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I'm out getting some stuff real quick but if this thread stays up, I have an older HP laptop at home and it currently has win7 and i wanted to replace that with a linux distro. Any ideas for which one normally works well for older laptops like that?
Jace Smith
How old? Probably anything will do. Xfce and LXDE are the most lightweight normal gag DEs. Any distro will do, I like Debian.
Avoid Gnome.
Asher Butler
I run arch on my 10 year old HP laptop.
Jayden Ross
Not really. I made the last thread without pasta.
Brody Jones
About 8 years but it seems to have shit itself and stopped working when i wasn't looking
Hudson Butler
Didn't know, thanks.
Leo Bailey
Read the thread loser.
James Powell
Is Android free software or proprietary software?
Alexander Scott
While the base is technically free, the end product is bundled with proprietary software. So both definitions are correct. I like to refer to such software as "open source".
James King
It's open source but includes a lot of proprietary shit. Your phone manufacturer probably included even more proprietary shit with it. Basically all apps in the store are proprietary spyware. Consider using LineageOS os ReplicantOS.
Adrian Gomez
Base Android code is free software. However Android on commercial devices is full with crapware like -proprietary software like google apps -proprietary kernel modules (usually used for wifi, graphic acceleration and suck) -binary firmware blobs (for wifi too) -locked/proprietary bootloader In addition to hardware botnet like the GSM chip having full ring -1 access to your RAM and storage.
Dylan Miller
Thanks. Another question, whats the phones state that works with free software (librem something?) Is it usable? Or short: is it possible to use a phone in freedom?
Ethan Evans
Yes, it is possible. Librem 5 was designed to work 100% with free software. LineageOS is mostly free software but uses binary blobs for wireless stuff. ReplicantOS might not have wireless stuff working besides GSM.
Juan Davis
Is it a rule of thumb that Linux offers worse power management on laptops compared to Windows?
Juan Jenkins
KInda of. Manufactures don't usually go out of their way to support power management on gnu/linux. But gnu/linux is very good at resource usage so it's not unusual to get a better battery life, rule of thumb is that if the hardware is not super new or weird energy consumption will be better than on windows.
Kayden Rodriguez
Opposite actually. Since you can trim down everything to your needs and optimize you can get better results in the long run. Out of the box - I guess not.
Levi Martinez
I need to make a script that runs a command every time my headphones are connected or disconnected to my computer, but I have no idea of what to do, can anyone help me?
Connor Cruz
Hiw can I turn a text file like: >xyz >nothing >nothing >nothing >nothing >nothing >abc into: >xyz >nothing >abc ?
Joseph Wood
uniq
Anthony Flores
That would also trim other instances of abc or xyz, any other solutions that only deal with newlines?
Got a solution, hacky but works: | tr '\n' '\a' | sed 's/\a\a/\a/g' | tr '\a' '\n'
Connor Howard
so you basically want to remove extra newlines between the lines?
Chase Robinson
I've using manjaro kde (n-no bully), but I have an issue where my toaster starts to slow down to the point it's basically unusable, unless I restart plasmashell. I have a laptop with the same os but it doesn't have such problem, but I guess it's because it has amd. Any tips to fix this? Can I switch os or reinstalling without losing all the ricing I've done?
James Flores
>unzip file >files allover my home directory How to unzip a file into a specific directory if it's not zipped as directory?
Blake Ortiz
man unzip There is an option for this.
Levi Davis
The condiga are all in hidden files in your home directory. Should work on any distro as long as it’s the same kde version. The slow down might be a memory leak perhaps related to some weird setting choice or widget.
Cooper Sanchez
Condiga e autocorrect speak for config.
Joseph Murphy
Please re-read my question. In case it's unclear: I want to know how I cancheck if a zip archive contains a directory (safe to extract) or files (in this case, I'd use a specified directory).
Ian Taylor
I don't know how it works, but atool figures it out automatically. atool supports all archive tools you have installed, so instead of calling each program, you just run aunpack . atool is one of my must have tools that get into every new install. *shill* install atool now and get a (You) for free.
lets say I forgot which status bar i installed for i3 How do I uninstall it? and how to a make a new one my default?
Charles Morales
How can I make Nvidia X settings save my display settings for refresh rate? I have a 100 Hz display but on boot the thing keeps resetting it to Auto which puts it at 60 Hz. I've looked in the xorg.conf and it has 100 Hz set there although the program doesn't seem to give a shit.
Jose Garcia
Script? List the archive's contents with unzip, 7zip or whatever you use, grep or otherwise parse results, and then if/else as desired.
Thomas Murphy
If I want to drop all incoming requests/connections from a specific IP, do I have to install some kind of program (iptables/firewall/etc), or is there a way to do this OOB on Debian?
Tyler Hill
No, iptables is out of the box way, should be included in Debian. iptables -A INPUT -s -p tcp -m tcp -j DROP
William Jackson
Oh, shit, yeah. Accidentally didn't write "sudo" before iptables, so it just said command not found. My bad. Cheers.
Cameron Flores
does anyone know how to have tint2 show the mpc now playing, ive tried addys config and nothing shows up ty in advance
how are Etoile and GNUstep related? suppose I install GNUstep based Linux, does this mean I'll have Etoile desktop, or GNUstep has its own desktop implementation and Etoile installs separately?
John Long
unzip -lqq file.zip even better bsdtar tf file.zip | head -1
Advanced users of GNU/Linux (and I mean advanced), remember to try Source Mage GNU/Linux. True source-based distribution, and (in contrast with Gentoo and Arch) is: Free from obfuscated and pre-configured code. Fully committed to GPL, uses only free software (as in freedom) in their main package. With even the documentation licensed as FDL. Without 3rd party patches, sensible defaults or masked packages. Doesn't need obfuscated python libraries, only bash. No systemd (they've implemented their own init scripts system sourcemage.org/Init). Uses clean dependencies as they came from upstream developers, which by the same provides instant updates. Can heal broken installs. Can also use flags.
Do you like Arch Linux's AUR? Do you like Gentoo's portage (or ports-like) package manager? With SMGL's "sorcery" you get all that. Making new spells (package build files) not found in the grimoire (repository of spells) is easy sourcemage.org/Spell/Book
Installing SMGL is easy, here's the simplified process: >boot a live Ubuntu (or whatever) USB drive >go to SMGL website and download compressed archive of the base system >partition and mount partition(s) >extract the archive onto the new partition(s) >chroot, set root passwd, hostname, configure network and locale, write fstab, install grub/lilo >reboot >compile a kernel (preferably the newest stable one from kernel.org) >update sorcery, grimoires and the build toolchain >rebuild the system (hold spells you've already built, so you don't build them twice) The install guide will hold your hand through the whole process sourcemage.org/Install/Chroot Do the chroot method, since the regular live ISO method guide is out of date currently.
>using grub syslinux doesn't have this problem :^)
Alexander Davis
arch should fuck off to the sucksmore braindead GNU hater camp.
Luis Wright
it's a name fgt, just like debian
Carson Mitchell
Is there anyway that I could convienantly grab the text from wolfram mathworld pages in the terminal (i.e. a mathworld terminal) ? If there's no program to do something similar then I guess I will have to learn bash scripting huh.
Also does anyone know of any stardict compatible math dictionaries?
Man, it's a) one billion years old b) GNU is recognized by the community, actually: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNU > Arch Linux is such a GNU/Linux distribution, using GNU software like the Bash shell, the GNU coreutils, the GNU toolchain and numerous other utilities and libraries
I guess the whole autism was just about that retarded (tm) trademark thing.
Thinking about installing Linux on my laptop since I think It'd be fun to learn how to use it. Would Manjaro be a good choice to start off with? My plan would be to use Manjaro for a while before switching to Arch. I prefer rolling releases, also which package manager is the best, pacman or apt? Pros, cons?
David Sanders
>install linux >get propriety software Why did Jow Forums lie to me?
Install Parabola. It's basically Arch, but comes with linux-libre instead of linux and provides a way to blacklist proprietary software if you want. IMHO best libre distro around. Trisquel has the flaw being maintained by just one person and being basically Ubuntu with crap removed. At this point I'd rather go Debian (and ignore the nonfree repo/wiki suggestions).
Brody Scott
How would I >get the output from sudo journalctl -u ssh.service -f >filter (probably with grep?) the output down to just _unique_ IPs >for each unique IP execute sudo iptables -A INPUT -s $IP_HERE -j DROP
I'm an absolute beginner when it comes to bash. I'm somewhat able to do some rudimentary modifications to existing scripts, because of some programming experience, but the syntax is still too foreign to me to create this myself. Any tips/help?
Samuel Phillips
Do you just want to ban faggots bruteforcing your ssh?
Robert Fisher
*free-dora + linux-libre ftfy
Gavin Nelson
So internet worked while in Manjaro Architect installer but now that I’m booted up I have no internet access. I installed both free and proprietary drivers but nothing.
Lspci -v shows my network device. It’s a Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 Ethernet controller. But ip link shows nothing but lo.
What did I miss?
Liam Morris
Sure, but my aim is not to ban them all right now. I'm assuming I should use fail2ban or some other such program for that. Currently I'm just checking the IPs out manually, doing a WHOIS, and visiting their IP on port 80, just to see who they are. Not really doing this for security, but out of curiosity and boredom.
The script would be for when I get bored of checking these IPs, and just want to ban 'em. And when I inevitably find out that this method of banning single IPs is stupid/has downsides, I'll find a way to reverse the effects of the script and go with fail2ban or some shit instead.
Tbh I'm just dicking around for now.
>tfw found a dope phishing site >tfw probably gonna report an IP that tries to bruteforce from the same webhost that I'm using >tfw found some compromised sites that are being zombied for the bruteforces this is cool stuff
Also that kind of script would be interesting to study. I'm pretty sure I could modify it and use it in a bunch of places.
Caleb Cox
KDE should be at around 5.12 or 5.13 on buster, not sure about sid
Adam Kelly
link the old thread faget
Easton Reed
which window manager should I get for linux mint?
Owen Roberts
What's the best distro/DE for a machine with a touch screen? I'm a bit disappointed with how windows implemented it, they revamped their whole appearance to make it touch friendly but it seems they neglected a lot when it comes to functionality.
i have a folder on my file server called bakup, which is where i back stuff up to
Isaac Gutierrez
journalctl -u sshd.service -f | sed -rn 's/.*from (.+) port (.+) .*/\1 \2/p' | while read ip port; do # do whatever echo "ip: ${ip}, port: ${port}" done
>unique IPs You'd have to remove the -f flag to journalctl, then sort -u. Or you could keep an associative array of already seen IPs.
Dylan Cox
Honestly Gnome if you’re a noob.
But you can configure touchscreen gestures with anything using touchegg.