/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

Is there an equivalent of Pinta that's still being updated? I'm just looking for a basic bitch image editor with layers and wand selection, but without Gimp's bloat.

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So wayland is a big meme, huh? I just tried out sway on thinkpad (albeit ancient at this point) and it has literally no program support whatsoever. The only two browsers that actually use it are Falkon (broken on wayland) and epiphany but that's gnome shit.

Did you unmute your speakers in alsamixer?

would that matter since the device only shows as being off?

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>using linux when freebsd is available
uhmmmm, excuse me?

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What do I choose between /usr/bin/zsh, /bin/bash/ and /usr/bin/mksh

fish

This chart makes no sense to me

Any good GNU\Linux books you folks would recommend?

GNU/kaka

is it possible to turn only one disk's partition into ZFS file system? or will it require a whole physical HDD?

>start xfce
>it has no dekstop
i ran xfdesktop -R because the process was still up, it made me wait for like a minute or so and returned with
(xfdesktop:1933): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 17:44:46.347: g_application_activate_action: assertion 'application->priv->is_registered' failed
anyway it got back up and running within another few seconds, anyone had the same issue on memjaro?

I've been thinking about trying it out, but I'm not sure

gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.pdf

Nope, I don't use faggotry like xfce. KDE masterrace

you mean "I'm so FOSS I want to look like Win 10 clone" DE?

You can use individual partitions (or for test purposes, image file(s) on an existing file system) without a problem.

I mean shit that actually works, proof:

Kek, KDE haters btfo

I've seen ZFS specialists saying things like
>Partitioning is not useful in ZFS unless you have an esoteric configuration or are using certain SSD solutions or doing something odd with ZIL and L2ARC devices. And even then, it's best to just use whole-devices/disks.

is there a good program to use for data recovery when my ubuntu desktop won't recognize a hard drive?

oh, don't get me started on KDE's buggy behavior, kid

>KDE haters
>it was actually xfce hater shitposting

That icon style is so bad. I 100x prefer 16 bit, Windows 9X/2000 era icons over that shitty, artifacted raster of vector art.

Yes, in the typical ZFS use case it's not useful and only complicates things.
But in case you need to share a disk, it's perfectly possible.

MyPaint

thinking about jumping to fedora 30 if it comes out next week
how buggy are the final releases usually?

m'gentleman

I thought that zpools are "partitions"?

Goddamit I'm glad I'm free of Microsoft going pure Linux 100% for my computing.

cnbc.com/2019/04/25/microsoft-hits-1-trillion-market-cap-for-the-first-time-on-earnings.html

But Microsoft's resources are still terrifying. I'm never going back. My only hope is that Microsoft don't use that trillion megabuck to destroy Linux.

The best things in life are free. Like the universe. Like a freely offered beer. Like Linux is. Tux forever!

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What's the best way to change brightness thorough terminal? I switched to tiling wm and now usual brightness control buttons don't work.

>Goddamit I'm glad I'm free of Microsoft
>going pure Linux
but this would mean that you're not free of Microsoft?

I made 200 Gib partition, it says it has 185 GiB of 195 GiB free, partitioned with Gparted that claims it was 200, i know that kernel reserves 5% or so, but why is it saying that anything is taken up, and more importantly why it starts with 200 GiB

Are you sure there isn't a GB-GiB messup somewhere in the process?

what fs? are you sure the units now are the same units displayed during partitioning? what have you installed on it?

Firefox works fine under Sway and has for ages. You're not still on 0.15.x are you?

So I switched to Arch from Manjaro and I miss the pamac GUI desu. It was pretty convenient to uncheck packages that you don't want to get updated. Would it be too crazy if I install pamac too alongside pacman?

i literally calculated 1024*200 to get 200 GiB in Gparted
df returns /dev/sdb1 196G 60M 186G 1% but also
tmpfs 1.9G 158M 1.8G 9% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 1.9G 8.0K 1.9G 1% /tmp
tmpfs 386M 28K 386M 1% /run/user/1000

are they involved in any way?

Pamac is just a Pacman frontend.

I want to try and make the switch from windows 10 to Manjaro. I'd like to test how games work, nvidia drivers stability, vpn, etc. Would you guys recommend XFCE, KDE or Gnome?

forgot, ext4 is the file system
btw, df -BGB returns available 200GB and 211 GB total
is it naming convention error in Gparted or what?

I meant that I no longer use Microsoft Windows and I am now 100% Linux. If Microsoft go pure Linux and take it over I guess we are all fucked but fortunately they aren't doing that (yet). Damn my lack of comma skills. I should have used better punctuation.

I'm still glad I'm free of Redmond and have not used Microsoft Windows in any way for about 5 years now, I've mostly used Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian desktops & distro's instead. But I'm not free from Microsoft's potential trouble making they can launch against Linux because they, Microsoft, have so much power with that $1trillion market share.

Only Tux and going deeper underground with Linux away from mainstream Microsoft's big eye can save me I feel. That amount of money their shares made is staggering but I will not be daunted. I will continue and survive and hopefully the Linux distro's will too.

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>Manjaro
Oh boy, here we go again.

I just use the controls on my monitor to reduce contrast and brightness. It might not be what you were looking for but the monitor controls are all I need and it's a solution that works.

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>Oh boy, here we go again.
Hey man, I got the recommendation from Jow Forums

You got trolled HARD.

Don't use that shit distro, don't join the endless army of braindead manjaro fuckwits.
Use debian, ubuntu, opensuse, plain arch, anything.

tfw M$Cloud hits $1 trillion market cap.

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Ubuntu is the best supported distro for games at the moment in my opinion. Use that, as Ubuntu is very NVIDIA friendly.

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Aint it based on Arch?

pop os is even better for gayming

If you are a n00b, I strongly recommend either Manjaro or Mint.

I did say 'my opinion' and made sure I did. I do like Pop os though.

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is it normal for it to take 45+ minutes to install xorg on gentoo

I'm trying to install manjaro bspwm on a T420 I salvaged, I managed to work my way through Architect and boot into a working command line environment but that's it, no GUI even though I specified which one during install.
If anyone has a better guide to installing with architect that's better than the one on the main site I'd appreciate it.

yes, since it pulls in mesa which pulls in llvm/clang and that takes ages to compile.

>I'm trying to install manjaro

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See why I get confused?

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Howdy
How can I make it so when I close a certain program, another one gets killed too?
I'm trying to close jackd when I close an audio program

If you think you got trolled for getting Manjaro as recommendation you might as well unironically INSTALL GENTOO.

I hesitated to install it because it had like couple of dozens dependencies, but then I realized those are just for compiling and can be deleted after installation.

I don't understand what the issue is, I don't want to plunge directly into arch so I think having managed packages sounds nice.

>arch install boots into a black screen
looks like I got memed on

Install Gentoo am i right????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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nvm fixed it
>.Xauthority was in /dev/sda3 and not /dev/sda2
I'm such a brainlet

Can anybody help me find the programs I need?
I aim to listen to scientific articles I need to read, like an audiobook or podcast.

Im thus looking for the most hassle-free way to turn plaintext files (I can format the pdfs into plaintext manually) into the most high-quality spoken audio files (audiobook or simply mp3 even)

I found 'festival', a tts command line tool to turn text into speech but it sounds like ass (it's the stephen hawking voice). I also found a support article detailing how to install better (arctic project) voices however these better voices don't work, (the old ones do). I think it's something with pulseaudio not working together with specific voices?

Running ubuntu 16

>pic unrelated

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I went on meguca.org, one thread opened fine, opened another and my whole system froze for good few minutes (couldn't switch to another tty, anything) then I assume oomkiller killed everything but firefox, got popup in firefox that some notification.js script is unresponsive, closed everything
Is it something with that imageboard or firefox, what could be causing this?

Asking again here:

So, complete noob to linux and programming, but I thought I'd VM Arch so I could get to know [my] computers better, but I'm coming up on a problem with my logic drive, sda3, it's giving me this:

#mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
/dev/sda3 contains 'DOS/MBR boot sector' data
proceed anyway? (y,N)

I just went with y, but then later this happens:

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/home
[ *numbers* EXT4-fs (sda3): unable to read superblock
mount: /mnt/home: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3, missing cdepage or helper program, or other error

I'm literally just following this video, not sure what I did wrong, maybe I chose external vs primary, but he said in video to choose external, though it looked like he chose primary for sda3. Is this where I fucked up?

youtube.com/watch?v=JpV6eW_4JQk

I deleted the first try and am going at it again fresh. What should I do differently?

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I just installed Ubuntu Budgie the other day. Why isn't this DE more popular? I'm really digging this. It feels smooth, I have had no issues yet and it looks really nice.

So what's the problem with it, if any?

the default linux scrollbar is poopy

how do I change it

You did something horrifically wrong if you had an MBR -inside- a partition (/dev/sda3). You mistyped something somewhere

Does Clover show notifications with KDE Connect?

linux is a kernel, it doesn't have any default scrollbars

Maybe you want to change a GTK or QT theme?

There is no "default Linux scrollbar".

I apologize for the confusion, but yes I do want to change a gtk theme

pls halp

>install Super Tux Cart from the software center
>everything goes well apparently
>but when I try to run the game nothing happens
Any idea what might've happened here? The odd thing is that I already installed it before in the same distro and it worked fine. The same thing goes for similar applications.

distro choice help
ive used debian gnome for a year now.
i wanted a no-hustle full featured distro. its good, but there is a lot of stuff that bothers me - notification, poor settings options via gui, 100+ preinstalled apps. So im looking else where, i kinda like an idea of system where you do everything yourself, so you have a full control and just the software you need and want, like arch, im also able to learn new stuff, but i read extensively the arch wiki and its seems just a bit too much - i want a fresh install of a system to have sound figured out, to be able to connect to wifi and have a smooth option for autodetecting external monitors. but i dont want any libreoffices, glorious animations, big bars etc.
i was thinking maybe a set system with just the wm...?

Linux is a kernel partly controlled and developed by Microsoft.

Trying Kubuntu, do the animations stutter for anyone else or it just me? Or does KDE just suck?

KDE's compositor has weird glitches with some intersections of settings and hardware that I haven't seen with GNOME or Sway or Compton.

>i kinda like an idea of system where you do everything yourself, so you have a full control and just the software you need and want
consider BSD
But *nix systems are not wi-fi friendly in general.

well, Linux is owned by a couple of corporations like IBM and Micro Focus.

Manjaro i3.

Guess it was my fault for being attracted to it cause it looks more modern visually. What's a better Ubuntu flavor to try?

Honestly just try regular Ubuntu. It gets the most dev attention and is thus the least likely to have random glitches like that. If you want something lighter than GNOME, try Lubuntu.

>100+ preinstalled apps.
do this:
you'll fit just right in the retarded memejaro crowd.

>Only Tux and going deeper underground with Linux away from mainstream Microsoft's big eye can save me I feel.
also, consider BSD. It's virtually invisible and has the amazing 0% desktop market share. There's literally nothing to acquire, lol. And thanks to their own intelligent license they can stay underground, since commercial solutions based on BSD can remain simply commercial without pretending to be a part of FOSS.
Ironically, the radical GPL license resulted in aggressive commercialization of the Linux community from within.

>Ironically, the radical GPL license resulted in aggressive commercialization of the Linux community from within.
Except for the GPLv3, which is radioactive poison for commercial use in anything higher level than coreutils/glibc. I'd love to see Gtk4 go GPLv3 just to see everyone making commercial software for Linux make a mad sprint for Qt or build a new toolkit.

It's not broken its just not using wayland. It just runs under xwayland so what's the point? You're adding complexity rather than reducing it.