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1st for clang is overtaking gcc and there is nothing you can do to stop it Whats wrong gcc? Cant handle he competition?
Easton Rogers
There's no "overtaking". It's a healthy competition. Clang may be end up more widespread, but that's for licensing reasons, not quality.
Ryder Myers
I think the biggest turn off if I was learning Linux would be all of this emphasis on distros.
Install Debian and CentOS minimal on VMs and instead of spending time ricing then out learn bash and all of the tools installed by default. I believe neither enables the network card by default so that’s an important one to figure out. From there you can install some packages I use every day like Vim, tree, htop, etc. Then learn to compile software using Cmake, make, etc.
Also basic admin shit, useradd usermod chmod are things you actually use a lot if you’re in an environment tearing down and rebuilding machines constantly. SSH obviously is important and takes 20 mins to figure out.
Then get into writing scripts using bash and learning regex with grep then sed then awk.
Then learn about systemd.
Luke Martin
Might I please ask for counsel upon what would be the best distro to use for someone who really, really liked Mandriva Linux? What I liked : it came with everything working out the box in terms of media codecs and such like (I believe it even offered you the ability to purchase a license to play mp3 files), and the desktop environment was by the far the most pleasingly designed of any distro I've ever used. It used KDE, and had a really awaesome desktop background that changed once every 30 mins or so to reflect the time of day. Anyhoo, what's the reckoning on a good replacement please? Noob friendly with a stunning desktop UI either natively or easily installed. Thank you.
Devuan with SysV or OpenRC? Or should i just stay on Debian?
Chase Morris
just purged my twitter to refocus, what's some good gnu/linux news twitters?
Brandon Evans
1.Faster binaries 2.Smaller binaries 3.Better debug messages 4,No shitty plugins that are kernel dependent. >Chromium defaults to clang >Mozilla defaults to clang >Apple defaults to clang >Google defaults to clang >Nvidia defaults to clang >AMD defaults to clang Yes, it is only popular because of the license and not the astounding performance gains. Once Linus gets rid of those shitty gcc plugins Linux will be built with clang
Both work just fine. openRC supports parallel startup to speed up the booting process however it might not be fully supported on non-gentoo.
Blake Hill
>openRC supports parallel startup I dont know how to even use that so it probably doesn't matter
Dylan Jenkins
literally setting a variable in its config file to 1. Try it once.
Hunter James
Which runit compatible distro would you guys recommend? I'm looking to get back into Linux but want to avoid systemd cancer.
Blake Moore
How the fuck do you get a python script to load with systemd service files? I just want it to start on system boot and kill it when told tooand when the system ends.
Jonathan Reed
Linux
Carson Phillips
guess you have to create a systemd service and for the command to run you specify the python script directly or using "python /path/to/scrip"
Ryan Richardson
I have that. It says it cannot find it. ~/.config/systemd/user LITERALLY WHERE IT WANTS IT Doesnt do shit
Christopher Rodriguez
Try it will a proper full path, not with ~.
Jonathan Peterson
It is the absolute path in the script. ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /home/user/.bin/script.py
Tyler Richardson
What do people here use to read comics? I have Viewnior, I like it but what kills it for me is that the arrow keys do not scroll smoothly.
Is there an image tagging program that dosent duplicate your images? I've tried hydrus but having a duplicate file the same size as your collection makes little sense.
Jaxson Barnes
What's the current best method to encrypt DNS traffic? dnscrypt-proxy or something else? I haven't done this for a while and barely remember what I did last time but I did use dnscrypt-proxy but it was really clunky. I'm on Ubuntu. Also does this completely hide the URLs of the websites you're visiting from your ISP/the glowniggers.?
Daniel Cooper
Why isn't the Disks application in Mintbuntu integrated with the file managers (Thunar, Caja, etc)? I'm talking about being able to see disk properties like the device location (/dev/sda), UUID, partition type, and most of all the ability to power off the drive. Unmounting a drive, especially an external, does not power it off.
>inb4 just fork it and do it yourself
Matthew Moore
unbound+dnssec+dnscrypt-proxy. Archwiki has detailed instructions for various dns servers options
Parker Young
From what I remember, DNSSEC is the standard used by dnscrypt-proxy so that makes sense, but how does unbound fit into this?
Henry Fisher
It depends on what server you use, some dnscrypt-proxies dont have dnssec enabled, most do but its not mutually exclusive. >unbound Local caching dns server that enables dnssec if its enabled on the server,dnscrypt-proxy alone does not enable dnssec, you need a resolving dns server to enable it
Gavin Morris
The only popular runit distro i know of would be void linux.
Connor Ross
Fucking incel. Cyka
Jace Martin
what's the best virtualization software you'd recommend? virtualbox is a nigger in the ass in dual boot because of secure boot what's the best alternative (i want my VMs to be able to communicate with each others)
Lucas Rivera
Turn off secure boot
Xavier Wilson
problem is it's a GNU/Linux - winshit dual boot so that's gonna be a no
Tyler Wright
I have a chromebook and I'm planning on installing Mint on it. How do I go about uninstalling Chrome os and replacing it with MInt? I've looked and haven't found a solution.
Owen Kelly
Look up Gallium OS
Leo Ramirez
Mageia is the new Mandriva. From my personal experience I think you will prefer OpenSuse though.
Austin Cook
What does `journalctl -e` say after you try to launch it?
James Wright
Anyone using Icecat here?
It seems slower than Firefox ESR, and it has preinstalled extensions you can't remove (normally).
Noah Murphy
You dont need secure boot for anything, specially not linux.
Bentley Adams
qemu and possibly some qemu front-end. virt-manager is bloated as fuck but gets things done.
John Long
you can disable the integrated addons. >seems slower than FF esr that's true sadly. Literally one guy working on it, regardless of its being a priority FSF project.
Parker Cook
I haven't noticed any difference in speed between icecat and normal ff. How could it be slower when all they are doing is changing some permissions/tracking shit and enabling/disabling some addons? Granted I have most of the addons disabled. I don't think it matters if they're fully removed or not, speed should only be effected by whether they are disabled or not.
Which version of icecat are you using?
Carson Cook
IIRC it has some webgl/canvas related shit (which can accelerate things btw) disabled because they can be used to track the user.
>52 That's what I was wondering because icecat quantum is fairly new and might not be adopted by some distros yet. As you probably know (despite all the hate ff quantum gets over the plugin engine) quantum represented a totally new engine for ff and has _huge_ performance increases with increased parallelism.
So if you're comparing pre-quantum icecat to post quantum ff then yeah, that'll definitely explain the speed differences.
Nolan Lopez
this
Owen Green
Are you able to rice Gallium OS? What about Steam games?
Zachary Hall
Thanks! 60 runs A LOT better!
Zachary Sullivan
what about winshit? i know that it is not a big deal with Linux, but winshit doesn't work the way GNU/Linux does what about xen? is there no way to make virtualbox work with secure boot? it's fucking annoying, i'm used to it
Hudson Fisher
Would UDF be a good choice for an OS agnostic FS that can hold >4GB files?
David Russell
Can you set a default directory for scrot to save to, other than with a bash script?
Brandon Diaz
Xen is a type 1 hypervisor that uses qemu. Why would you want secure boot in a VM?
Lucas Long
how to list moutable drives and devices for example phone or windows partitions in terminal?
Jeremiah Adams
I use Xubuntu and installed i3wm. I like it but I notice that after a while I seem to get disconnected from the router and I have to click the applet to connect again. This never happened before so I think it might be related to the change, does anyone know what it could be?
Zachary Adams
KVM with linux bridges. And fuck secure boot, there's no reason to complicate things with that, your home server isn't a kiosk or laptop.
Angel Clark
Not as broadly supported as NTFS or exFAT, but it would work for Vista and later. NTFS is really the best. UDF and exFAT can't support asynchronous writes safely, or at least UDF can't outside of BSD.
Luke Thompson
you misunderstood, i have a dual boot PC (winshit and GNU/Linux) with secure boot and can't use virtualbox (on GNU/L) because it has to install drivers to the kernel, which changes its signature. problem is i don't want to disable SB because of the winshit OS
Levi Perry
I can't do netinstalls, what are the most bleeding edge distros available to me, is void netinst?
Connor Sanchez
virtualization without VT-X/AMD-V will be subpar anyway, just disable secure boot
Joseph Russell
There's something severely fucktarded going on with how you're handling the Linux side, but just disable secure boot and you won't have to think about it.
Charles Sullivan
pls respond
Josiah James
Gallium OS is just Xubuntu for chromebooks
Hunter Turner
So... yes? Sorry I am a complete brainlet when it comes to Linux, but I'm making an effort to learn.
Jaxon Gray
aren't chromebooks arm-based? steam is x86-only
Angel Richardson
I have the Samsung Chromebook 3 which has an intel processor. So no, I don't think so.
Charles Jenkins
Simplest way to create a single color image of any size?
Brandon Ramirez
Installing arch linux and trying to set up grub: mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/efi grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/dev/sda2 --bootloader-id=GRUB grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
After rebooting, I get kicked straight to GRUB shell, no error messages, no boot menu. Where did I fuck up?
Samuel Reed
>>>/sqt/ fuck off
Ian Cooper
oops, --efi-directory was set to /mnt/efi not /dev/sda2, so that wasn't the problem I don't think
Jose Richardson
Not a simple question.
Parker Williams
lsblk
John Butler
fdisk -l
Charles Nelson
i have just tried that and it lists only partitions on my one and only HDD which it does correctly nonetheless however it wont prompt me with my phone being connected although thunar can properly detect it and browse files on my phone
Chase Brooks
Third time returning to linux.
Going to dualboot it with windows 7 for application compatibility on an old HP Touchsmart 600 AIO.
Originally circa 2001-2003 I started on Suse. 2009-2013 I ran Ubuntu before it was completely botnet and then at last try in 2016 I was using mint linux. Is mint still a decent choice for productivity? I would use a more advanced distro for my particular hardware, but I'm really just trying to have something that would work as a daily driver with minimal setup.
Any gaming is likely going to occur on the Windows 7 side with how dated the hardware is becoming.
Gavin White
>even getting shilled for Manjaro on youtube recommended videos the hebrews are behind this, without a doubt
Parker Sanders
maybe because the phone is accessed via mtp and not via traditional block devices?
Jaxon Cook
XFCE is easy to rice/theme Steam will most likely work
silly me, it actually is. can you give me a quick rundown of what mtp ie exactly before i dig into that?
Jonathan Cooper
If your intention is to use it as a wallpaper then just use "xsetroot --solid #cc0000". Otherwise look up how to do it with imagemagick. Should be a simple 1 line command.
Nathaniel Perez
no, go on fucking wikipedia and read about it.
Ryan Thompson
Mint or one of the Ubuntu spins should be fine. KDE Neon/Kubuntu might work nicely with a touchscreen if you want to rice things up
Dominic Perry
Why do you people even care so much? There is _always_ going to be a distro being pushed to new users. It's not the distros fault, it's just how things are, and I suspect it's only going to happen more and more as GNU/Linux becomes more popular. What do you get out of pointing this out anyway? Do you like bashing on the flavor of the year distro for new users? Does it make you feel more elite? Get the fuck over it.
Sebastian Cox
Is it just the one phone you need? After you open it with thunar, you can list mounted devices with mount -l It'll probably be in the same place next time. ls /dev will also list all your devices, though it doesn't explain what anything is. Googling for "mtp mount" will probably give you more broad resources on what's going on.
