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How to make Firefox stop connecting to firefox.settings.services.mozilla.org?
William Fisher
Is there a good alternative to use for filezilla or should i just use the ftp client in my filemanager(thunar)?
Aaron Cox
I know I’m going to sounds really fucking referred but, how do you install a .tar? I installed the ice cat file and because idk how to do it I just manually open the file.
Chase Parker
.tar or tar.gz or .tgz files are archives, you extract them via $ tar xf archive.tar.gz
Thomas Sanders
Tar is just a thing like zip. It can't be installed as such, it depends on what is inside.
Get an AppImage if you just want to run something, else use your package manager.
Brandon Jones
There are many ftp clients and pretty much all are decent. Use filezilla, your file manager or a cli client or emacs or vim, as you please.
Windows has "portable" applications too, I guess, but they're not called AppImages.
Nolan Sanchez
>using i3 >see a desktop I like >move their i3/config to replace mine >nothing but errors
why Jow Forums
Luis Morales
>try to download PCSX2 for Linux >it's a clusterfuck of old, 32-bit dependencies >no snap or appimage >entire forum threads full of issues and workarounds >some people have broken their desktop environments trying to build it
>download the Windows version instead >run it through Wine >it just works
Wine is just the same clusterfuck of old, 32-bit dependencies.
David Martin
Freetards are often autistic and unaware that others are not the same as themselves They assume everyone using their program is a programmer with the same setup as them so everyone can easily compile their code
Brayden Phillips
I suppose the real question is: Is any distro for these purposes, that I'm likely to bump into while teaching myself, so deprecated that a Sandy Bridge laptop isn't completely supported?
Isaac Nelson
Retard. Appimages is windows style shit and must fuck off. Same with snap, flatpack and all the other shit people embrace.
Alas, if you don't want to use them, don't use them.
Justin Rogers
ABI_X86: -* 64 into package.use for wine, and you only get 64 bit Wine on your Gentoo, no 32bit deps.
Oliver Powell
Hey anons, I've been having a few problems with my setup lately. I've been running a Debian dual boot for awhile and was really enjoying it. A few days ago, though, I got bored and decided to switch from the stable/Stretch branch to the testing/Buster branch for the updated GNOME version and some of the changes that come with that. Ever since I upgraded, though, the software center hasn't been loading. It just gets stuck on pic related. I think I properly updated my sources.list, assuming that's the issue, but maybe not. Any other ideas?
Also, I've been trying to fix the trackpad jumping issue that seems to happen on X220s with no luck. I followed the advice here: bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1264453 previously but it doesn't seem to be giving me any luck this time around. That one might be a better question for /tpg/, though.
Guix can do this too, and with sandboxing if needed. I'd prefer if people would use it instead of appimages.
Josiah Evans
I'll do you one better >using i3 >like my own config >copy it to a fresh install on a new machine >nothing but errors
Justin Edwards
Debian has a software center?
Xavier Allen
Left the window sitting for awhile and had this pop up, so I guess the issue must be in a file separate from the sources.list
Yeah, its installed alongside the base distro. The system uses it for update notifications and as the venue of showing application properties so I really just want it back for that. Hate feeling like something is broken on my machine when it shouldn't be.
>installs gentoo >complains when things are a hassle On sane distributions like any based on debian or arch, you add a repo and install it with a one liner and it just fucking works. If you're on one of the above and are still building it from source, you deliberately made things harder than they needed to be.
Joshua Hill
the distro's walled garden doesn't always provide the software people need
Juan Jenkins
How do I configure DNF so that it only uses HTTPS mirrors?
Samuel Hall
Why would you need that?
Lucas Flores
To avoid things like I prefer having an additional security layer over caching and other performance benefits.
Nolan Hughes
Did you read the link, actually?
James Powell
Any resources for networking on the Linux side? Routing/subnetting/forward all that good stuff.
I have a functional understanding of computer networking but I can’t implement anything from routing tables to firewall configuration. Please help.
Cooper Moore
How to make Bluetooth work on Mint 19?
I'm using blueman trying to connect a pixel 2 xl and Bose wireless earbuds (that need an app to properly connect to my phone, pic related).
Blueman can see the earbuds, but can't connect to them, and I can't get my phone or computer to recognize each other in blueman, the Android Bluetooth client, or the built in client from Mint.
I just got a raspberry pi and i'm using geany to write a simple hello world program. The problem is once i compile, build and execute it i get a terminal window that has nothing in it except the title of the window is sh. I've gotten it to run once before but now nothing works. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
Evan Edwards
OT but what are some good firefox tab management addons other than tree style tabs to use with tridactyl?
>Direct3D 12 support. How do they support dx12? I thought DXVK is for 10 and 11 only. Also, does Wine include DXVK? What about backporting Steam/Proton patches?
David Green
GNU Octave
Jordan Gomez
This is very impressive. Can someone make a new thread for this? I would myself but Jow Forums blocks me from uploading images.
Adam Powell
i recently installed crux and found myself doing a lot of compiling. at least when i was on slackware, there were pre-built packages available from trusted sources. i really don't understand the need to compile a piece of software and its dependencies when i'm not enabling/disabling any features
First this crossboarders basically push Terry in front of that train, and now they kill RMS with a heart attack or a falling toilet or something. Someone must stop them already.
Chase Gray
Anyone know how to get the Nvidia driver to see my internal laptop display over thunderbolt with xorg?
Isaiah Watson
fcitx i think is the recommended method, least it worked for me but didn't really need it much in the end. check the arch wiki.
Dylan Campbell
I've also had some issues with text rendering (pic related, the sliders don't display correctly) and some things don't work properly (chiefly nautilus, the file browser, doesn't want to launch until maybe 5-10 minutes after I boot up)
Still in search of a small program that'll allow a sliding animation for my windows when I switch workspaces. I don't want a bloated DE or have to use the full of tearing compositor Compiz.
Hurray, a new windows emulator version! All windows apps in loonix like never before! HAHAHA xD This so much! Anyone do et!!! OMFG
Isaac Clark
im trying to install arch according to the wiki. its going well enough, but my wifi card was messed up, couldnt ping archlinux.org. okay, so i needed to edit the grub cfg to fix it. okay, i edited it. problem is i cant mkconfig, im told i need to chroot. okay. but i cant do arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash because i havent done pacstrap /mnt base, something i cannot do because my wifi isnt working. so i dont really know what im supposed to do to fix this. i could buy an ethernet cable, but i wouldnt like to have it running 50 ft in my house. im thinking i could rebuild the arch iso with the packages already on it?
it might be something to do with my hard drive. im on a windows 10 pre-installed computer, and i installed windows 7 on top of it. theres a 100mb boot partition, which ive been told is a uefi thing, but fdisk says my hard drive is bios. so im thinking that when i reformatted my drive for windows 7, i switched it to bios mode accidentally. that or my computer (dell inspiron 3650) is very, very strange. this might have fucked it up but i would rather not WIPE my install if i do not have to (i want to do a dual boot for now).
Jacob Morgan
As far as password managers go, is KDE's built in one worth using? Never used one but I'm thinking about trying it out.
Elijah Adams
Put your drivers on the install media before hand You have internet right now, you can download the package and put it on the usb
Gabriel Foster
I'm wondering what Debian does different when deblobbing Linux. Do they use the Linux libre script or do they run their own? Anyone got sauce?
Logan Fisher
My thinking is it might be better to use a DE agnostic password manager. Same with email clients, calendars, etc. But you may have different thoughts than those. Also didn't even know KDE had a built-in one.
Brayden Miller
Looks like shit.
Connor Stewart
It’s still shitposting if you do it ironically fagtron
Henry Watson
Go with KeePass. You get a single DB file that works with many programs,no cloud memes, no shit. There's also an app for Android that supports it.
Brayden Rogers
I should also add that when I follow the prescribed directions for the X220 touchpad issue, it works fine on the lock screen but then reverts back to being jumpy once I log in. So I really have no idea. Don't really understand why it would change like that.
Juan Reed
>Trash Reminds me of Windows. I'm wondering for decades: what's up with that trash bin obsession on Windows desktops?
Wyatt Murphy
My logic was going the opposite way, that it might be more secure than an external program. But I really don't know either way, If there is no difference in security then I'd prefer using it over something else, since it's there either way.
I'm aware KeePassX is a separate thing, is there any difference between the two that would make the non-X one better?
Andrew Collins
Bill put it there, but he had the sense to call it a Recycle Bin, unlike Richard
Joshua Rogers
What's a good image viewer for KDE? Gwenview too complicated and feh is too bare bones.
Kevin Sullivan
i have the 1707 card, and its drivers are listed as being a part of the kernel since 2012. its specifically a PCIe error and dell website says there's realtek drivers for it. i've found some pcie drivers on realtek's website but none of the version numbers match the Dell site and their drivers are for 2.4.x and "up to 4.15" so i might be shit out of luck. on the plus side, i remembered i had an ethernet cable hooked up to something else, so i now i just have to pry the hooks out of the wall!
Jack Kelly
Never mind, I didn't read closely enough and see that non-X is for Windows. That solves that.
Levi Rogers
is there any way how to make a terminal with screenfetch launch on startup, I've only been using Linux for about a week so I'm completely autistic when it comes to this
Is there a way to automatically umount a device when it is at say 98% and then mount another device from a pool of drives? I dont want raid or zfs or unraid or anything like that. I just want to do it nativly within just the os
Mason Richardson
I can move windows around with super + arrow keys on windows 10, how do i emulate this on xfce?