/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

Alternatively if you have a certain model of gigabyte motherboards you will find a iommu option can be disabled in bios

I have a college laptop running windows, thinking about replacing it with either arch or manjaro. Just backup important files and putting either of them on.

yo desktop apps on Linux+GNU are really fucking bad

it’s tricky, that certainly fixed the problem and i really appreciate it however it has seemed to cause the usb ports to go out now and i for some reason completely skip the bootloader now

Which program do you guys use to rip an ISO?

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okay i got the bootloader back to add that in but now once launched to install the ports go out which in turn stops the installation completely

>apps

What do you guys use to run proprietary software and games?
Firejail? Flatpak? Unprivileged LXC containers?

might be related to pulseaudio’s flat-volumes option
or just pulseaudio being shit as usual

abstinence

this looks like a good time
reminds me of quakeworld lans in the mid 90s

im learning bash from this guide in op
mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide/Arrays#Using_Arrays

how do i make an array of all the files from some folder without the folder name in each row?

>ARTICLES=(articles/*)
gives me the literal "articles/" in each row before the file name.

ah nevermind, ill use basename where needed

I got a call from my internet provider that one of my computers is running ssh bruteforce attacks into the web
now i only have windows on my main pc and rest of my computers and gadgets are all linux so i immediately suspected the windows pc, since there aren't really any viruses for linux you can get without being extremely dumbfuck, but it felt strange since i am using antivirus and am not retarded, so i scanned it with nod and mwbytes just to make sure and it came out clean.
so next i went to the most likely suspect, my brother and scanned his windows pc also and .. nothing..
then, i went to my router's web interface to look at the logs hoping to discover some clue to this mystery... and sure as fucking shit, there it was right there
ssh requests outgoing from one ip on my local network to a shitload of random public ip addresses on the internet, all directed at port 22.

That ip belonged to my fucking raspberry pi which is running octopi (a server that runs my 3d printer)
can you fucking believe that shit?
the octopi is hidden behind my router and i never installed any packages onto it except for running the standard sudo apt update & ugrade

unbefuckinglievable

how the fuck did it get infected?

>windows on my main pc
My condolences

I use linux on my server and on my work pc and everything i can, but for leisure activities windows simply blows linux out of the water, for the simple reason that lots of products are released or optimized for windows only
now that windows has linux subsystem support i don't have a single complaint, since i can use linux tools on it
i mean i could do gpu passthrough, but why the fuck would i when the subsystem has all the linux tool i need to use on this pc?

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

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>windows
>antivirus
>not retarded
You probably clicked at some huge and welcoming "Premium Download" button.

please go back to elementary school and learn to read

I am trying to install Ubuntu on a Lenovo T530 i5 without success. The problem is that while the programs (both Budgie and KBuntu) recognize my wifi network, my password keeps getting rejected. I've checked all the references here, on the web sites, and on installgento without success. Anybody have a solution or had this problem?

>Windows reactivated Skype on my computer all of a sudden
AAAAAAAAAAA FUCK YOU, IM INSTALLING LINUX AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Give back the wifi, jamal.

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I currently have ubuntu installed on an ssd and also have 3 other drives. I got a new ssd to install windows on but I don't want to dual boot because that's very bothersome, can I install windows on the new empty ssd and boot into windows only when I choose from the bios or will windows fuck with my other drivers during installation? Do I really need to disconnect everything and plug just the new ssd during installation?

If i put a binary in /usr/local/bin that has the same name as one in /usr/bin, the one in /usr/local/bin will be called instead of the one in /usr/bin?

I have Windows on an SSD. I have a 1TB HDD used to additional storage, but only used like 100gb.

I decided to install Ubuntu on the HDD, so I used a USB installer, and made a partition on my HDD then installed it.

When I tried to boot my system from the HDD it said "Operating system not found". Tried to figure it out but eventually gave up so I tried installing ubuntu again, this time I pressed the automatic option to replace the current Ubuntu, rather than the "Something else" button.

Now when I load from the HDD it just goes straight to windows which is weird to me, because windows is on the SSD. Baffled and pissed off, I disconnected my SSD, and tried to boot from HDD again. Nothing happens so that was a waste of time.

Can anyone help me figure out what I've done wrong? As far as I'm aware at this point, I have Ubuntu installed but just cant boot it.

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how does one revert to previous firefox version knowing that it won't work with current dependencies versions?

You deleted the MBR

Thanks. Whats the recommended course of action?

it looks for matching name in all values of $PATH from left to right in order

/dev/tpm0 isnt showing up despite enabling it in the bios. I have a ryzen cpu with an integrated "fTPM". How do I use this thing?

So this should be the right order for this case?
$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH

yes

Using Linux Mint. How do I fix this?

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
apt-utils : Depends: apt (= 1.6.6ubuntu0.1) but 1.6.8 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

apt --fix-broken install isn't even a valid option.

Never mind I figured it out. Removed the apt-utils package, did the needed update/upgrade, reinstalled the package. Odd that apt wanted me to use an option that doesn't exist though.

you need to run the installer again and let it repartition the hdd correctly
you can also do it manually, but let's not joke ourselves here, use the automatic installer.

>wayland
Why is it talking so long to roll out this piece of crap? The first release was 10 years ago. In the development for 10 fucking years and still not ready. What the fuck.

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They purposely dont support nvidia, so any development is halted because literally no one uses amd gpu's or devs for amd gpu's
Wayland dosent really serve any purpose. 99% of programs dont support wayland's backend so you have to use a obfuscation layer that loads Xorg anyway. Better off just using Xorg straight up then dealing with an extra layer on top of xorg to make programs work.

So it's basically a second HURD. A meme which looks cool in theory but sucks in practice. And nobody really cares about it.

How long has it been going on?

Because it sucks. They from the start didn't support a lot of things that people wanted. Remote desktop functionality and so on.

And even so, they didn't really make it particularly easy to make WMs/DEs or GPU drivers for it.

It's just all not their problem, they keep their stuff "simple" (though it still was and is buggy as fuck). Plz implement a workaround on your end.

Pulseaudio and systemd may be large, but at least they made things easier for a lot of people and were no trouble to implement for most distros.

That completely depends on your distro. In gentoo, you'd add =category/pkgname-version to /etc/portage/package.mask

Yes, it would resolve for the past applicable dependencies too, then. If that wasn't possible, you could force a oneshot install without deps, but presumably that's a dead end, the deps are there for a reason. You'd likely better use an overlay with the correct deps, something from the git history of the portage tree, an appimage or nix package, a vm, a docker container or any such thing then.

About one of 3 mpv instances will turn zombie and use 100% of the cpu. Forcing a reboot to regain control
It happens on a wide variety of codecs and containers from 1080p to 240p.
Nothing is left in the logs. What is this?

Oh, I've already done that though and it didnt work. It would be a waste of time doing it again

I cannot open gedit unless i mount a specific drive to a specific mount point.
What the fuck is this shit?

>Completely ignores half the post

Is it pronounced Nu or Gee En U?

Gahnoo

I say gnu as in guhnoo

Guano
haw.. haw... haaaaw..

I pronounce it as ñu

>ran apt update
>can't get past encryption password in regular boot
>works fine when booting to recovery mode
JUST.
what the fuck happened

>In gentoo
what about an arch-based distro, specifically manjaro...

I'm thinking about switching to Linux, does soldiworks and Photoshop work well in a VM?

can you recommend some icon themes? Preferably more of a oldschool look than flatshit

github.com/n-kremeris/irix-icons-linux

Anyone tried OpenLocomotion?
I can build the thing but I just cant make it recognize the path of the base game's files (installed the GoG version on wine just fine)
Where should I put them?

What's the easiest way to figure out what packages you'll need when switching to Gentoo?

I started with and I'm still using Manjaro since lest year, but I'm eventually going to move on. I know there is software to track what modules are used so you can build a leaner kernel without superfluous drivers, but it's difficult to tell what userspace software I use on a regular basis.

no idea, probably not too long since my ip only had one report on block lists

portage can be used on a running system too

What are some good resources to read linux-related news and dramas?

Trying to use per,but it says the hardware dosent support sampling.I verified profiling and oprofiling is enabled in the kernel. Is there something else that limits perf?

What went wrong?

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How is Debian vs. Arch?
I just got a new laptop and want to switch from Ubuntu to a new distro and narrowed my choices down to Debian and Arch. I would use testing because I think it's a good balance between new packages and stability

Anyone got an idea?

It fucked up while installing GRUB to the HDD, I think it chainloads it.
Try disconnecting the SSD while installing.

im trying to compile something that requires an older version of a package, what do?
ubuntu btw

die die die

Both are good, and you can even go systemd free with either Devuan or Parabola.

No, I mean having the SSD disconnected while installing, disconnecting it before you do anything else.
I don't mean he should rip out his SSD while it writes to it

are you sure? The SSD wasnt in use during the installation, to my knowledge.
ill try it anyway, fuck it

>something that requires an older version of a package, what do?
Usually it means incompetent devs.

I'm looking for a distro that I can run on a really old celeron M 370 laptop with 256mb of RAM

Any ideas?

Try Antix, MX, or maybe [the somewhat weird, but not necessarily bad] Knoppix.

(cont'd)
BTW the three things you might have to do to get it to run okay is establish a decent sized swap file on hopefully reasonably fast storage, pick a more conservative WM/DE (XFCE, Openbox or some tiling WM should do fine, for example) with not terribly heavy software, and try to limit the RAM usage of today's bloated as fuck browsers specifically.

Theoretically it would be fairly elegant to use a less bloated browser like netsurf, but it might not have full compatibility with all the websites you visit.

You might not want to use the older package. Actually, if you can avoid compiling that something with an AppImage, statically linked binary, Nix/Guix package, Snap, Flatpak, Docker [...] you might want to pick that method instead.

It could even be preferrable to use a full VM [with possibly another distro] to run that software in. Ubuntu actually pretty strongly tends to break in my experience if you start deploying older packages.

its icecat
>Actually, if you can avoid compiling that something with an AppImage, statically linked binary, Nix/Guix package, Snap, Flatpak, Docker [...] you might want to pick that method instead.
no idea what youre talking about

>no idea what youre talking about
If *any* of these alternative methods has the software you want, I suggest you use the respective alternative method instead of deploying older packages into Ubuntu.

what exactly do those alternate methods do?

I could get away with using lynx, so I'm not too fussed. It won't be my main machine obv

Avoid installing older ubuntu packages.

They bascially all got their own way of not affecting the native package management.

Appimages and statically linked binaries are "simplest", they just act like the application in one or more files that you can execute (put them into ~/.local/bin for example). The other methods mostly act like package managers that largely stay clear of your main system.

Do it again.
Disconnect your SSD and run the installer with your HD in SATA1 or whatever it is on your system. And give HDD boot priority in bios after.

is it possible for X server to spawn a window without a process? or or more correctly to have a window that is left after a process has been terminated

I've been using Ubuntu for the last couple of years.
> Not a programmer
> Coding skills: Python
What's my next step anons?

if i wanted to write a program (in, say, c++) and i wanted that program to run in the background of linux, no window or terminal or anything (similar to how services work on windows), how would i do that? what are some terms i can google to get me pointed in the right direction?

I wrote a bash script to change my desktop image every hour.

> Write .sh script
> (for Ubuntu) Add that script to Startup Applications

alright, but how do i start/stop/restart that script after startup?

It'll start automatically when you login. To stop find it using top/htop and kill it, to restart just start your script again.