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I found a way to start all shells in a new sessions.But i found i would create too many sessions and it would cause problems. Is there a way to have the tmux session close if the program that was run in that session stops doing anything? if [[ $DISPLAY ]]; then # If not running interactively, do not do anything [[ $- != *i* ]] && return [[ -z "$TMUX" ]] && exec tmux fi
Cooper Howard
Hello, I'm trying to install gentoo and I'm confused as to which architecture I'm supposed to use? I'm using an i5 but the gentoo wiki page only lists an 32bit architecture suggested to be used with intel chips. I'm confused; why the fuck isn't there a 64bit install?
Should i put pop os on my little brothers computer? i want to guide him away from windows and stop being a brainlet
Grayson Robinson
>last slackware release was three years ago
Dylan Perez
pop os is a meme distro whose only value lies in the fact that it perfectly supports the hardware system76 ships it on. there's not much point in using it if you don't have one of their systems. honestly if you're doing all the setup for him then the only thing to consider is the selection of software available for him to choose from without having to go outside the package manager
Jose Price
The world "meme" has no meaning anymore.
Jordan Jones
emacs --no-window-system --funcall doctor
Daniel Jackson
$ shopt -s cdable_vars # Make variables cd-able. $ code="$(mktemp -d)" # Set variable $code to a randomly generated directory in /tmp. $ cd code # Start koding.
Camden Stewart
what is the recommended beginner distro in 2019?
Thomas Stewart
Linux mint
Ian Evans
nobody will ever think of linux as serious operating system when it doesn't provide the most basis features
You probably mean GNU/Linux, a variant of the GNU system which uses the Linux kernel.
John Scott
Hey, I decided to install arch on my desktop, and I dug out an old HDD to use as an isolated environment just in case I accidentally'd my storage. I partitioned the boot, swapspace and main directory, mounted the main to /mnt and the boot to /mnt/boot, and generated file tables, locale, etc, then installed GRUB.
The install exists and I can reach it with arch-chroot once I mount it, but I can't boot into it from the BIOS, or device selection. Despite having a separate install from Win10, if I boot from ANY attached EFI hard disk, it goes right to windows, even if I boot from the HDD that is filesystem'd with arch.
I went with efibootmgr and created a efi boot entry for grubx64.efi, but it still won't boot anything but Windows, no matter what I select. What else could I do to fix this, other than ripping out winshit? Should I ditch GRUB and use another bootloader?
You need use os-prober to properly setup windows/linux bootloading
Christian Cruz
I used os-prober, but the install guide didn't really do anything with it. I assumed that GRUB uses the package, but if I do have to directly run some commands, what should I do with it?
Mason Miller
to clarify, here's my fdisk -l i have two seperate EFI locations on separate disks, one for windows on sda and one mounted to /boot/ for arch. Should they be amalgamated to one record, or is it fine to keep them separate?
>better at what? appealing to your specific tastes?
Tyler Hughes
how did you get a terminal to look normal on a portrait monitor
Grayson Smith
Is it worth it for me to learn to do LFS, and use that as my main "distro" for regular use?
Sebastian Richardson
its not portrait lol, it's just a cropped edge of a landscape oriented monitor. Anyways, I wiped and started again. I think the main issue I'm getting is that despite having os-prober installed, grub-mkconfig won't detect a windows 10 install on /dev/sda1. I guess I'll prod around to see why
Lucas Anderson
just found out that you have to mount the Windows EFI partition and run the mkconfig again to have it detect it, but where would I mount it to? I already have my Linux EFI partition mounted to /mnt/efi
Hudson Watson
Pill me on Weston. Started studying display managers and came across interoperability between system.
Ryan Sanchez
So I ran gparted to reduce the size of my main linux partition, which completely fucked it up.
I managed to recover it, but why did this happen?
Gabriel Cox
What's the difference between funtoo and gentoo? reading the distrowatch funtoo page, funtoo looks like gentoo but better(?)
Ethan Lee
It's definitively worth reading it. It's worth doing it, if you enjoy doing fun things. IMHO it would be too much work to use the result as daily driver. Funtoo is made by the original Gentoo developer. AFAIK he wanted to do things that wouldn't be possible in Gentoo, but actually many things from Funtoo are used in Gentoo today as well. GNU+Linux*
Jaxson Adams
Is there a way to have an individual directory encrypted (in the sense that its contents are encrypted on disk and reads and writes and encrypted and decrypted on the fly)? I'm a lazy ass and don't want to figure out how to encrypt my whole partition.
Alexander Ross
Just tar.gz | gpg it?
Lincoln Gray
>but actually many things from Funtoo are used in Gentoo today as well oh ok, i'll still go with gentoo because i like their logo owo
Josiah Watson
>in the sense that its contents are encrypted on disk and reads and writes and encrypted and decrypted on the fly anyway this wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EncFS seems to do what I want
Xavier Bennett
to anyone curious, I think I found the problem
after converting windows to UEFI, dicking around with cfgs and os-prober, I found that the efibootmgr boot record for GRUB isn't written properly, and disappears on reboot. Apparently, boards with Intel's Z77 chipset don't accept efibootmgr edits, and only look for windows bootmgr locations (thanks intel, you fucks). So, presumably I'd have to go into the EFI shell and copy grubx64.efi to bootx64.efi's location, but I want to see if I can get around this without fucking with microsoft boot partitions
>it's another episode of wifi no longer works after returning from sleep t-thanks manjaro
Zachary Flores
>is Fedora user >see 2 Kernel 5.2 packages were built two days ago >they are still fucking "update candidates" >while another 5.1.19 Kernel is under testing >not to mention F30 is still stuck on Mesa 19.0 Should have installed OpenSuse Tumbleweed or even Manjaro as they already have the latest Kernel and Mesa packages ready.
Henry Turner
Which kernel?
Joseph Gonzalez
Why do you ask in such a way? I complain about Kernel for F30 being a little bit outdated. 5.2.1 and 5.2.2 are under the tags of f30-updates-candidates, but at today a 5.1.19 is now under f30-updates-testing, which means F30 users still have days being stuck at Kernel 5.1 series. Disappointing.
Lincoln Gomez
>Why do you ask in such a way? he's doing the epic "linux is a kernel" meme
Noah Foster
i need it for uni dev software and a few games
Alexander Anderson
Ive narrowed my choices down to the following three -void -nix -deepin
I read that void is dead, and deepin is apparently spyware and I know nothing about nix other than its reccomended to me a few times.
My ultimate goal is to have a system that uses wayland easily and runs davinci resolve (I couldnt get it running on arch). I'd ideally like everything to be up to date and have a fast rollout, unlike debian which even sid is fucking slow to do anything. Also a lack of nvidia issues would be nice. DE doesnt matter too much to me but I would like something that looks nice with minimal config.
If not these three I would like an alternative suggestion please. Thanks
Jayden Parker
>I read that void is dead the guy who made the distro was missing for a year but it wasn't ever really "dead" since he didn't maintain it alone there's a boring blog post in michaelwashere.net/post/2018-11-28-enobdfl/ if you like reading but it was written before he came back in january repology.org/repositories/graphs (closer to top left = higher percentage of up-to-date packages, void still does well here)
Kevin Richardson
wow that was a boring read. imagine wasting time writing all of that. thanks for the graph, interesting to see that nix has the freshest packages
Do you know that the majority of tech guys are fedora'd atheists? What are you even doing here?
Samuel Phillips
>Funtoo is made by the original Gentoo developer it also has a shitty logo the man had mojo when he did gentoo's artworks, now he doesn't
Dominic Perry
gentoo, guix, nix, the list can go on
Tyler Miller
not really, you can't make a working distro-tier system with LFS unless you are a team of programmers whose intent is creating a distro. There's simply no such possibility for a lone enthusiast.
Anyone knows what do i need to do in SculptOS? I want to try it but the virual box setup doesnt give me much info on what to do, really want to use it tho Pic for attention
well, actually you can, but only if you are some kind of a madman who can spend months and years working on your os alone
Andrew Fisher
like it unironically seems like its good for my needs, but i really dont wanna waste time compiling and following a bunch of stuff. a simple installer is what i need
Nolan Harris
Did I just find a bug in gnu ls? Or some sort of locale implementation? Way too embarassed to post to a bugtracker due to my taste in manga # printf '%s\n' * 魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第1話 邂逅.cbz 魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第1話 邂逅.cbz 魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第2話 対峙.cbz 魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第2話 対峙.cbz # ls --version ls (GNU coreutils) 8.31 # ls '魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第1'魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第2話 対峙.cbz' '魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第1'魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第2話 対峙.cbz' # ls -w80 '魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第1話 邂逅.cbz' '魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第1話 邂逅.cbz' '魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第2話 対峙.cbz' '魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第2話 対峙.cbz'
Turns out all widths 111+ are broken.
Adrian Nelson
I want a launcher on panel for terminal in root mode so it needs to run xfce4-terminal that gets piped pipe sudo -s that gets piped my password how do I set that shit up? I know I can do it differently, but I want to do it exactly this way, and I don't care about 'plaintext' and other reddit-tier paranoid shit
Turns out the issue was with conemu. Fuck I thought this was supposed to be better than sshing from powershell or mintty.
Lucas Rivera
Mandriva kinda became Mageia. You could have the launcher run "sudo xfce4-terminal" or "xfce4-terminal -e 'sudo -s'"
Evan Wilson
One more thing. If you don't care about security, you might as well allow your user to sudo without entering a password by editing your sudoers file. I think that might actually be necessary for the first option I gave you.
Jace Long
How do I install libopencl on arch? is it fine to install opencl-nvidia? Is it the same thing?
Henry Gomez
I care about security in a sense that I don't want the browser and all the other shit to run as root. I don't care about lunatic scenarios where my computer is completely compromised by some mossad malware or fucking tom cruise mission impossible kind of motherfucker. if someone can go into my scripts folder and steal the root password from there, it's all fucking ogre already.
Jack Nelson
Could you please recommend a good general approach to stopping being a brainlet, getting good at linux and becoming a poweruser?
Eli Walker
have sex
Jose Parker
let's pray for the linux atheists and their gaylord leader torvalds
Dylan Lewis
What's a good method of remote accessing my computer from either my Android phone or other Windows machines over the public network.
And SSH probably isn't an option given that I have no option of a static public IP
Andrew Walker
I'm afraid that once you do you lose all interest in linux whatsoever
Connor Lee
>And SSH probably isn't an option given that I have no option of a static public IP try noip.com
I'm behind a carrier grade NAT unfortunately. I tried DDNS services before with little success, I suppose I'm not adept enough yet to get it working.
Noah Jackson
Is there a reason you need to do this? What are you trying to accomplish?
Thomas Watson
ayy i got davinci working on manjaro. for anyone that has issues with it in the future, you have to install clinfo in order for it to work.q
Kayden Gutierrez
myself and my family is not religious at all, but we still enjoyed christmas for all the non-religious parts of it (family get-togethers, gifts, trees/lights, the whole snow theme despite living in an area that never snows, etc) using 'christmas' as in 'christmas is coming early', is not necessarily a religious statement, it refers more to the gifting part of it what i don't understand is why the people who demand these kinds of references be removed think their preference is more important than anybody elses. it's not like he said "god-fearing users will love the new wiki changes!" or something
all jokes aside, does anybody actually use thumbnails in their file picker?
John Hernandez
Well I recently finished an internship at a position where you have a work computer you can use during your free time and trust me, there's a lot of free time.
I've kinda been half-suggested-offered a position there after I finish my degree but that's besides the point. A lot of the coworkers there teamviewer into their home machines and use the work computer to edit their photos remotely or do graphic work, stuff like that.
Since I do some of that as well, I figured it'd be neat. Should I just use Teamviewer then?
Samuel Gonzalez
yes, theyre useful when picking an image, say from a screenshot folder or a video with a reel name (like whos gonna know what A001_07161829_C003.braw is just looking at the name)
Parker Carter
yes it's how I get the perfect reaction image for my posts
