/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread - HAPPY NEW YEAR EDITION

What are you stupid? The sun revolves around the earth.

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based and truthpilled

What the fuck happened to the “friendly” in /fglt/ this past week

Christmas mood

# cursed command
find . -printf '%T\n'

I thought your image was giygas

So apparently Vivaldi doesn't support video playback on youtube on Linux. How do I get around this?

help.vivaldi.com/article/html5-proprietary-media-on-linux/

Gravmass*

>kde
>no programs open
>open Firefox, play a YouTube video
>40-60% cpu usage
>happens in chrome/chromium too
Is this normal? Or somethings wrong. Processor is kaby lake i5 7300u.

also no dGPU. Laptop is an x1 carbon.

So I'm configuring i3 and whenever I reload the config ($mod+shift+r) I lose my workspaces and everything gets bundled together on workspace 1
help

Linux browsers has no hardware acceleration so decoding videos is pretty bad

Q: How do I install a source-based distro on a computer that's too shitty to comfortably compile stuff? I tried to install gentoo, but every time I try to build a single software package I have to wait anywhere from 30mins to a few hours, and every time I try to rebuild the kernel, I have to do it at night so that it can be the last thing I do before I go to bed, so that it'll be done when I wake up -- and, one time, I woke up and it *still* wasn't done .

>with senpai
>using phone tethering
>decide to install void
>reboot
>no wifi
>void wiki is down
God is dead

Greetings and happy new years eve to everyone.
I have a problem...
I am new to Linux Ubuntu OS, as a matter of fact i just installed it yesterday and i am IN LOVE. It is the best experience i have had with computers. The problem i have is... im trying to copy or drag a .pdf document to my e-reader onyx boox 10.3. When the file is in folder [download] there is no problem at all i can view the document just fine, but when i copy it to the boox note, it changes to a 'binary'? document. I cannot view it and i cannot upload it to my boox. Please anyone? help? I am preparing everything for my return to college. Image related.

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so you're saying it's normal? I feel like it's definitely higher than it was on my last install of manjaro i3. I used to be able to play a video and the CPU would sit around 10-15%.

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What happens when you cp the file over?

It depends...
If i drag the document over, it shows the 'error while copying' pop up.
If i alt+c copy it and alt+v paste it inside the folder, it creates this ''binary'' document>_<
I think it may be that the boox note only supports files uploaded from windows? Can that be possible? Because with windows I could do this operation just fine

What happens if you run

cp $1 $2

Where $1 is the current location of the file and $2 is the location you want the file at?

ironically, "user-friendly" programs such as file managers with GUIs are typically even worse at being functional because they have more points of failure and deliberately prevent the user for performing basic tasks without the application.
anyways, just use mv [file] [destination] in the command line, and learn to use a better file manager like ranger, or better yet, learn how to use terminal to perform basic file operations. trust me, you'll actually save a lot more time.

Ok im guessing thats to be done at the terminal? I havent tried that

>learn how to use terminal
naw fuck that, dont bother is useless

how do i get firefox to use pcmanfm for the file picker? I tried creating a mimeapps.list in two locations but its still not working. the same thing is happening for me in vscode as well.

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Thank you so much ! As i said I'm new to Linux and i will learn how to perform simple tasks like these and I hope it works

I am testing mksh and wanted to see if it supported brace expansions. According to mywiki.wooledge.org/BraceExpansion doesn't supports sequence expansion but when I type
mkdir {directory1,directory2}
It fucking works, what the fuck is sequence expansion then?

second example on the linked page

read the page you linked
{word1,word2} is expansion and {start..end} is range
i use oksh btw

Fuck me I need to use glasses, thanks
>i use oksh btw
Any reason to use this over mksh?

i chose it based on the filesize

>mtp://
Odds are your device's MTP implementation is just fucked. A lot of "MTP" devices only work with Windows or Mac, and even then only with specific versions. Try a command line MTP thing (jmtpfs or whatever) and watch your dmesg / autidctl output.

WTF why does that eat all my memory up?
GNU fix your shit

nigga the only reason i am here is not because i think actually free software is superior to bought one, but because i am a cheap thirdworlder who is too lazy to pirate win7, my copy was given to me as a present with my pc from my cousin (who might have pirated it) i am giving it to my family because they are too tech iliterate to pirate it themselves

i am only here because your shit OS is FREE, 100% that and nothing else, thats why i said i want a distro that just werks and is comfy, if it cant even do that then your os shit, if you need to learn to use a terminal its also shit

understood?

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Any good sites for rare fonts

int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/

s/auditctl/journalctl

I just get '%\n' printed over and over again, what's it supposed to do?

$ find . -printf '%T\n'
find: unrecognized: -printf
BusyBox v1.29.3 (2018-11-28 01:36:15 UTC) multi-call binary.

%T expects another character, in this situation, it's \n, so it prints \n.
>%Tk
> File's last modification time in the format
> specified by k, which is the same as for %A.
Install GNU.

Happy GNU/Year everyone!

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you fell for the gentoo meme, dumb arse

$ worldclock() {
{
tz="America/Los_Angeles"
printf -- '%s %s\n' "${tz}" "$(TZ=${tz} date +'%F %T %::z %Z')"
tz="America/Chicago"
printf -- '%s %s\n' "${tz}" "$(TZ=${tz} date +'%F %T %::z %Z')"
tz="America/Mexico_City"
printf -- '%s %s\n' "${tz}" "$(TZ=${tz} date +'%F %T %::z %Z')"
tz="America/New_York"
printf -- '%s %s\n' "${tz}" "$(TZ=${tz} date +'%F %T %::z %Z')"
tz="America/Sao_Paulo"
printf -- '%s %s\n' "${tz}" "$(TZ=${tz} date +'%F %T %::z %Z')"
tz="Europe/London"
printf -- '%s %s\n' "${tz}" "$(TZ=${tz} date +'%F %T %::z %Z')"
tz="Europe/Berlin"
printf -- '%s %s\n' "${tz}" "$(TZ=${tz} date +'%F %T %::z %Z')"
tz="Europe/Moscow"
printf -- '%s %s\n' "${tz}" "$(TZ=${tz} date +'%F %T %::z %Z')"
tz="Asia/Kolkata"
printf -- '%s %s\n' "${tz}" "$(TZ=${tz} date +'%F %T %::z %Z')"
tz="Asia/Hong_Kong"
printf -- '%s %s\n' "${tz}" "$(TZ=${tz} date +'%F %T %::z %Z')"
tz="Asia/Singapore"
printf -- '%s %s\n' "${tz}" "$(TZ=${tz} date +'%F %T %::z %Z')"
tz="Asia/Tokyo"
printf -- '%s %s\n' "${tz}" "$(TZ=${tz} date +'%F %T %::z %Z')"
tz="Australia/Sydney"
printf -- '%s %s\n' "${tz}" "$(TZ=${tz} date +'%F %T %::z %Z')"
} | column -t
}

NixOS or GuixSD.
They're kind of hybrid source-based/binary-based distros.

The core of it is completely source-based.
However, due to the functional nature of the package managers 2 machines usually produce completely bit-for-bit identical binaries when compiling. So they take advantage of that fact and offer binary downloads (because you get exactly the same result), and you keep all the benefits of source-based distros.
So by default they search for an available binary (with the right hash). If it's available you download it, if it's not available then you compile it.

NixOS is probably a better choice for this at the moment because it's more stable. On GuixSD you'll end up compiling more stuff.

this faggot again
I built some things from source but couldn't install them (and then found them on the official repository anyway)
1. How do I locate and remove this bloat?
2. For future reference, how do I install what I build?
>tfw I'm spending my new year's ricing for the first time

stop ricing

github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b4061a10fc29010a610ff2b5b20160d7335e69bf

Docky or cairo-dock?

what we freetarians consider free, is free as in freedom not free as in beer

Happy year/linux everyone!

expecting unix-like to behave like dos-like is stupid

thats gay

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free beer is still great, though

read how to enable hardware acceleration in your distro+browser

I'm dual booting linux and windows but am primarily using linux now. How do i make it so I can write to the drives that were used with windows? It seems like there's some sort of write protection

have you installed ntfs-3g?

yeah it says it's already installed

well despite it saying that it seems to work now after trying it again uhh thanks i guess

FUCK JANNIES!
2019 YEAR OF THE GNU/LINUX DESKTOP!

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OMG HE FELL FOR THE MEME HAHABHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

don't use i3 anymore, but I think it's normal behavior

i'm getting this message at boot. running fsck, it says the partition is clean so i force the fsck and it says it fixed something. after a reboot, this message reappears

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mounting root as rw, i was able to get through, but it gives this error message. what's going on?

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The ext superblock got mangled. Recover from an alternate superblock or boot a live environment to unfuck the fs.

Is there anything like Automator for linux? I just want to make a program that runs wine, but from a different profile depending on what I want. Something like this:
>right click
>run on wine-games
>run on wine-dotnet
Etc. On Mac I could easily do that with automator. But anything really that let's me run a program but running some other commands before and being able to trigger it by right-clicking is enough.

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People still use lilo?

install gentoo

Not really, when I was configuring mine I had 3 ws open.

If you like right clicking in GNU/Linux, get OpenBox. OpenBox loves right clickers.

I couldn't even install fedora, m8. I just run ubuntu (neon) because I have a ryzen and couldn't be hassled to hackintosh it, less so now that mac is going to the gutter. I doubt gentoo would help me do what I want.

>unfuck the fs
how?

I don't know how bad your situation is, try asking fsck.

simply pull your dick out of her pussy

I don't love right clicking. I want to set it up for this only, so I don't have to type half a dozen commands on the console every time I want to play a game.

it says it's clean. i guess i'll just read up on whatever the heck a superblock is

I was able to fix this problem with wifish and make sure to update before you try to install wifish with xbps-install -Su. To install wifish do: xbps-install -S wifish-1.1.4_1.

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Okay, so there's .desktop applications that I think might work. Unfortunately, it runs on bash scripts which I am not familiar. Suppose I want to run "echo fuck off" before calling "wine program.exe", how would I do that in a bash script, knowing that program.exe would need to be a variable name since it would be called when I right click some windows executable?

Use an alias.

alias wine1='long ass command'
alias wine2='other long ass command'

Is there a decent drive backup application in the Ubuntu/Mint repos? I'm looking for something that can:
>Make an initial backup from a local drive onto a USB HDD
>On the next backup time (in my case the next month) it will compare the local drive with the USB HDD and update the USB HDD appropriately without needing to write an entire image or redo the entire thing

If fsck says the filesystem is fine, it probably is.

This shit looks like it might be just accessing the wrong partition, like a fucked grub config or something.

I think timeshift would work

don't most GUI file managers provide a way to add custom desktop files?

worldclock() {
{
while read tz; do
printf -- '%s %s\n' "${tz}" "$(TZ=${tz} date +'%F %T %::z %Z')"
done

sda1 - efi system partition
sda2 - os x
sda3 - linux, single root
i have refind load the kernel with root=sda3

That's okay, I guess. Trades lots of commands by one, but I'd still like to run my games without having to open the terminal.

Making a desktop file is easy. The thing I don't know how to do is to make it so my .sh script can get the path of the file I am actually trying to execute.

happy happy 4U too

Debloat your kernel and you'll have it compiled in no time

>he pronounces Linux "Linix"

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i don't know what Automator does, but running things under a different wine prefix is as easy as setting the WINEPREFIX environment variable, any FM with the ability make custom menus such as spacefm can be setup with "run in X prefix" buttons

happy happy for you too