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Any bittorrent clients like btpd (no gui, minimal) that has magnet support?

aria2

is not me.
Problems with Fedora:
- Heavy reliance on third party package repos (RPMFusion)
- Some packages are rarely updated or outright abandoned (chromium didn't get critical updates for months)
- DNF is slow
- Breaks between releases forcing you to reinstall if you want functional system
- A lot of shit is running by default that most users won't bother to disable, like sssd, SSH server, etc.

i was going to ask a question because im super new at this but all I did was open Gparted and my problems were gone. Thanks Jow Forums

You're welcome.

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btw I use arch

yeah no seriously, thanks. Ive been fucking around with my Dell dor the last 3 days trying to figure it out and all I had to do is visit this thread which somehow lead me to my solution. You fucks are magic!
Im installing Mint kek

Is it worth learning mutt or should I stick with Thunderbird? Just configuring it is such a pain and doesn't look secure.

GNU/Linux applications usually have 2 clipboards, but not every application does.
urxvt only has 1 and it's the selection one.
Highlight = copy (just whatever the last thing is that you highlighted is in this clipboard)
Paste = middle-mouse click (some applications let you do shift+ins to paste, urxvt does)

Then of course the 2nd clipboard is just your standard ctrl+c/v/x

Thank you, user.

hello linux nerds
I want to isntall memejaro xfce on my t530, dual GPUs. I know I need Bumblebee, but my problem is that the install itself crashes because dual GPUs.
My question is: Should I disable one of the GPUs during the install process? which one? will bumblebee give me shit if I enable the second GPU after installing it?
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wena nido

Bumblebee is dead. Look at PRIME or xrun. both are on the arch wiki (will apply to your distro of choice more or less)

forum.manjaro.org/t/howto-set-up-prime-with-nvidia-proprietary-driver/40225
this thingy?
wena nido

I'm currently using, and have used Windows, for more than a decade now (Windows 10 PRO right now), but i no longer use Windows-only programs, so everything i'm doing can be done in Linux. Windows is obviously more convenient, and i would guess more consistent and stable, but i'm curious about the customizability, privacy, and dynamism offered by Linux based OSs. I'm not put off by some of Linux's complexity, but neither do i want to learn a whole programming language just to be able to use my computer. Do i take the last step into the master race?

>Do i take the last step into the master race?
Usually the answer is yes, especially in your particular circumstances.
But there are still rare cases where people have a bad experience. The only way to know for sure is to just try it out yourself. Run it in a VM or something.

>Windows is obviously more convenient, and i would guess more consistent and stable
Not true. GNU/Linux servers can go VERY long times without ever restarting or running into any issues.
As for consistency I'm not sure what you mean. GNU/Linux is more self-consistent as applications don't typically bundle their own versions of libraries, so all our software is sharing the same libs, thus more consistent in the codebase being run.

But if you meant "consistent" in that your environment on windows will be more consistent with some other random windows user then yeah you're right about that. GNU/Linux environments tend to be wildly varied from user to user.

if you have an old laptop you don't mind wiping/replacing the HDD in try installing linux on that first. imo going straight for windows dual boot can lead to trouble especially if you rely on the windows machine for work or whatever. Even if you don't strictly need windows, just having a computer that's in a usable state is best. Aso depending on how you use your computer you might have to make comprimises moving to linux. Some applications simply have no viable alternative on linux machines. Adobe products for instance.

Also forgot to mention about stability, the reason servers can go years without ever being restarted is because on GNU/Linux you usually don't have to restart your machine, even after updates.

Just install kid.

Install it, fuck I should stop posting while half asleep.

How do i stop programs/daemons from raping my ram?
Is there SERIOUSLY no fucking way to just makea config in some folder telling it to never go above Xgb of ram?
Shits fucking oom'ing my system

search the web for "linux ate my RAM"

i hate linux

I know about caching
Caching is not my problem
When a program is eating up 15 of 16gb of ram, thats the fucking problem, that isnt any caching, the program has pushed off all the disk caching out of ram

There are several commands for limiting resources.
You might be interested in ulimit for limiting user resources and prlimit for limiting process resources.

Just use a pagefile🙁

Anyone familiar with this bug? I have two PCs connected to a displayport KVM. PC1 is Linux Mint Mate, and PC2 is Windows. When I switch from PC2 to PC1, Mate appears to be locked up. It shows what should be on the screen, and my mouse cursor moves, but everything on screen is just frozen. The only way I can snap it out of it is to ctrl+alt+F1 then back to F7.
This never happened before. I think this must be the result of some package update. Should I report it somewhere? Would anything even show up in a log? Nothing actually crashes.

idk if its just me but i dont see a lot of people running openbox compared to every other de/tiling wm. Why is that? Is something like xfce simple more superior?

How do you do this with forking processes?

The easiest way would probably be to just set them to a unique user and then use ulimit to limit the users total resource usage.
Other than that idk, it'd probably involve editing the way the process forks to make parents limit their own children, or running some kind of wrapper.

Or another thing that just occurred to me is maybe it just automatically does it. Maybe limiting the parent means all the children are also limited. I'm not sure about that.

to the user wondering about ubuntu updates and how canonical deals with them, the latest late night linux episode really goes into how they do it since a couple of hosts are canonical employees

Transmission-daemon

Is there a program i can give say 10 paths and it indexes all the files there in to a database, and then via cli or gui i give it a hash value and it looks in the database for the has and presents the filename and folder path?

>in to a database
What kind of database. I don't see why 10 items requires you to run a full database daemon. I'd suggest sqlite but honestly why don't you just use a text file?

10 paths
So hdds mounted to /media
Programs using /opt/
Its probly over 5 million files total, not 10

>text file
It isnt interactive and i dont have 64gb of ram required to open a multi gigabyte text time

I want to point it at the paths, have some cli or gui option to past a md5 hash and it output if it has it or not and where it is

Kinda weird, is your meme/porn collection that out of control?

If I had to guess: the alternatives to using openbox are becoming more attractive, plus, lxQt is something people are looking forward to / are actively working on & testing

Your fortune: Outlook good

It's pretty easy to horde huge data sets if you want to. Depending on what you get they don't take up as much space as you'd expect either. For instance the-eye.eu has 20TB of books and shit. The entire danbooru image collection of 3m+ images and enar on 100m tags is only a few TB.

I have about 250k files, if you use soulseek look up the user "foxbtw". I rather enjoy hoarding data.

I have an intel motherboard that doesn't play nicely with Linux. I'm not too familiar with the terminology but whatever bootstrapper on the motherboard itself that starts loading code seems to search for a very windows specific file. If I go into the bios and explicitly tell it to boot from a certain device, the Linux boots up fine. But automatically, it has no luck finding it, and there's nothing in the bios settings to fix this. It's an intel motherboard (as in, actually made and branded as intel, not a third party), and it seems people with intel NUCs have reported similar problems. From some light reading it seems the fix is just renaming a particular file, but perhaps you guys could help me point me in the right direction?

Expanding on this, I'm guessing this is the article I read a while back: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/02/linux-on-the-nuc-using-ubuntu-mint-fedora-and-the-steamos-beta/

I want to install fedora. While fedora is listed in the url, the article doesnt' seem to mention it. Can I simply replace "debian" with "fedora" and have the fix work the same?

Update graphics driver in Mint.
Are you switching display inputs mechanically (pulling cables) or by selector button?

I want to get into linux, what distro would you recomment me appart from gentoo memeing me, I am splitt between mint, debian, arch, ubuntu

I can't get it working. I'm even using ubuntu to remove as many variable as possible. mkdir /mnt/EFI/BOOT fails because no such file or directory, so my ubuntu seems to have a different folder structure than what the guide expects. Now I don't know what to do.

My ubuntu has several .efi files, but none of them are in a promising location. Is /usr/lib/system/boot/efi/system-bootx64.efi the one I want probably?

nixos.org/nix/about.html
>...is a unique identifier for the package that captures all its dependencies
does it mean nix installs dependency multiple times for individual packages that depends on them?

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No. The identifier is based on things it depends on, not things which depend on it.
Two packages which have the same dependency will cause that dependency to be built once and they both point to the same one.

The only exception of course is if one of them specifies an exact version of the dependency which differs from the latest version, then you'll end up building a 2nd one for the different version. But that would only happen if it was necessary, like the package crashes unless it has a specific version. Normally versions are unspecified which just means that everything uses the latest versions available.

Nixos or G E N T O O ?

What do I use to install Debian from a flash drive in current year? Does the universal USB installer work?

windows: rufus, win32diskimager
linux, bsd, mac etc: dd

dd if="DEBIAN.ISO" of="dev/yourdevice" BS=4M

Thank you

Kubuntu or KDE neon? Which is more stable?

fact: mint is the most powerful distro in the world

GuixSD

lie*

Kubuntu.
KDE neon has newer kde packages but it's less stable.

If i download media i want to make sure i dont have a copy of it somwhere. I just want to search by hash.

rmlint/fsdupes/findedupimages dont work on large data sets

I'm browsing Jow Forums on Firefox without any site-specific helper addons. When I expand images and then close them back to thumbnails, the page shifts up sometimes so the thumbnail is now at the bottom of the screen.
How do I correct this behavior?

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It's Linux-specific. Firefox on Windows functions differently. SQT directs Linux questions here.

Doesn't happen to me. I also have image hover enabled though, so maybe that changes something.

Hover Zoom+?
>addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hoverzoom-plus/

If you're asking if I have that addon the answer's no.
Also I highly doubt this is GNU/Linux-specific as you said. It's the same codebase. More likely it's something you changed, something you have non-vanilla on your windows version of FF, or a recent change to Jow Forums's javascript is causing it.
I've been using FF on GNU/Linux for around a decade and I've never experienced what you described. I only get the page shifting down when I collapse images so the thumbnail is at the top of the screen.

Oh, I guess you linked that addon because you weren't sure what I meant by hover? It's just a Jow Forums setting. If you haven't messed with your Jow Forums settings I suggest you go do that, maybe there's something about the default settings that's fucked up.

>It's just a Jow Forums setting.
Got it, thanks. I don't save cookies so I've never used the site's customization options.
>More likely it's something you changed
I have the
>layout.css.devPixelsPerPx
cranked up a bit for fractional scaling but the site was also doing it back when I was squinting.

I'll see if I can find how to repeat the behavior regularly. It seems to have a relationship with where the thumbnail is on-screen when I expand it.

Any distros with an i3 flavor? I know Manjaro has one but I hear there's an Ubuntu one

does anyone know where I can find documentation about the tracepoints in linux?
in particular I'm looking for the names of the arguments to the syscalls:sys_enter_write tracepoint

I made a Devuan USB, the grub boot menu shows up normally but as soon as devuan itself loads the screen is warped as if there was a problem with the display resolution or the display drivers, I tried nomodeset but it didn't do anything, help pls

just install i3 with apt you fool

If I expand a thumbnail and the image height is larger than my available viewport (fullscreen atm, ~900p available) and then I scroll down a bit to see the rest of the image, then close the image, the thumbnail then jumps to the bottom of the screen.

I used /wg/ to test because 4channel is a good Christian website that doesn't have sukebe boards like /hr/.

I NEED HELP

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>documentaion
>linux

your GPU?

If you need an i3 "flavor" to use i3, you probably shouldn't be using i3, honestly.

random intlel shit

>you probably shouldn't be using i3, honestly.

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Weird, intel drivers are supposed to be top notch. Do you have recent hardware? Maybe the old kernel of devuan has problems with it.

Anyway you can try in addition to nomodeset:
1. remove silent and add verbose
2. before the "linux" line add "set GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text" to force text mode
3. if you get int your system and can log in enable backports, install the almost latest kernel from backports and reboot. If that works, you're set.

Why is Manjaro #1 on Distrowatch right now?

Hello friends
I have my waterfox profile pointing to the same folder on both windows and xubuntu as suggested by an user on the last thread
It works well, the only issue is that I have to reenable extensions every single time I start the browser
Is there any way of fixing this? I was thinking of setting up on rsync job that synchronizes profile folders on both OSes every startup, but thinking about it, it would probably lead to the same issue.

i++;

Ok guys I love linux, it has been my only OS on my laptop since i bought it, and i'm really happy with it. But the thing is that i can't use it on
desktop: everything i have tried isn't as smooth as botnet 10, I have tried a lot of distros but i'm an arch fag with a gtx 1080ti with proprietary drivers, is that holding me back? On my laptop with 60hz i don't feel the same *need for speed TM* as i do on my 144hz monitor. I have tried DEs, WMs ... I usually feel this difference when dragging windows. Please Jow Forums help me become a true linux user, that's my only complaint

How do I find and uninstall a program in ubuntu preferably through the terminal?
I installed the latest version of libreoffice through snap and now I have an older copy alongside this new one

"dpkg -l" will list all of your installed packages. you can grep what you need as in
dpkg -l |grep libreoffice

In addition apt accepts wildcards
apt remove libreoffice*

You can also use aptitude for a ncurses interface for apt/dpkg.

GNU/Linux*

Does Mate DE have the Firefox Thumbnail issue or is it only Gnome and Xfce? Not too fond of KDE and LXQT yet.

which distro do you use?

Worth a read: gist.github.com/mauri870/5a54e415140875b9150ca31c491811f6

Had the same problem with dual GPUs, you might want to use Optimus manager to switch graphics card used.

Is there a way to get the right click application menu on GNOME, similar to openbox and KDE? Right clicking on the desktop obv

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Hi I delete all my timestamps in my bash_history with this command:
sed -i -E '/^\s*(#.*)?$/d' $HISTFILE
I check ad all timestamps are have been deleted.
But when I enter history in my terminal it displays all commands next to their dates. How is this possible? Where does the history command get the data from?