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>ubuntu sets installer user as a privilegied user How do i change it? I want to use user with absolutely no privilegies so that if someone invade me they wont have any privilegies.
Carson Rivera
talk to me about loonix gaming. what gpu manufacturers have the best driver support? how good is wine (or whatever compat layer these days) for modern games? is there a significant difference with other hardware parts? what's the best way to run VM graphics passthrough, is it even really necessary?
I'd like to NOT dual-boot a hacky win7 install and definitely want to avoid win10 cancer. building from the ground up, how to make the best GNU-linux gamemachine?
Nicholas Butler
what would happen to gnu if apple bought linus?
Kayden Gray
Asking again: How to change the default dpi on Manjaro KDE to something that isnt for ants? Thanks.
Jack Scott
install gentoo
Ryan Baker
>linux feels more responsive than windows on a fucking VM with mere 3GB of ram What the fuck is wrong with windows? I just came to ubuntu to learn and get my linux certification but holy FUCK
Jose Allen
most distros would fork their own kernel gnu has contingency plans including their own kernel (look it up) supported by debian
Dylan Foster
based and cringepilled
Elijah Richardson
You do realize that the user has no extra privileges that can be done at will, right? What is mean by "privileged user" is entirely handled by sudo. Sudo is a command that allows certain normal users to temporarily escalate their privileges but only after re-entering their password when they want to do something.
So if someone did gain access to your machine it'd still be as if you're an unprivileged user unless they know your password.
However, if you do still want to remove it then just look up how to remove a users sudo rights (or just uninstall sudo).
Lucas Torres
Yeah but i am saying if they get acess to my user couldnt they acess the file with the password? Anyway, there is also the possibility of a hacker getting my password, if i make so that it has literally no way to act with privilegies unless su root it will make it harder for them to fuck my shit up.
Jace Sanchez
Redpill me on IRC, what is the best IRC client on linux?
Grayson Moore
>what is the best IRC client on linux? sic
Aiden Morris
thunderbird or pidgeon
emacs erc if you like cli
Mason Bennett
Settings > Hardware > Display and Monitor > Scale display
Jayden James
try using only wm
Cooper Lee
Is there any point in setting up apparmour on a single user desktop? It seems like its alot of setup for little reward
I tried it a few years ago and even the default profiles were absolute shit
John Kelly
Someone in a previous thread said I could achieve my gayming set up on a lilbre disto, even on a laptop with a NVIDIA card. Is worth considering? Otherwise I'll install Void to have something like Arch without braking ones a mouth.
>couldnt they acess the file with the password? I don't know what you mean, the file storing your user password is the same one storing the root password and it's encrypted or something (i don't really know) but it's not like it's just sitting in your home directory in plaintext.
If they can actually crack your users password then they could crack the root password too. >there is also the possibility of a hacker getting my password the only way that would happen is if they cracked it (again, same as cracking the root password anyway) or if you get scammed into giving it to them somehow, or you have a keylogger on your machine.
I think most exploits actually involve escalating the attackers privileges by somehow bypassing the password entirely in which case it makes no difference.
Andrew Robinson
Matrix bridge
Benjamin Gonzalez
>I could achieve my gayming set up on a lilbre disto, even on a laptop with a NVIDIA card. In terms of software, yes that's possible since the nouveau drivers are fully free software. Your games would have to be completely free software though or there's not much of a point in it. >Is worth considering? If you only play free games then yes but your system stops being fully free the moment you install and run a proprietary game on it. If you have a newer gpu the nouveau drivers will also not work as well as the proprietary ones. >Otherwise I'll install Void to have something like Arch without braking ones a mouth. Despite the memes, Arch doesn't actually do that.
Leo Young
Scaling this way usually makes some things fucky for me, dunno why. (aliasing, weird artifacts showing up, etc) Also webpages are still small as fuck. Don't see any option regarding dpi
Daniel Williams
Does irc doesnt work on VMs or something? I cant connect to the server
Anthony Taylor
It definitely does work in vm's
Levi Ramirez
Why does nobody use groff? it seems like a much more extensible version of latex
Elijah Parker
Is the 0x00sec irc down then? I am trying to connect to it since i am studying security but i cant connect.
Jordan Ross
i'm having a lot of screen tearing with my nvidia gpu, i've tried bouth nouveau and proprietary drivers, does amd have this problem?
Liam Gray
Create a non admin account and use that instead. Otherwise, you can remove yourself from the sudoers file, but set a pass for root first or you'll be sorry.
Wyatt Taylor
>Your games would have to be completely free software though or there's not much of a point in it. I tryd to explain that in the old thread. I have Steam installed writh Flatpak.
>If you have a newer gpu the nouveau drivers will also not work as well as the proprietary ones. Just looked at some benchmarks and now im not sure a NVIDIA laptop would be worth the money. It's more of a "nice-to-have" for me then something I need.
>Despite the memes, Arch doesn't actually do that. I have always had something break on Arch after a mouth or two. Im tied of it.
xrandr --dpi 144 ^This makes moust things on my GPD Pocket 2 a reasonable size
Bentley Roberts
Which distro and which DE? Xfce is notorious for screen tearing.
Wyatt Watson
Never heard of it
Nathaniel Howard
So I just installed Archlab with i3wm. Good shit so far.
Hudson Brown
gentoo openbox, i've had the screentearing on every distrothough , even when i use the full composition pipeline setting in nviida-settings, using a 750ti and i get it when watching videos/scrolling
Wyatt Hughes
>xrandr --dpi 144 Almost there. GTK apps (ffox, tbird) are still tiny and is there a way to make it persistent? thanks again.
Jayden Collins
Dont listen to any of these faggots. Weechat is where it's at user.
Luis Fisher
What is so special about it? Besides the special needs person installing it I mean.
Ryan Peterson
>he has a webcam
Levi James
Anybody start into this at 25+? How do late bloomers not want to kill themselves out of shame continually? Asking for a friend haha.
Cooper Campbell
what does that even mean
if you want to run linux just run linux what's the issue
Henry Rogers
Proud to say I started in my early teens, and was using Gentoo before it was ever a meme. Autism is a hell of a drug
Dominic Morales
I'm using Linux Live to create a Ubuntu 15.04 installation on a 32 GB flash drive. There's an option in Linux Live to allocate space for "persistent mode", which to my understanding is space that will not be erased/reset after shutting down. This maxes out at 4090 MB. I'm doing this bootable USB install so I can retrieve files from old hard drives and I would like to use the entire 32 GB (minus the Ubuntu install) for this. I tried this earlier, as directed by someone on /sqt/, but the files I copied over onto the USB from the old HDD were nowhere to be found after shutting down. Is there a way I can utilize the full 32 GB? If not, where is a safe folder to store data to in the "Persistent Mode" of Ubuntu?
I more so meant in the professional sense. I've gotten a lot of pressure that I'm too old to start p. much anything for the past couple of years so I always feel incredibly insecure whenever I start something and typically wind up giving up in a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Adrian Clark
I installed arch what do I do now
Josiah Martin
Is it possible to watch videos on VLC inside a ubuntu in a VM or does it get too slow?
Carson Lee
play csgo
Hunter Taylor
most people in IT and programming are dumb as a rock, and a large portion of them have little to no experience outside windows
just learning the basics puts you ahead of many of them.
just install a desktop distro, learn to use it to accomplish daily tasks. do it in a VM if you're a pussy. then move on to installing and setting up something like a webserver with a simple webpage. Write some shell scripts to automate things. Set up a different service on your network. etc.
The only way to "learn linux" is to do a bunch of different things with it to understand how to interact with the system, what the different components are, and how all the parts of the system interact
The only way to "learn to program" is to write code to do things you want to do.
I edited my grub.d/40_custom to a windows mount. Now why I did this I managed to fix otherwise, but now everytime I wanna boot linux (fedora) it runs into emergency mode with the journal pointing to "winhd" couldn't be mounted. Now I tried to fix that by using a recovery, editing out that extra mount part in 40_custom, but for some reason it keeps throwing that same error "winhd" couldn't be mounted even though the command doesn't exist anymore. Any tips what to do? Unfortunately I don't have another drive around to just install fresh and copy the files..
Bluetooth on my debian system randomly stop working, even after reboot. The service is up and running but it won't work. bluetoothctl says no controller avalible.
May 02 09:54:46 hox systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service... May 02 09:54:46 hox bluetoothd[4206]: Bluetooth daemon 5.50 May 02 09:54:46 hox systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service. May 02 09:54:46 hox bluetoothd[4206]: Starting SDP server May 02 09:54:46 hox bluetoothd[4206]: Bluetooth management interface 1.14 initialized hox@hox:~$ sudo journalctl -b | grep Bluetooth May 02 09:54:46 hox kernel: Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22 May 02 09:54:46 hox kernel: Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized May 02 09:54:46 hox kernel: Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized May 02 09:54:46 hox kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized May 02 09:54:46 hox kernel: Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized May 02 09:54:46 hox systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service... May 02 09:54:46 hox bluetoothd[4206]: Bluetooth daemon 5.50 May 02 09:54:46 hox systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service. May 02 09:54:46 hox systemd[1]: Reached target Bluetooth. May 02 09:54:46 hox kernel: Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 May 02 09:54:46 hox kernel: Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast May 02 09:54:46 hox kernel: Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized May 02 09:54:46 hox bluetoothd[4206]: Bluetooth management interface 1.14 initialized May 02 09:54:48 hox kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: command 0xfc05 tx timeout May 02 09:54:48 hox kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Reading Intel version information failed (-110) May 02 09:56:27 hox systemd[6389]: Starting Bluetooth OBEX service... May 02 09:56:27 hox systemd[6389]: Started Bluetooth OBEX service. May 02 09:57:49 hox kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: command 0xfc05 tx timeout May 02 09:57:49 hox kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Reading Intel version information failed (-110)
boot into a live usb, and either mount the disk and fix your grub installation, or reinstall grub
Landon Taylor
>emergency mode >couldn't be mounted Are you talking about the systemd emergency mode? Because if you got that far, you got pretty far into booting correctly. It could actually be a problem in your /etc/fstab due to the kernel drive names (e.g. /dev/sda) changing.
Aaron Hill
How would I fix grub? If I just grep for "winhd" I get zero results..
Logan Sanders
could be what said
alternatively, you'd fix grub by undoing whatever apparently dumb shit you did to break it in the first place
Juan Russell
I do, what I meant by not booting is the red part of the systemctlyournal.
Josiah Robinson
post grub.d/40_custom and post /etc/fstab
if you can't mount the partition from whatever environment you're in, again the simplest way is probably to boot up a live environment and mount the disk.
Leo Brooks
That's what I already did. I edited /etc/grub.d/40_customs back to what it was and I didn't touch anything on top of that. That's why I'm confused that the "error" keeps happining..
Luke Adams
it'd help if you posted the actual error message or initramfs kernel options
Aiden Collins
im on Ubuntu 18.04 lts is it worth formatting to Ubuntu 19.04?
Jeremiah Young
guess here is the place to ask, what the hell is up with ubuntu deciding to drop gksu?
Joshua Lee
im using 19.04 seems fine
Lincoln Hill
Thanks for the leads, guys. In the end it turned out it got still stucked in the fstab, but I was too dumb to edit it properly.
bunch of fun stuff, i recommend trying to go cli only. its an adventure in itself, like setting up gdm so you get a mouse cursor in tty if you wanted that, and then install elinks and have a nice comfy but novel browsing experience
Joseph Walker
Red pill me on Mint Is it the best first Distro? Is there a better one?
Use a small USB stick as your install medium and do a regular full install of Ubuntu to the 32GB.
Bentley Jenkins
It just werks. But I think Manjaro nowaday is as easy as mint ( or ubuntu) and it has more up-to-date packages.
Kayden Gonzalez
there is no best distro
Wyatt Jenkins
tfw use a comfy netbook and microsd support is broke, worked on at least kernel 4.4 from my testing feels bad
Levi Martin
Trying to compile ffmpeg with x264 support but this error persists: >ERROR: libx264 not found But libx264 already installed.
Jayden Morris
is there anyway in the kde file picker to right click and open into an image viewer while in say firefox selection window for Jow Forums? Instead of posting i can right click then select open in image viewer
Camden Collins
How do I configure ALSA to detect an external microphone plugged in to a TRRS (4 divisions) jack? I've tried hdajack retask to no avail. I have a CS4206 sound card and I'm running Manjaro with ALSA and pulseaudio.
Jeremiah Martinez
Is there any way on Arch around file transfers to USB 3 thumb drives slowing the hell down after about a minute?
Isaiah Allen
cum into the usb 3 port itll speed it up
Evan Murphy
I'll give er a go
Alexander Williams
No dice m8
Hunter Ortiz
keep trying unplug and plug in a few times make sure it gets lots of cum all over the contacts
Mason Smith
>Install Arch >Try Sway for WM >Nvidia users All proprietary graphics drivers are unsupported. This includes the Nvidia proprietary driver. The open source Nouveau driver is required instead. This is not going to change, don't ask. Tip: buy your hardware with open source support in mind.
What could k.asc be? Transfer it to my computer? Could it be malicious?
Zachary Carter
As the person who wrote the majority of the wlroots code responsible for that very thing (it wasn't Drew), I can simply say that you're fucked. We will never support EGLStreams for a variety of reasons, both technical and non-technical
>All proprietary graphics drivers are unsupported. This includes the Nvidia proprietary driver. The open source Nouveau driver is required instead. This is not going to change, don't ask. Tip: buy your hardware with open source support in mind. Was this legit from the program?
Nicholas Thomas
install libx264-dev
Dominic Smith
Sway is the wayland wm, wayland ONLY works with kernel modesetting which is only provided by the libre drivers.
Brayden Carter
>How do I configure ALSA >I have a CS4206 sound card (...) with pulseaudio Why aren't you use pulse to set the proper inp-- >I'm running Manjaro nvm pic related
The nvidia driver actually does provide kernel modesetting, but the real issue is that they don't support GBM, which is needed to allocate buffers that'll work with kernel modesetting. Their own solution to the issue is broken.
Luis Foster
Best sources to learn bash?
Jonathan Cox
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Nolan Cruz
seweet
Alexander Hill
I recently switched from w7 to Ubuntu and just wanted to say it's been an enjoyable experience. It's super fast at basically everything, and I don't need to put up with ads, my OS telling me I'm in the wrong timezone because I want to use 24 hour time, or my OS telling me when I'm restarting.
Nicholas Baker
Install compton
Logan Brooks
does anyone here use BASC-Archiver to save threads/images? I'm running it but it only downloads a json and txt me too, I'm really enjoying it.
Ryder Lopez
Install Parabola.
Noah Jenkins
Something evil you should never do. First download the key. Then import it. Don't pipe a remote stream into your system.
