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Manjaro is worse than Ubuntu. Install Arch and learn pacman commands.
Adam Cox
Every device you use is running proprietary code, the website your reading this on is proprietary, the electricity you're using was generated and transmitted using proprietary code, and the list goes on including all the proprietary code in the linux kernel. But don't worry about it, its ok to be a hypocrite because the head hypocrite said so.
Lincoln Morgan
Are the books "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment" and "Unix Programming Environment" worth to read now or they are too dated? By worth I mean that I'll be learning things that are still being used or not? I have no problem of it being dated, I'd read it anyway, but they are the only Unix books I know and I'd want one that teaches things that are used in the actual version of Unix.
Ryder Ramirez
I've been looking for a reason to boot up linux for a few months (I have Kubuntu on my other partition), and finally came up with and idea for a shell script application I'd like to make. It will be used to preview and then rename media files within a given directory:
The application prompts you for a directory. Then it finds all media files, and for each one it: (1) Shows its current filename, excluding the extension. (2) Open up the image/video, (3) returns focus to the terminal and prompts for a new filename, or you can press something like Ctrl + N to keep the current filename. Thats it!
How do I get started? Specifically, what should I use that can open up image and video files, that can then return focus to terminal, without being too obstructive?
it's impossible to use non-proprietary for every single thing but the real freetard use non-proprietary whenever possible but you wouldn't understand since you are a brainwashed cia nibba consumerism goy faggot, fucking die
William Murphy
>lmao losers give up like me Gno.
Jackson Carter
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Justin Cruz
What email client do you use, Jow Forums?
Lincoln Gonzalez
>window updates breaks my keyboard >can't code, decide to kill windows >installed ubuntu and it just werks >Everything works, gzdoom works, my IDEs work, everything works. >GREAT!
So. what do you guys do to keep up to date with your goals? I downloaded the gnome pomodoro app and so far it's nice. Yet, what do you guys else do to keep track of progress? I am a student and I'd like to know how i can log everything without it becoming daunting.
Anthony Scott
qutebrowser
Liam Long
Stop using email.
Hunter Gray
Outlook Express
Josiah Reyes
Look into Tutanota.
Ryder Collins
Neomutt, ofcourse.
Henry Thomas
Why?
Luis Jones
i am fine with thunderbird.
Michael Ross
I have / on SSD and /home on HDD which also has ~/download ~/video ~/images etc. I want to move home to SSD so configs and program data benefit from being on ssd but keep images, videos etc. on HDD (with symlinks to those dirs in home) How to do that?
Brody Sullivan
What instead of it?
Bentley Ramirez
You just need /boot on SSD if you have a separate /usr and/or /etc dir.
Jackson Walker
>with symlinks to those dirs in home Very bad idea.
Adam Martinez
why
Eli Cox
why didn't you helped me, Jow Forums :(
Thomas Thompson
Because links can break.
Anthony Baker
Is three any reason to use Kubuntu over KDE Neon
Levi Reyes
How do i set refresh rate with xorg.conf? I have Section "Monitor" Identifier "DisplayPort-0" Option "PreferredMode" "2560x1080" Option "Position" "3840 0" Option "Primary" "true" EndSection for monitor i want different refresh rate and it's boots at 60hz, but i want 75hz. Is that necessary to add new named mode for that?
Landon Long
How? /home on ssd /data on hhd with -/images -/videos
make ~/images and ~/videos linking to /data/images and /data/videos What can break?
Aiden Howard
Gnome has this feature where you can click and drag maximized windows from any empty panel area. Is there ANY other DE where I can get this? I like the shell workflow, but everything else is vomit inducing.
Wyatt Ward
sorry bro. I for one, have no idea how to do it. i am just glad my keyboard works again.
Isaiah Perez
why is it that I cant get nvidia-settings to use its settings after reboot? everytime I reboot I have to go into nvidia-settings and then exit them. Then itll fix the 144hz issue instead of staying locked at 60hz.
Jaxson Green
Press the button to save xorg.conf
James Thomas
yeah im doing that getting failed to commit changes to dconf:
Kevin Anderson
you shouldn't symlink something outside of the disk
Samuel Phillips
Symlinks exist specifically to link things outside the disk. They're a fail fast alternative to mount points.
Colton Ross
Hi, what's a rolling release distro that is
- Have auto-detection (udev I suppose)/isn't stupidly barebones like Arch despite eating 800 MiB
- Don't eat too much space
- Have a recent version of kakoune in the binary repos, or ports/source.
- Have a proper functioning VirtualBox guest additions so I can use seamless mode. That means stacking window manager.
- Minimalist, no DE crap, I just want to run kakoune in seamless mode.
If you're going to suggest FreeBSD, please do. I'm super frustrated at this point.
Henry Bell
Debian testing?
TryOption "PreferredMode" "2560x1080_75"
Jaxson Lewis
How much disk space Debian with X and IceWM forked?
i had to reinstall hp proprietary plugin, which by the way said it failed to install, to have my printer working again i installed it 2 months ago and it worked, now i had to do it again, am i supposed to do it every now and then? t. manjaro
Lincoln Gray
gmail on chromium, my friend :-)
Joseph Taylor
I hope this is bait
William Williams
how do you take screenshot of tty again?
Jayden Wilson
scrot
Cooper Rivera
actually did that already as well but itll only work if you load if you do it manuallyt. I set it via mhwd-gpu --setmod nvidia --setxorg /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf
This works nvidia-settings --load-config-only but again I have to do it manually
Ethan Hernandez
with tty I meant there's no x11 server up
Liam Lopez
Do I need to reboot an ubuntu system to use a different driver? I installed one but really don't want to restart for it to take effect
Landon Nelson
was going to install tree style tabs for firefox but heard it's really buggy, is it still the case? Go with that or tab center redux?
Ryan Turner
how the fuck do you get polybar working on linux mint?
Ethan Myers
modprobe the driver
Asher Williams
What is the point of libc++ is LITERALLY nothing builds against it?
Luke Rivera
file_mode and dir_mode does nothing when mounting cifs. am I missing something? mount.cifs //ip/folder /mount/folder -o gid=users,file_mode=0774,dir_mode=0775
Juan Lee
i installed my xubuntu with no swap partition, can i add it later, should i leave it without? i have 16giggawatts of ram
Colton Johnson
Is AMDGPU experimental or unstable or anything like that or what else is the reason I have to manually install and enable it to be able to use Vulkan?
Camden Baker
Does the account your mounting with have the appropriate permissions? I'd start there.
Jayden Richardson
yeah I mount with sudo. it worked on arch but now I'm having troubles on latest debian. I simply installed samba and cifs-utils for the job
Kevin Flores
How about the permissions on the remote folder?
Jack Mitchell
I don't have an AMD card anymore so I might be talking out of my ass, but I'm pretty sure AMDGPU is in most repos these days. It's AMDGPU-PRO that contains proprietary software so it's a separate download.
I am scared to shrink / and then move my /home partition in case anything goes wrong is it valid fear?
Angel Smith
Easiest way to install a minimal Debian/kde ? I just want Debian with kde-plasma-desktop. Official kde flavour is 10gb, whereas Debian CLI is 1.3gb. The thing is, connecting to Wi-Fi through CLI is a mess (for me). Why do I have to configure network on CLI since I already did it in the during the install process ? What's the easiest/quickest way to deal with it ? (I remember this Arch program consisting of an ncurse interface to detect and connect to wifi)
You can put that nvidia-settings command in your xinitrc. My distro's package actually just includes it as a script in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d even.
Isaiah Sullivan
Just downloaded some game game and installed it into my home folder. It's shit. Can I just delete the folder or will there be leftovers on my system?
Jordan Turner
connect to wifi with wpa_supplicant for first boot, then install wicd-curses and use wicd service to manage wifi via cli >unix.stackexchange.com/a/283757 ># apt install wicd-curses
Ryder Nelson
check .config I guess
Brody Nelson
Is fractional scaling ever coming to mainstream Liunx DE's? As far as I understood it's basically impossible on X and right now you can only enable it in Gnome 3.22 using a Wayland session. I use Mint on my desktop and want to use it on the laptop as well, but I need 125-150% scaling to see, and just bumping up the font sizes isn't a real solution.
No matter if everything goes well you should backup. How important is your data? Any interruption will cause you headaches and if your data is important then the cost of backing up before working on your live drive is worth the little money.
Oliver Robinson
GNU/Linux*
Adrian Baker
info finding files
Levi Long
lignux
Jace Green
How do i ssh in to a machine,and then run a command from it automatically? Host based ssh key authentication is setup. Is it as simple as running ssh to connect, putting in a sleep 1, then running the command in a shebang'd sh file? It would be from android to linux(i can already connect fine with the script)
Adrian Cruz
>lignux I like it.
Justin Gutierrez
I recently installed Manjaro to replace my Linux Mint partition. Most of my linux experience is on debian based distros so Im wondering what the essential differences are that can help me be better acclimated with Manjaro.
I mostly use my linux partition for application development. I've already installed most of the major tools I use
Cooper Green
Does anyone have a way to show the location based on IP on the command line? Before, I had an alias that, given the IP, would return the geographic location. But my old alias doesn't work anymore and I can't find a way to do this now.
Nice! Thanks. Hope this website stays up for a while.
Ian Bennett
Dear Jow Forums
I run an Ubuntu 18.04 server and I want to occasionally watch some videos on the same machine.
The server runs on an i7 CPU ThinkPad with 8gb of ram and a 256 GB ssd. The gpu is an Intel HD 3000 graphics card.
I'm thinking of installing a desktop environment to watch some movies I would like to stream from my plex server. Most of the movies are medium to high quality rips.
I would prefer a light weight environment but I am afraid that maybe those environments do not support fast video decoding.
What environment does Jow Forums suggest and this very particular case and why?
Thanks!
Christian Cruz
No need for a DE, just use mpv using the tty driver.
>alsa just installed debian and xfce but there's no audio. what now? hdmi:0, pch:1. how do I invert order?
Blake Baker
Awesome wm. But the de/wm has nothing to do with mpv's decoding anyhow, at most you might get some weird bug interfering with rendering on opengl heavy de/wm.
Hunter Nelson
Install pulse and pick the right source, sink, volume level.
Adrian Jenkins
Did you unmute the speakers?
Joseph Myers
I need a good GUI email client that is not Thunderbird. Suggestions?
Cameron Fisher
GUI is for n00BZ.
Eli Smith
I have and use Neomutt already, but I *need* a GUI client.
Juan Diaz
Maybe if you tell us what's wrong with Thunderbird. It's impossible to make good suggestions unless you tell us what you don't like about that one.
Nolan Ortiz
evolution
Nolan Jones
Besides the UI itself, there's nothing wrong with it. I dislike how convoluted and messy it is.
Christopher Howard
sylpheed
Elijah Carter
What's the easiest non-Botnet distro? Something like Mint but not based on (((Ubuntu)))
Jeremiah Price
Fedora. Or Mint's Debian Edition
Ubuntu being botnet is a massively overblown thing though, unless you're talking about unusably old releases. That said, I can understand not wanting to trust Canonical after it.
Chase Nelson
On one machine I had Sabayon and MX Linux were the easiest distros to install and update.
That is likely not an universal rule.
Nicholas Cook
Roundcube and k9-mail
Nathaniel Russell
You're wrong senpai. The only thing gone is the Amazon dash search. Now Ubuntu has real opt-out telemetry - and even if you opt out, Ubuntu doesn't stop calling home.
Luke Ortiz
>and even if you opt out, Ubuntu doesn't stop calling home. Source on this? My understanding was that Canonical was actually properly respecting its users thanks to backlash from the Amazon shit, and that the telemetry was a single, clearly-labled checkbox on the installer.
Thomas White
Well the information it sends when the user has opted out is simply: { "OptOut": true } but it does that on a regular basis. To get rid of it, users have to uninstall the package.
