Welcome to /fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

How many of you lads are on GuixSD? Can someone do me a favor and submit a package for Deluge?

Yeah, it was really snappy, almost like I had it installed.
What's a good Gnome distro to try? I don't like ubuntu having that fixed side dock thingy and its so bloated every time I've tried it.
I don't quite get the different versions of it, I'll have to look into it more. I've used it before a few times but it was easy to customise and I always thought KDE was great for that.

Got it, I am sticking to one distro.

>What's a good Gnome distro to try
I prefer Manjaro

>I don't like ubuntu having that fixed side dock thingy
That should be easily changed with gnome tweak tool. The extension that does that is dash to dock

pic related is two different configurations of DtD

Attached: file.png (1920x2363, 2.76M)

I'll give Manjero a go now when it's dl'd. I somehow password locked myself out of openSUSE after a full installation in a VM, only one I've tried that's had to do that, took awhile as well.
I seem to remember liking the application menu system on gnome not sure if things are the same now, it's been awhile.

manjarrrrrro

Oh yeah oops - Manjaro, sorry you had to witness that.

Attached: manjaro distrowatch pepeguin cd.png (820x440, 95K)

annyeonghaseyo /fglt/! today I learned that piping the output of find into a textfile and using cat/grep is much faster than using locate/updatedb. And I also created my first systemd timer to update my self-made database which was quite easy. I hope you had a productive day too! ^_^

Attached: 1536188669746.png (255x204, 50K)

shut up nerd

okay

Attached: 1537007412062.png (300x241, 60K)

lmfao IDIOTS Linux is a KERNEL not an OS

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Good to know fren, I've been doing my share of testing CLI applications to replace my current bloated stuff like the email client.

Just had a look around Manjaro, seems to have loads of tweak setting, I found that dash to dock function btw, thanks for the advice.
It's a lovely looking distro, not sure whether the huge style of the interface is ideal in terms of everything is big icons like windows 10 tick boxes etc but it's something you'd soon get used to no doubt.
interesting though.

May someone explain the advantages of using Linux over or with Windows 10? I was curious about it would like to know its advantages. Likewise I have an interest in learning to do coding among other things. Redpill me guys

>in a VM

Attached: 1540563540377s.jpg (88x124, 2K)

>everything is big icons
It's not bad on larger resolutions. I wouldn't use gnome on a 1366x768 display but 1920x1080 and up it is nice.

It's overall much nicer and customizable exactly to your tastes. Some vidya titles not being available is the only con but you can just buy a console like a normal person or have a dedicated gaming pc.

I'm using it on that resolution on my tv 720p so it was a bit of a moot point from me, I'll try it out on my 1440p monitor later. Looks really nice though.
I'm testing what distro to install until I get sata cables later for my new drives.

Sticking to Debian

you're testing wrong

What's so great about Manjaro? I'm currently using Debian testing

>Some vidya titles not being available is the only con
Can this be cured by running Windows + Linux? If so, my penis is the big penis for Linux.

Yeah. Dual booting is easy.

Okay! Thanks friendo

be ready to rock and roll when the new windows update arrives and it overwrites your bootloader lmao

Not a big deal if that happens. It's easy to fix.

>t.windows developer

Ubuntu 18.10 is comfy as fuck.

Attached: Screenshot from 2018-10-27 00-28-01.png (1920x1080, 951K)

try it and find out for yourself

Attached: 1532762151546.jpg (1000x875, 119K)

people that use ubuntu might as well use window
theres no difference

people that use window might as well use ubuntu
theres no difference

It's more for functionality, ease of use, aesthetics.

people that use window might as well use ubuntu
theres no difference

>^_^
it's a shame the SS didn't get to your ancestors in time

arch update breaks the system far less often than windows 10 update does

We don’t tolerate any language likely to offend or alienate people based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion — and those are just a few examples. When in doubt, just don’t.

Semi noob here
Since I have rebooted my Mac Pro 2,1 (No EFI bios access) running Ubuntu Server 18.04.1 I have this problem

(ok) started virtualization daemon

it is frozen, what to do? I tried Atrl+Alt+F2 (currently) and startx command but stuck with Unity instead of KDE 5

I need to solved the daemon problem or switch to KDE by default

thanks

Semi noob here
Since I have rebooted my Mac Pro 2,1 (No EFI bios access) running Ubuntu Server 18.04.1 I have this problem

(ok) started virtualization daemon

it is frozen, what to do? I tried Atrl+Alt+F2 (currently) and startx command but stuck with Unity instead of KDE 5
Solve the daemon problem or switch to KDE by default

thanks

I didn't mean to reply to you a mistake, my bad

Understandable. Have a nice day.

This post doesn't make sense grammatically

>KDE
I don't understand, what does KDE have to do with libvirt?

If there's a Windows game I want to play that's not on Steam can I just open the .exe file with Proton? (Stupid question but I don't know shit about steam or gaming in general).

is manjaro a meme?
tried it out about 3 years ago and it seemed very bloated and bleeding edge.
right now I'm stuck with xubuntu but willing to try out another distro

I need some help guys.

I have been having issues transferring large files from an external HDD to my computer. When I try to transfer files larger than 1GB the entire system freezes. Been distrohopping recently and have found this issue on Fedora, Debian and Manjaro. I'm about to reinstall Kubuntu as I'm pretty sure I didn't have this issue back then.

Have tried two different external HDDs. One formatted to exfat and one NTFS. The problem occurs when I use the GUI or use cp or cp -r from the terminal.

It seems to be an issue with a few people, and I've editing the local.rc as it suggests but have had no luck.

unix.stackexchange.com/questions/107703/why-is-my-pc-freezing-while-im-copying-a-file-to-a-pendrive

Any suggestions?

sure thing.

>I doubt he'll see this since that post is from yesterday afternoon
I did, thanks anons. Though I ended with pretty much the same solution as you proposed, then filtered the ~1,000 results by hand using file previews in file manager.

I'm installing Gentoo soon, any tips on what to do after I get it bootable?

does the problem persists if you copy with dd

dd if=/somewhere/big_file.iso of=/media/usb/big_file.iso bs=2M status=progress

1. install virtual/cron logrotate and a system logger, I recommend rsyslog. They don't come with default gentoo. Add cron to default runlevel and rsyslog to boot
2. select a profile you want to use
3. emerge -avDuN world --keep-going
It will take a while. Not much if you use the base profile (if you don't want desktop)

No just cp and GUI copy paste

I'm only getting screen tearing on my second monitor with Compton, works well on my main monitor. Any way to fix this? my compton config is standard.

Is Nemo installed by default on Ubuntu 18.04? I've got it and it seems better than Nautillus, but I've got no idea why I've got it installed and I can't seem to get it to fit the colour scheme of Ubuntu.

Did you try

compton --backend glx --paint-on-overlay --vsync opengl-swc

Commands you shouldn't run:

pkill ""
:(){ :|: & };:
printf '\e(0'
stty intr $'\r'
sudo rm-rf --no-preserve-root /
echo c | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger

>no pacman -Syu

What's the most lightweight dock? I literally just want a box with icons in it. No flashy animations or anything.

pretty sure you can easily make that with XFCE

I should have three partitions right?
A boot partition (which you put on your SSD)
Another partition (system files I think?)
and a third partition for the /home directory

oh and another question, how big should my /home partition be? I only plan on doing music production so I'm not sure if I'll need any more than 100gb

File a has:
Abc
Foobar

File b has:
Abc

How to compare file a and file b in order to print Foobar? I tried diff, but its output isn't reusable.

Unless you are using EFI you only need a root partition (/) at around 30 gb, a 2-4gb swap partition depending on your ram and the rest you can use for /home.

thanks, and can you explain what EFI is?

having this problem with umlauts being cut off in simple terminal, here shown in Vim, using the following settings:

static char *font = "SourceCodeVariable:medium:pixelsize=13:antialias=true:autohint=true";

seem to work fine at larger sizes but I don't want my font to be readable from across a football field, so what setting am I missing

Attached: 1529897857344.png (390x188, 3K)

Any GPU Passthrough specialist here?
I have gtx 970, If i buy another cheap low-end gpu (with only thing i require it is having 3 dsub ports for screens) will it work?
My mobo has 2 pcie x16 ports, supports crossfire but not sli

From what i understand its just a different way of booting OS compared to the old way but it requires a few different things to be done the main one is that you would need to make a /boot/efi or /boot partition formatted FAT32 for it to work with Linux, usually its not really worth it unless you are doing GPU passthrough or you're forced to use EFI boot because your motherboard doesnt support the old method.
I dont really understand the specifics but its usually better to not use it if you have the choice.

I completely broke apt-get by blindly following a stackexchange answer. It's my fault, feel free to laugh at me.
Any idea how to fix it? Running apt-get just gives Bus error
This is what caused it
echo 'APT::Default-Release "stable";' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00local

nitrogen --restore only works if I set wallpaper in the GUI.

If I do nitrogen /path/to/picture.jpg --set-scaled in the terminal then nitrogen --restore sets it back to the previous wallpaper set in the GUI.

Am I doing something wrong?

Well, you added a line, so just delete the line.

REEEEEEEEEEEEE how do I fix this
I think I recompiled the kernel like 6 times already
Re-checked the efibootmgr line like 20 times

efibootmgr --disk /dev/sda --part 1 --create --label "Suckless Gentoo" --loader "\efi\boot\bootx64.efi" "root=PARTUUID=c5a847ba-4e35-4fd9-ab56-6709c1e83559 rw initrd=\initramfs-genkernel-x84_64-4.18.16-ck" --verbose

The kernel must be fine because it reads the partitions correctly, but for some reason it cries that the root= is wrong. I don't understand wtf is going on
Incoming second pic with the drive tree

I'm a different user than the above one btw

Attached: 2018-10-27 15_42_58.png (1024x837, 62K)

I did, but it's still completely fucked.

Linux?

Attached: 2018-10-27 16_16_01.png (496x399, 13K)

Is there anything like a GNU/Linux learning path for complete normies who have used only Windows so far?

Attached: 2018-10-27 16_19_30.png (509x91, 4K)

>efi inside virtualbox
Did you eat a bowl of stupid for breakfast?
>suckless
nvm you do it every day.

Just using it senpai. And always check the Arch wiki.

pic rel
I'm trying to do EFI because I want to make the exact same configuration as I will on a live PC
And it's called suckless because it's supposed to suck less than the previous setup
Plz no bully

Attached: 2018-10-27 16_20_25.png (287x75, 2K)

If you have a spare laptop I'd say just pick a distro and install it, mess with everything, or do it in a virtual machine and just tinker for a few days, its not hard to get the basics

1. install a just werks/normalfag distro in a VM or as a secondary system. Ubuntu installer is exactly as hard as windows 7/8/10 installing. Every major distro installer can resize NTFS partitions safely then you can put your gnu+linux on the free space.
2. start using your system. You will eventually boop into problems or want extra stuff then you can do research on how to do those and learn things on the way.

installed ubuntu server on oracles virtualbox
then installed xfce with sudo apt-get install xfce4
How do I run my desktop environment now? startxfce4 doesn't seem to work

apt install xorg

Arch for retards. The way they "manage" AUR should be enough reason to don't install that crap.

nah frick u u wont trick me trickster! I forgot to put sudo before startxfce4

Now that I did that and chose default settings it looks like absolute garbage. How do I configure it? Gnome looked better when I tried it in another computer.
I-I guess its fast and lightweight but its fucking ugly!

Attached: 2018-10-27 16_27_49-Ubuntu Server [Running] - Oracle VM VirtualBox.png (1094x781, 227K)

Never used Linux or *nix before.
Wanna install Solaris to give it a try.
Good choice?

do apt-get update
if that doesn't work log out and in again
then do apt-get update again

For a first timer you should just do mint.

on debian now varg

stop posting. Ideally you can also fuck off.

What's everyone's preferred Live Distro? I'm looking for one to put on a 128gb USB just for random use, email, etc.
I tried distrowatch but they always say use Manjaro. Is it really that good?

Attached: 1e9ae72d.jpg (344x342, 24K)