suffer when pacman's default repositories already have the latest versions of software I need without any configuration. Emacs 25, for example, is not compatible with my configuration. Time to install Arch again I guess, it seems it's the only reasonable option to use for something that just werks and for no bloat.