/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

You mean Linux?

never had problems with it using recent kernels (maybe ~2018Q2 and newer)
i had a ricer setup with two external drives pooled with maximum compression and deduplication enabled but i removed the other drive to use it for something else (even that didn't eat my data)
i run this occasionally:
#!/bin/sh
root="$(dirname "$0")"
duperemove \
-rdAhv \
--hashfile="$root/.hashfile" \
--dedupe-options=same \
"$root" | \
grep -ve '^Skipping small file '

Yeah, it's Hurd

Is there any reason I should really be avoiding systemd? I'm using the latest manjaro with no issues, but there seems to be a lot of hate on here for systemd.

Im installing gentoo guys what DE would you recommend? preferably KDE thanks

gnome 3. dig into the tweaks app and the shell extensions like dash to dock. It's very comfy.

no. It's just layer of abstraction that gives additional metadata to init services so they can be managed properly. And people hate it because a) it's not open source and b) they can't just drop boot scripts in init.d and have em work anymore.

how is MATE? its GNOME based right? this is my first time with gentoo so i'd prefer something light

>it's not open source
???

what is the bottle of lotion for? So he can rub it on his toes while he speaks?

MATE is nice if you want the gnome 2 experience. They renamed a lot of the gnome 2 components to weird names though, imho. It feels like a futile fork.

I don't trust everything, I mostly only install popular packages from there

the one i use (xfce)

This guy is fit, no wonder he's the poster boy for Jow Forums

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reminder to install cdrtools

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how does rms even look like that? does he exclusively eat fast food and spend his nights drinking?

i'm an underweight hikkineet and i use void btw

Bros, I was installing a package the thing finished completely (emerge --ask blabla) but then we had a blackout I instantly booted it up and all seems fine but is it? Do you think it could have affected the install? sorry bad english im russian

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He's a retard. Ignore.

i was going to mention how fucking fat he's become over the years. he was never not fat but now he's landwhale tier.

stallman is going to have a heart attack soon.

Will the GNU operating system ever be finished if he dies?

you think he actually writes code these days? i always assumed he was just replying to e-mails in those pictures of him on his laptop.

If it finished then it finished.

Why does he need a fucking lotion?

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>Btrfs
Deprecated.

>~ /backup
Are you backing up your home directory to your home?

You mean GNU/Linux?

what's the program called people used to make these when image upload died?

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Is he preggo?

wasn't he supposed to lose weight?

Else he gets the hose again.

Where can I learn to use CentOS and get to know how to set servers? I want to become a Systems Engineer.

Why is my free memory so damn high?

Just get a $3 vps and make a hobby public project.

Alright, do i then just get some books to setup CentOS servers and boxes?

why does it take 200 years to install anything on gentoo?

He has been known to lotion his feet while giving talks. I'm not joking.

Specifically (can't paste because different PC):
memory in MB: 3944 total, 110 used, 3711 free, 0 shared, 122 buff/cache, 3651 available
Why is Free even more than Available?

I’ve been messing around with Ubuntu for a while ans I’ve gotten pretty used to it. My MX500 SSD comes in today but I’m unsure if I should install GNU/Linux on it. I’ve read some reviews for it on Amazon and some people have been complaining that the OS runs slower on it. Is this true?

That's a technique abusing unicode braille characters. There are many implementations; fire up a search engine which respects your privacy or search on github.

Wish I could be that relaxed while public speaking

arch linux logo looks like a star trek badge
further proof arch users are fucking dorks

wtf I love arch linux now

How can I have a window that displays the newest image in a folder as new images are added?
Imagine there's a webcam taking images every five seconds and storing them in a folder. I'd want to be able to watch it like cctv.
That's not my actual use case but I think it makes it more clear what I'm trying to do.

>search shithub
>find project
>read issues for the lulz
>see anti-gpl fags raiding
>shake head
>close tab
Enough github for today.
github.com/asciimoo/drawille/issues/6

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>Israel
A jew wants proprietary-friendly license like BSD so he can freely incorporate OSS into his shitty jewish spyware and give nothing back.

Well, nothing new there.

>It's the joos
Got lost?

Which distro should I use if I want something light and use Matlab, AutoCAD, and Python? And the basics like transcoding/rendering and watching videos?
I've tried Ubuntu already but I feel like it uses a lot of memory doing nothing. Just go back to windows?

I get a handful of annoying graphic issues with KDE,(especially full screen programs fucking up my desktop, even with allow applications to disable compositor turned off) I have an old nvidia card and I think that they don't play nice together, would a different DE potentially fix this or is it something with the kernel? kubuntu btw

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Can someone in to me python virtualenv?
Some progam i want to run needs a specific version of a library and my system package has been updated, while other programs want the new library.
Is there some scripts to automate this or some easy aliases to dumb this down a bit?

There's a space there, it goes to /backup. Though usually I do add the date to the backup.

try xubuntu or ubuntu-mate

If you aren't going to install your software on the SSD you might as well return it. Loading stuff faster is the whole point of an SSD. Amazon reviews can be retarded. Though you should check that you didn't get sold a defective or heavily used SSD that claims to be new. Which is a thing.

I don't quite understand licenses. GPL just means you can't distribute the code in closed source projects? Doesn't most free software disallow that?

Stop noticing things

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xubuntu or linux mint XFCE version
if you want a more detailed explanation as to why, just ask(xubuntu works with XFCE also)

but why is this any different from apt anyway?

who gives fuck about some license. stupid niggers dont even know im using their shit so what are they gonna do eh ?

they can say all they want, nobody is enforcing so they can suck my dick

That's the whole point of using Gentoo

Literally nothing.

literally what's the point of SWAP if it just makes everything unusable and I can't nuke what needs closing then relatively quickly unload everything back into RAM?
I'd rather just crash and restart at this point.

how to make sure wine is launching with dedicated gpu? I have tries a couple of games which prompt with errors suggesting that my gpu is not even being detected.

Probably depends on your image viewer. I'm sure there's some way to hack mpv to do that. You could also use a terimal image viewer like tiv (there are better ones that can do full resolution, but tiv jus werks.)

>while true; do tiv -a `ls -t|head -1`; sleep 1; done

SWAP is necessary for hibernation. Although hibernate doesn't seem to work by default on my linux distro so I might delete my SWAP partition anyway.

If you're up to it you can save the resources of having to constantly check for updates by using inotify.
Only when the directory is updated will it run the code, check for the latest file, display it, and then idle again until a new file is added.

OOM exists, its very leinent by default(some 2 minutes on most distros). Chance it to 10s and you wont have a problem with stalled shit,it will kill it right away.

thanks lad

Why?

>Doesn't most free software disallow that?
Free software licenses are either copyleft (what people call restrictive) or not (what people call permissive). Many, or most common free software licenses such as MIT and BSD are permissive and allow binary only redistribution.

I personally think the wording "permissive / restrictive" is misleading - from a point of view of a developer who wants to take free code and make it proprietary, surely the GPL feels restrictive, but from the point of view of the software, "protection" may be a better word to describe it; protection that makes sure the program and its redistributions will stay free - my thought.
This permissive/restrictive thing is basically the source of the license wars.

Elementary or Ubuntu with gnome?
Is the only real difference the looks or is one better in terms of functionality and speed?

Does anyone know if there's a way to block 4ch*n porn ads on qutebrowser

look for some greasemonkey scripts. imo qutebrowser is slow and so barebones. i use firefox with tridactyl and its fine

Can someone help me get started on creating my own theme? I have a few installed and I'm running xfce but other than that I'm lost on how it should be approached.

>Elementary

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Is it okay to run Linux Mint's software manager as sudo -H? I want to use sudo so I don't have to do the password prompts later in the program.
sudo -H mintinstall
People recommend against running GUI programs directly with sudo due to potential root file ownership issues:
askubuntu.com/questions/270006/
Is the -H flag enough to safeguard against this problem?

Is there anyone on this board who uses Pop OS?
Why?
Why not?

xfce has decent documentation on their website

Mint babby here, everything just werks. Is there anything wrong with using Mint as your daily driver? For some reason Mint doesn't have the "cool" factor around here and everything has to be as difficult and minimalist as you can be.

Should I move "up" to the cooler distros and work my way up to the install gentoo meme or is there no shame with something that "just werks"

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>using downstream distros
>ever

no, if you want to tinker with arch or gentoo put it in a vm or on a spare laptop, mint or ubuntu make fine daily drivers, no reason to make your life harder just for neckbeard points especially if you're happy with your current set up

is there any way to post these in current year?

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thanks famarino, i found it.

just do what you're comfortable with, and don't get yourself frustrated and quit.

Use hostfile based blocking

Can't install ubuntu, in the boot screen selecting either install or try ubuntu just goes to a black screen.
i have a e585, please explain slowly

Do what you are most comfortable with and makes you happy. There's nothing wrong with Mint as your 'daily'; you don't have to move to a different distro if you don't want to. If you want to use Mint, use Mint - it's totally fine and there's nothing wrong in doing so. Ignore the distro elitism, just use what makes you happy.
>t. Ubuntu 18.04LTS user, formerly Debian and Slackware

how do I do that

says the ubuntu cuck.
btw i use arch

>Friendly GNU/Linux Thread
>Friendly

>Friendly
well i didn't tell you to kys, did i?

Just got a raspberry pi 3 for christmas. Not sure what OS to put on it? Should i do raspbian? Or is this my chance to try gentoo? sum1 halp, pl0x

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Upgrading from ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10 was absolutely disastrous for me. I went years without my OS crashing (while using 16.04 and 18.04) to crashing multiple times a week.

After a failed update i had to select an older kernel version on startup to even be able to boot.
Pretty sure it fucked an encrypted drive of mine at the same time but i'll never know if I just forgot the password, since i didn't have it written down. No backup so it's all lost.

Weeks later and i'm now totally locked out of my OS due to another crash as it has made the other kernel version not function too. GOing to try unlocking it from another boot drive and copying my files off rather than trying to fix the install which is clearly totally fucked.

If anyone has advice on maybe getting my files back from the encrypted drive or on a better distro to use please say. I feel like dumping ubuntu now even though i probably would have been fine if i stayed on LTS.