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>What distro should I choose?
wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Babbies_First_Linux
>What are some cool programs?
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page
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commandlinefu.com/
cheat.sh/
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mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
grymoire.com/Unix/
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gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
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github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/11255
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=917124
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dbus-daemon[498]: [system] Would reject message, 3 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.13" (uid=0 pid=499 comm="/usr/bin/NetworkManager --no-daemon ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus" member="GetNameOwner" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.DBus" (bus)


Can someone tell me how I can fix this? It's being spammed in log non-stop.

stop using systemd

anyone using ROCK64 as a desktop?

Is there a way to pause a process or slow it down?

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This.

I finally flipped for Fedora.

Any good IDE for linux for C/C++?
I am retarded and i need something that screams at me "ya fuking retard, this pointer is shite".

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Anything that holds your hand more than VS Code will just make you more retarded, you should absolutely understand the basics of compilation and debugging if you're going to use C. Don't use your lack knowledge as an excuse user

i am thinking about going full VIM, but i have to finish assignment till 30. So i have little to no spare time.

Yes.

How?
Encoding with ffmpeg make the CPU temps reach +90 C, I don't care about how long it will take, as long as it doesn't set my house on fire.

help

I'm using Mint. I find the experience mostly satisfactory actually, I think I'm very close to saying goodbye to fucking Windows forever. Most of my computer usage is lurking though, and I have two major annoyances:

1. Is there any way to post a picture from google image directly without saving? In windows I can "copy file location" and paste it in the open address bar when clicking "Browse..." on *chan, and I know Windows saves it to some temp directory avoiding a few clicks to save the picture. Any way to do this on Linux?

2. Again related to "Browse...", when the interface appears, it always shows "details" view, not the thumbnails or any other view, this is extremely annoying to post on chans, especially because over the years I accumulated hundreds of pictures to my main folders, and I need thumbnails to find shit.

Not being able to do these two things will be a dealbreaker and I think I'll just pirate W10 LTBS and be done with it.

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Qt creator.

youtube.com/watch?v=OSFIb7S-9kU

what's wrong with freetards?

Code blocks

>2. Again related to "Browse...", when the interface appears, it always shows "details" view, not the thumbnails or any other view, this is extremely annoying to post on chans, especially because over the years I accumulated hundreds of pictures to my main folders, and I need thumbnails to find shit.

Welcome to Linux

wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/File_Picker_meme

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what's his issue?

just being a megacorp plant to ruin stuff for their competitors

>Encoding with ffmpeg make the CPU temps reach +90 C
Stop being a paranoid idiot.

Why is it such a pain to set up the font for urxvt in .Xresources?

How do I make the fonts on Ubuntu not look like absolute shit? Seriously this operating system is unusable because of these nasty blurry fonts, the fonts look so weird they make me literally cry after a while.

I'm not.
The CPU is old, when encoding it start to throttle making everything slow.
Is there a way to limit the CPU usage of a process?
I don't care if the encoding finish in 5 hours.

what's the issue? I've never seen it much as a pain when using xft

This seriously, what the fuck is up with this shit? How is anyone here uploading epic meymeys to Jow Forums without going insane due to the lack of previews?

Tell me your secrets.

>Is there a way to limit the CPU usage of a process?
idk about limiting but you can set cpu priority with nice

90+ °C won't kill a CPU, but if you want to stop the throttling then I guess you could replace the thermal paste and dust off the heatsink.

I just drag and drop pics from my file manager, I preferred it that way on windows too as it's much easier to navigate as well.

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I want to use Noto fonts in URxvt
Xft.dpi: 141
Xft.antialias: true
Xft.autohint: false
Xft.hinting: true
Xft.hintstyle: hintfull
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault
Xft.rgba: rgb

URxvt*font: xft:Noto Sans Mono:pixelsize=16
URxvt*boldFont: xft:Noto Sans Mono:bold:pixelsize=16
Beside the spacing being fucked up (this seems to be a common issue in urxvt), it somehow displays another font -- e.g. the 0 is not slashed.
The font displays properly on xfce terminal
I'm trying dejavu fonts just to see if somehow I messed up the config

KDE Plasma 5.14 does not have this issue.

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>90+ °C won't kill a CPU
It will accelerate the wear rate of the thermal paste, and This is a laptop CPU.
>replace the thermal paste and dust off the heatsink
Already did this the last month.
Will it slow it down?

URxvt*LetterSpace: -1

Fixes letter spacing at the very least.

lorenzo.mile.si/limiting-cpu-usage-and-server-load-with-ffmpeg/114/

>this actually works
Not sure how the fuck I never heard about this, but it's still pretty inconvenient to always go through the file manager instead of just clicking "browse...".

I'm not sure if I should install KDE on top of Cinnamon though. I actually like Nemo and everything else that's stock on Mint and wouldn't really want to change it.

There is no /hsg/ and there hasn't been one for a long time, so asking here. I'm currently running a debian vm for torrents and tor inside proxmox on my home server, but I've heard LXC containers are more efficient. Would it be a good idea to use an LXC container instead of a full blown VM?

Yeah, but the font isn't right.
Somehow it's better when I use dejavu instead but I can't manage to make it work with noto fonts
text file config is supposed to be easier than scrolling through menus. But for fonts and themes, I prefer GUI
It's all so tiresome.

URxvt.font: xft:Noto Sans Mono:style=bold:size=16

you can set style like this and remove that boldfont line, don't forget to update your settings with >xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

Thanks. I guess my mistake was to use URxvt*font instead of URxvt.font

Serious question, which is more lightweight and will give me better performance: Gentoo or Arch? I was given an old pc with an old CPU and just 2 GBs of ram.

Install SparkyLinux with Lumina DE.

>President of Freedom of the Press Foundation
>hiding out in the one place that hates free press more than anyplace else on Earth
>uses proxies and Tor and other services just to get his message out
>fucking stupid people will be the death of us all

"All part of the plan..." 'cause if the U.S. Government really *really* wanted Snowden in custody it would be done in hours if not minutes.

I mean he can do interviews with celebrity interviews live face to face, it would be stupidly idiotic to think the three-letter agencies of the world don't know exactly where Snowden is 24/7 and could snatch him any given moment.

It's all part of the plan, folks...

>Gimp has had the 'segfault on font scroll' bug for six years now and it's still unfixed

Free software is a joke.

Is there a way to make pacman separate the package you wish to install and its dependencies when it askes you to confirm the operation?

Great pic OP

If you can set LXC go for it they use less system resources

It already does that by default.
When a program/package gets installed it gets split into different folders: /usr/bin for binaries, etc.

I mean when it asks you if you want to confirm an install it just puts all the packages in one big list. Its just a pet peeve but I would like it to list the packages I want and then separate the dependencies with something like , " requires these : [insert dependencies here] "

AFAIK, you'd have to edit the PKGFILE for that.

I'll look into that. Thanks.

Speaking of sabotage to the Linux community...

Months ago I acquired a free iMac from like 07-09 around there because someone was gonna throw it out. Figured I'd go balls deep since 1. it has a real old version of osx and to get it to the last one it can use looks to be a pain in the ass cuz appstores and shit) is there any specific distro more adaptive to the hardware of this thing? I've done live discs but it didn't seem to want to work with the wifi and I think some other things.

Accidentally deleted a whole bunch of files cuz I was in the wrong directory and didn't pay attention. Sucks there is no `undo` command.

I rm -rf * 'ed my root directory once, THAT was fun.

github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/11255
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=917124
fucking hell

Windows doesn't have this problem.

Devuan doesn't have this problem.

PCLinuxOS doesn't have this problem.

it literally fixes if you remove the "quiet" option lmao

It has a lot of other problems, though.

Posted from my macbook with "burning" retina display running "dusty keyboard" Mojave

Does xfce suffer from gtk-file-chooser problem? I want to upgrade my distro from 32 bit mint cinnamon to something else, but dunno if I should pick KDE or xfce.

Anyone tried one of these? wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/Distributions

It has the worst distro name ever problem tho.

All I want is a distro that does the following:
works well with a stylus. I have a yoga 730. IT's got a stylus.

Give me a distro that works well with it and I'll try it. That's literally the only thing stopping me from moving over.

Anything GNOME or KDE.

You should have said something amongst the lines of, "I finally tipped my Fedora"

I changed the type of a lukes encrypted partition by accident, I thought it was an LVM and applied changes in Debian installer. I haven't mounted it or written in any way aside from the partition change. How can I recover the data? I don't know if the headers are completely fucked beyond repair or if I can just regenerate the data with the same password, I mean it should work as the encrypted data is intact.

probably the gnome classic session or kde. vanilla gnome wouldn't do it because it's meant to be use with the keyboard. It isn't really a mouse interface. But try by yourself

Spotify Linux desktop app and web version (Firefox) are REALLY quiet and compressed on high quality, volume barely pushes past 50% in the pavucontrol visualizer. Played the same songs from CD through Clementine and the volume was much louder and the quality was much clearer (probably only because it was louder).

Does anyone know why? Is there anything I can do about it?

should I go with realtime TRIM (discard option in fstab) or a weekly cron fstrim

I can't get linux/gentoo/alsa to recognize that my USB audio interface has an input too.
The interface is a behringer UMC22.

Audio output works (although only one application can play audio at a given time, that's another issue.)
Alsamixer only shows one output, no input. However, readng /proc/asound/pcm shouws "playback 1" and "capture 1", so it's detecting... something.
How do I get this shit to work? I have the applicable kernel modules enabled, too

here's an image, if it helps clarify.

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the one i'm using

Do you mean you have a umc22 too?
I chose it because it was cheaper than the focusrite scarletts and people online said it worked well on linux.
I guess it works well, just not on gentoo apparently.

i was just shitpostig

Sorry friend, but even with the same password the headers would be different.

weekly: trimming too often wears out the drive.

Just name your images retard

There are a lot of things you can try. Play around with the font settings, try changing the sub pixel order, try installing and using wind*ws fonts if you are too used to them. In most cases it is this that's actually the problem.

I have to enable fstrim.timer right? not fstrim.service?

nvm

you have to increase the niceness.
when you use your favorite top program (like htop) there's a way to increase and decrease "niceness", increasing niceness does what you want.

I-It was just 200GB of music, porn, some books and anime, heh n-nothing important. I thought it was like the Anaconda or Ubuntu installer from red hat that lets you see how to partition and doesn't do it until you hit install. I read the first sectors of the partition with dd but there wasn't anything from luks.
>T-thanks Debian

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really? I want to do that to Nautilus and apt/dpkg by default, it consumes a fucking lot of CPU usage. So much that the screen stutters and other processes may stutter a bit.

yeah. niceness is from back in the day when multiple people had to share the same computer. if your queued program/simulation wasn't very important you could voluntarily increase the niceness and give priority to other people's work.
to do this on htop you would press F8 which is labeled "Nice +".

I suggest you backup the luks header in the future. Sorry fren.

Dont use shitty quality compressed streaming bullshit

Shit, I'm gonna backup mine later today.

Install ananicy. It is a set of preconfigured config files that change the nicenes levels of programs dynamically as they are spawned.
You mention your package manager taking over your system, it will change the niceness to that of a background service,effectivly, allowing your desktop to be more responsive and interactive.
If you want to take it to another level, you can install a real time kernel such as the zen or ck patchset of linux which increases interactivty even further vs the mainline kernel

How do I add a bunch of sub tracks to an mkv? I tried using mkvmerge -o * in the directory with just an mkv and a bunch of srt files and it muxed them all into a single container, ffprobe shows all the tracks, yet when I play the file with only the English subtitle track appears

Okay so I saw you people arguing about the GTK file picker and as it happens I need help wrestling with that particular retarded pig.

How the fuck do I get it to sort in the correct order?

By this I do NOT mean directories-first, that's easy (and is also all that comes up when I try to search the web for solutions to this.) I mean that in Firefox the file chooser insists on sorting in ASCIIbetical order, as if it were set to the default C locale. That is, it sorts capitals-first instead of in natural-language. (A, N, Z, a, n, z when I want A, a, N, n, Z, z)

LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8 as are all the LC_* variables. LANGUAGE wasn't set, but setting it and rebooting has made no difference, nor did starting Firefox from a terminal with LC_ALL set. Nothing I can see on my system is using the C locale except the GTK3 file picker. If I fire up Pale Moon (which is GTK2) everything sorts correctly.

Whoops, actual command was mkvmerge -o out.mkv *

you just got gnome'd kid

t-thanks Mozilla

Friendly reminder linuxtubers are on the rise, found another one youtube.com/watch?v=yeGNs_6gmz0

>using systemd

Recommendations for an image viewer or "comic reader" that will read files from a zip?
Mcomix I think works?

i use yacreader for my CBZs

Are your pants on fire?

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it's a flag you can now use with the latest FF.
but i found it was letting me see the memes but was messing up the upload and it wouldn't save the filename as by default, so might need some tweaks before people should use it.

phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Firefox-Native-Open-Save
You'll need some xdg desktop portal packages and set an environment variable.

this person here again I fixed the "only one thing can play audio at a time" by removing the drivers for the Intel/Motherboard HDA from the kernel.

I still can't find my microphone in alsamixer.
Do I need to define a device by hand in asound.conf or something? Will that fix it?