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How do I just learn more about gahnuu + linnuks? I find it hard to motivate myself when all I do is shitpost and everything just werks and I dont have problems on my machine.
Don't really know jack shit about the environment, how do I just learn what its all about? Was browsing around starting at / some stuff is common sense like /sys and some of its sub directories, but how the fk are you supposed to know what everything is doing, do people actually understand everything that happens on their machine or is it just a meme
Jason Morris
Break something then fix it.
Anthony Hernandez
I'm trying to setup japanese input. I've installed the japanese language pack for Ubuntu (I'm on the latest Xubuntu if it matters) but when I try to sudo setxkbmap ja, I get error loading keyboard description, I've searched online and the provided solutions didn't work for me so if anyone has any idea what it might be, pls tell
Caleb Kelly
Ironically I did some googling on Xorg and why people memed about it being shit, apparently its use case wasn't even designed for being a desktop environment, all the years of piling on and duct taping this aboomination has made it incredibly buggy, laggy and just unextendible - as people say.
To what extent is this true? Supposedly wayland is the solution to this - but then again it wont even run most thing since most things give support for Xorg and waylands backwards compatibility through Xwayland or whatever isn't even functional in general
How do I just get an overview of "what is gnu/linux" so I can just see the big picture, cause to me right now it just seems like linux + a bunch of shitty packages glued and stapled together which werent even originally designed for linux
Robert Young
GNU/Linux* man hier
Jaxson Brown
You should use a search engine which respects your privacy instead.
Nathan Morales
Can someone redpill me on flatpak? Is it supposed to get rid of dependencies and for easier updates/removal? Is this a future or just a meme?
Grayson Anderson
Has anyone managed to get Haiku to run in Virtualbox? I selected the ISO and hit "Start", then it gives me this error message: The virtual machine 'Haiku' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1). Running it as Headless or Detachable Start gave the same error. Any ideas?
Nah just not reasonable, everyone knows google gives the best results for everything, even stallman admits himself sometimes to using google on very few occassions, plus every search engine is a botnet so nothing lost. At least I use icecat.
Ian Nguyen
Stallman doesn't use Google.
Xavier Evans
why do you think it gives the best results?
Brody Rivera
>stallman admits himself sometimes to using google on very few occassions
Youre misquoting me.
Anecdotally ggd gives me shit when I compare it with google
Xavier Cook
If I wanted to edit a cmake to point to the right .so file for installation, which file would I edit? It seems to be written to /usr/local/lib/ as opposed to /usr/lib/ where it is stored on my system.
Mason Hall
Which is better for a persistent live install, Ubuntu or Arch? I've had experience with both and don't necessarily prefer one to the other, but was mainly concerned with the speed of them. My kali usb still feels a bit slow compared to booting off an SSD.
Isaiah Perez
Puppy Linux. Neither Ubuntu nor Arch are meant to be primarily run from a live disk. That's why we have Puppy.
Does the memory footprint help? I always figured the slowness came from the read/write speeds of the drive.
Jack Collins
Google gives you good results because it spies you mong.
Lucas Ward
Knoppix,Slax,Puppy,SlitaZ
Jayden Wilson
No, I have not, at least with CLI ffmpeg. Obs does have the option to use an ffmpeg output while recording, but it doesn't have one for streaming. Even then, the video comes out blurry. The only reason I'm using obs is for ease of streaming. I'm trying to use Windows less and this is one of the main things I want to settle. Maybe it's something dumb that I'm missing or just how obs is handled on debian Sid. I have no problems with it on Windows.
Is there a GNU/Linux alternative to portableapps or something similar?
Jonathan Campbell
Appimages
Matthew Cook
Thanks
Mason Sanchez
> useless 3rd party ubuntu / arch / debian spins > fucking mint > unflattering audio, camera angle, lights Apply yourself, user.
Kayden Scott
Any suggestions for data recovery tools for a dumb user that accidentally rm -rf'd the wrong directory? i havent re-written any new data to the hdd that got wiped so in theory the data can still be possible to recover right? Ext4 partition if that matters. The total filesize should also be only around less than 100gb on a 1tb drive.
Gabriel Jenkins
Just restore from your backups.
Evan Gomez
Good thread.
Evan Brooks
i heard that getting autocad or any other proper cad software running on Stallman/Torvalds systems is pretty tedious or straight out impossible is there any hope if i would like to do so?
Levi Foster
I use gentoo
Brody Edwards
testdisk photorec dd-rescue Booting from a live usb of course
Noah Long
What is the best Anime for Linux?
Mason Scott
I have specified --disable-gtk-doc but its spent the past 6 hours compiling in "gtk/docs/reference" What the fuck is gnome doing now?
Owen Cooper
I don't wanna slander BRL or VariCAD folks as not "proper", but not really for the big brands. The API support is non-trivial to do as a VM or WINE, and nobody is going spend 4~5 figures on the AutoCAD license + vendor blessed GPU and then not shell out $150 for the vendor supported OS.
Easton Moore
>testdisk >photorec I was trying out photorec which seems to might have worked but ill try out dd-rescue aswell while im at it, thanks user.
Michael Powell
Restoring from backups is much better. Why won't you listen?
>keeping file browsing in the file browser instead of in the web browser yep, ridiculous
Liam Cooper
So you want a html browser, a javscript browser, a dynamic content browser, a media browser....
Justin Myers
When will Arch meme me for real?
>this morning do pacman -Syu >ffmpeg updates, kool >in the evening try playing a vid, oh shit mpv whines about different ffmpeg >do pacman -Syu again and get new mpv So I guess there would've been a very short span of time where I would have not been able to use mpv but it got resolved pretty quickly.
Owen Bailey
Trying to install a linux on a 2012 MacBook Pro. Everything works fine except wifi.
I don't have trouble initially installing wifi on any distro, but after a little bit it stops. It still shows it's connected, but no data gets through. Turning off/on wifi works for a little bit, then it fades out again. F*cking broadcom.
Any anons with a fix? I've tried *buntus and Fedora.
Jaxon Garcia
Did you use broadcom firmware or open source firmware?
Sebastian Gonzalez
>where I would have not been able to use mpv Use mpv-build-git
Cooper Ortiz
But I don't want to drag and drop? Isn't there a way to make the browser use the thumbnail viewer?
Zachary Morgan
FUCKING INSTALL THE GOD DAMN PATCHES YOU FUCKING [spoiler]INVALID[/spoiler] Seriously you could have solved your problem yesterday
Dominic Smith
You really are a complete idiot. I'm not going to stop posting about it until I know how to do it.
Gabriel Campbell
How's sound editing on Linux? Are JACK and ALSA decent? I've seen Reaper being ported to Linux, but how are native Linux DAWs?
Andrew Barnes
Linux is a kernel.
Gavin Richardson
how does one run Windows games under WINE if they don't require installation and consist of an already working directory of exe and dll's?
Gavin Williams
Thanks for nothing, asshole. All idiots here, please don't reply to me.
Jace Gonzalez
$ wine botnet.exe
Tyler King
but can I do it through PlayOnLinux?
Eli Gray
Please stay friendly and professional.
Juan Jackson
any KDE fags in here? how do I get rid of this thing?
ovpn-update-resolv[23875]: Options error: Unrecognized option or missing or extra parameter(s) in /etc/openvpn/update-resolv.conf:16: [ (2.4.6)
I never touched that conf file how do I fix it everything works but I still dont like how often I see it in my log
Connor Myers
>idiots please don't reply to me.
Jonathan Ward
Then fucking learn how to do it? No one here is going to hold your hand. Google how to fucking apply patches. what the fuck do you want? Someone to ssh in to your fucking terminal and do it for you? You are the single most worthless person i have ever seen in my life. You have your answer from yesterday, you even linked the fucking patch in your own post. FUCKING APPLY THE PATCH
Eli Cruz
I installed ZeroBrane but when I run it via rofi or command line, it does nothing. How do I run it?
Using Arch with i3.
Dominic Ortiz
sauce?
Justin Taylor
disgustingroast.com
Ian Powell
Alexandr Mavrin, the most talented photographer I know by name
Dabbling a little into sound, is perfect if you want to dive deep. Jack is considered a professional sound system too but I don't know much about it.
Wyatt Ramirez
>not managing your mirrorlist with one easy command.
Ayden Green
So? How does that prove you're not a braindamaged sperglord? You have severe mental issues dude.
Carson Young
My filechooser is patched :)
Nathaniel Hughes
and yet you're a braindamaged idiot. Ouch.
Austin Garcia
How about low latency issues I've heard Linux sound module implements low-latency without patching the kernel
Gavin Rodriguez
in bspwm, if i have two programs open in the same workspace the most recently launched one gets permanent focus for some reason. the old program has a little shadow at its side because it's "behind" the new program. so any sxhkd keybinding only affects this newly opened focused program that i can't switch focus from. does anyone know how to fix this in the config
Is a step-by-step guide if you want to squeeze to the last bit with custom patches. Some good recommendations there.
Nolan Reyes
Reminder to # tune2fs -m your ext4 filesystem from the default 5% reserved block count.
Christian Perry
Just get a realtime kernel(zen,ck,pf) and you should be good
Juan Allen
This is a really badly informed advice. I do not need a realtime kernel, realtime kernels are needed when industrial robots or lasers are involved, they do not necessarily reduce audio latency.
Camden Lopez
You want a real time kernel to do music production. You want a realtime kernel if you want high quality low latency playback. ALSA,JACK and PULSE all support real time kernels and optimize for it