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I'm teaching a friend of mine how to use linux. what are the important commands? Allready shown him neofetch and top/htop. was gonna show him man, touch, nano, geany,kwrite/ app launching from the command line and shit.
I'm showing him Parrot OS, btw, it's great. i'll post a screenshot of our laptops together.
Grayson Carter
anyone?
James Brown
Bash more like Bash fascists lmao
Ryder Perez
baitmorelikemasterbate.toolazyforagif.exe
Nolan Brooks
Have you tried mounting it?
Noah Perez
that was the first thing i tried to do mount: /mnt: no medium found on /dev/sr0. the disk itself seems to have troubles being actually read by the disk drive but it shows in lsblk nonetheless
Dominic Baker
okay, i have switched to another dvd and it works, i have no idea why teh first one produces such weird sounds and fails to mount
James Anderson
Bad disc then. I'm not sure how to force it, if that's what your asking for.
Adam Carter
Based OP. I need a recommendation for a Linux distro for my Pi 3B+ >aarch64 full 64-bit ARMv8 support >not source based time waster shit >no systemd garbage >easy package management I would use an illumos distro if any supported ARM but they're all for SPARC and x86-64. I've tried FreeBSD but Xorg doesn't work on it, so fuck that.
Noah Russell
Unpopular opinions: systemd only infuriates reactionary parts of the community.
Thomas Powell
post output of following commands groups # show user groups uname -ovrip # kernel info stat /dev/sr* # show file info of all sr_mod devices lsblk /dev/sr* # show block info of all sr_mod devices
also try `dmesg | tail` after running mount on the device and see what that says.
Ryder Edwards
Unpopular opinion: systemd is great because I wouldn't have found Slackware without it.
Ayden Scott
nvm about then. you could try a different dvd drive and also a disc cleaning trick, i remember back in the day i'd use toothpaste to save scratched cds, not sure if it works on dvds tho
Hunter Cooper
that's quite interesting then can somewhat scratched disk fail to even spin? the other one is in barely any better condition and it works just fine, the computer is positioned horizontally so the disk drive is vertical, it has been working like that fine for couple of years now, could it be the case?
Mason Torres
Unpopular truths: systemd is only useful for a vocal minority of the community, the majority is a trusting stupid mass, and another vocal minority sees the evil and is leaving for BSD
Noah Watson
>>Which web browser performs best on GNU/Linux? >linuxreviews.org/firefox-vs-chromium could I recommend changing this? or making it clear what those benchmarks mean? because they aren't real world performance, and of course only look at two browsers.
Easton Hughes
>sees the evil and is leaving for BSD loooooooooooooool BSD is a supporter of proprietary evil par excellence I'm glad they're leaving.
Jaxson White
Unpopular option: make own init system sucking hard dicks instead of you
Jackson Murphy
>proprietary evil >openbsd >while defending literal nsaware hōhaialam what
Ryan Price
Bsd license = proprietary-friendly license, it was written for this purpose. I'm not even talking about openbsd's paranoia and 'libertarian' bullshit they use to mask fundamental incongruities in their project.
Angel Rodriguez
Unpopular option: What? Speak English
Austin Rogers
>it's only free if nsa/stallman decides what to do youtube.com/watch?v=PjtkswyOYMI >First rule one dictates >You cannot give your code awayAnd rule two dictates >You must give it to me >So I can give it away properly for free
>This defies the first law of free trade >Rule zero came before this rule one >Freedom means you cannot dictate to anyone
8ch's pol is an appropriate place for openbsd crackpots.
Joshua Reyes
>freedom is only free if the nsa/gnu yoke on, and if you think otherwise you're a crackpot
Josiah Edwards
gnu bash was literally written by a black guy
Xavier Thompson
>Freedom means you cannot dictate to anyone >*takes away your freedom* >nothing personnel kiddo, BSD license allows me to do it
Thomas Gomez
"reactionary" is meaningless. all things that are, are reactions to other things, going back to the big bang.
Jason Thomas
0/10 babby's first openbsd I could do typical bsd whining better, because I was in the bsd community at some point.
Brayden Walker
Only in animal world. You on the other hand, are capable of ethics and imagination, i.e. of discerning what should be created, what can be created, and how it should be put in practice.
David White
..in your head
Ethan Davis
Unpopular option: speak English like a chad venom linux dev.
Justin Ortiz
Reposting here because I didn't realize last thread hit autosage
There's a feature at least in Firefox that they call "autoscrolling" where if you press the mouse wheel, you get another cursor, then moving the mouse can scroll fast in multiple directions
Is it possible to get this behavior in arbitrary applications (terminal, code editor....)?
Ubuntu with unity
Logan Perry
>Is it possible to get this behavior in arbitrary applications yes write the code for the feature :^)
> UNFRIENDLY LINUX GENERAL > Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread Oh well, technically true.
Jacob Sanders
His grandfather literally created monopoly man
Ian Smith
Amazing how on one of the stupidest sites on the internet, one single user can be responsible for so much of the stupid.
Austin Thompson
How can I get glass window decorations on linux?
Jonathan Miller
Want to install linux on my old laptop. Which distro should i use? Thinking of Xubuntu or Manjaro XFCE
Angel Lee
How can I create a bootable USB stick on Ubuntu, the app only creates Ubuntu sticks but won't create Arch or other type of bootable stick, unetbooting is outdated and won't install.
Can’t find this on google but does mint support wayland yet?
Liam Ross
so me and my friend are trying to instal linux on his laptop, which he forgot the charging cable of, and his laptop is a octocore monster with a 4k display
1. What common commands should i show him about linux 2. How do you properly and efficently set the resolution settings to upgrade linux to 4k?
Jace Reyes
Xubuntu is just better
older build means it's stable and bugtested by the alpha release idiots who spend their days testing higher paid people's code
I have a racing steering wheel and I'm sure I can't get it working right in linux (mint btw), but what about getting it to work at all? I used html5gamepad.com and all the buttons are making it through. But how do I go about making them do anything? I tried binding buttons in portal which is fully supported on Linux and nothing worked.
Jack Myers
Stop using Google.
James Lee
>what user? why would you use arch when debian sets the bar in workplace productivity >i'm gonna sleep with jamal tonight, he compiles gentoo from scratch with each job in mind to create the most efficient processor possible
A game i want to play requires an older mesa version than the one I am currently using. Is there a way to have both versions installed or will I just have to replace my newer mesa with an older one (Which I also don't know how to do so help with that would be nice)
Brody Price
>arch >no systemd Artix. Unless you want something Debian, openPepe, *tips* fedora, based, which are all yucky, might as slap on ubuntu. Next to arch BSD or nixos. There's probably some way to get nixos off systemd. So basically, install gentoo.
When we push the lesser DE users into the camps, will the os be running xfce or xrfce4
Carter Campbell
Does youtube-dl work with spotify? if no please tell me something that will.
Christian Howard
Bad cope, I won't be mad 10 seconds from now but u will still have and always will have shit taste.
It's still an ugly ass dyke
Ryan Hall
Your cpu already has a direct link to the NSA so why does this matter?
Chase Sullivan
Am too high to burn iso image to usb. Gonna go to my local university and burn the iso image to usb there on a windows machine. Fuckkk dont get high on weed for 5 days in a row
Asher Evans
what does he want to accomplish with it?
Ethan Barnes
rookie numbers lmao
Jackson Nelson
On 18.04, have a 4tb drive that I added on for storage and a 1tb drive that the system is installed in. I was thinking of maybe getting a SSD since it's only $30 for some 240gb sandisk, how involved would it be trying to move the OS over to the SSD without fucking up all my settings and files?
What's the most consistent way to use non-de software only
Way too often I download a neat program then read it's part of a DE and it downloads a thousand other dependencies and my autism flares up for having so many unused dependencies
Gabriel Thompson
Retard.
Jason Peterson
If I create bindkey shortcuts in the shell (zsh), do they also work in entirely different programs? Also does anyone know if bindkey or xbindkeys (which uses a XServer backend) is more efficient/faster? Especially important for shortcuts to kill programs.
A lot of gnome software has Cinnamon versions (called X-apps) that are DE-agnostic.
Brody Butler
>do they also work in entirely different programs? how new are you? of course not
Isaiah Morris
Linux, as we know it today, would have made it this far without Stallman. Torvalds is the true brain behind GNU/Linux. Stallman is an autistic piggy-backer who couldn't do what Linus could on a computer. Fuck Stallman. Linux, no GNU, is sufficient.
Henry Green
How do I make this a bash alias? the quotes in the external arguments section fucks it up:
>5 days in a row I did my first project for my internship while blazed off my mind yoy goddamm coward
Michael Jones
Okay hopefully this doesn't get too much hate, but I've used Linux for a long time now. Its been my primary laptop OS for over ten years, I use it for a VPS and server, and a number controllers for different machines. I would love to make it my main desktop OS as well.
But a few things. I use Fusion 360 and other software for CNC, I do game, and I've always wanted a ridiculous ricer PC just because I have a 80 synthwave thing going that is relaxing as hell in my work space, which yes the RGB helps with.
With my plans to replace my aging i5 I may have the headroom to make gaming work on Linux and perhaps get my design work going in WINE well enough. So how is the gaming on Linux, it was looking good last I checked with Proton/DXVK? Does Fusion 360 work okay in WINE if anyone knows? And can my stupid RGB bullshittery work as well with all the neat bells?
Also what would be a good lazy distro for this? I've done Kali for tech stuff before, and mostly CLI one for server, but the laptop distro I've changed constantly never finding one to stick with. If I want to make it a reality on the desktop it really does need to be lazy because on the desktop I have shit to do and fun to be had. I've heard Manjaro for a Ubuntu-ish ease, but with less fuckery because of more up to date software.
First time using conky. Is there a way to turn the diskio graph into a percentage number? Like if the graph is filled to the top it should say 100% and if it's halfway 50%, empty 0% etc
Aaron Perez
Use double quotes for one of the two, or escape the inner ones with backslashes.
Liam Lewis
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.
After about a decade of using it to crop photos and wishing I had photoshop, I've discovered you can draw a straight line if you hold down shift. So I'm now getting used to the idea that GIMP might actually be usable, although knowing GNU there are probably some Emacs keybindings in there just to make drawing pictures easier.
You should get G'MIC. It's a plugin framework with lots and more lots of filters and utilities. It also provides a cli utility that you can use like imagemagick.
Aaron Ross
rtfm
Justin Stewart
Stallman is such a sad fuck. Couldn't get his kernel together fast enough to be relevant and wants his name on everyone else's project for providing a few tools.
None. GIMP is dead. Krita if its for drawing DarkTable or others for photos.
Lincoln Cooper
as the expression goes: those who can not do, teach. Consider the installation of gentoo inferior parrot user
