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why no distro compile small kernel without extra driver?
Brody Garcia
Install Debian.
Asher Edwards
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Jayden Clark
Cool link, lazy ass.
Andrew Long
>some programs will absolutely not run on gnu linux Absolutely true, but I feel like even bothering to adopt GNU/Linux in any capacity should be a drill in finding alternatives and working with what you've got. Now if OP just wants to install for the sake of learning and transfering his knowledge to server systems then sure, but if the ultimate goal is prep for when Windows ultimately goes to shit completely and the ecosystem on this side becomes mature and supported enough to be a perfectly viable switch, I feel like adoption and settling for alternatives should be the correct philosophy
it already has. i run windows 8.1 just for ableton and affinity. as soon as theres true replacements for both thats a 500gb ssd cleared up for me. and no, bitwig is shit compared to ableton and inkscape is so so bad
Robert Nelson
Similar PDF reader to MuPDF?
Camden Ward
epub > pdf
Thomas Morris
zathura
Zachary King
>i run windows My condolences. That's a frontend for mupdf, brainlet.
Chase Kelly
what's the right way of locking a package in Gentoo, to prevent it from both updating and downgrading?
Daniel Rivera
you can read pdfs through poppler on zathura.
Camden Jackson
Emacs
Lincoln Moore
Here's a script that allows you to reboot in the background. #!/bin/sh reboot &
Nicholas Long
>bitwig is shit compared to ableton and inkscape is so so bad wow amazing arguments I can play this game too, bitwig is overall a better version of Ableton made by Ableton devs who know what's good Inkscape is a great vector editor that will be on par with corel in a couple of years, if it's not already
Would you say it is fully adhering to "good practices" in Bash scripting now, or are there still blemishes somewhere? shellcheck comes up clear, and the command seems to work for all use cases.
Also, gzdoom does not have problems with empty space in its arguments, so we're good on that front.
gee why is bsd so hard.. I guess I'm staying with gnu/linux for the time being
Tyler Ward
this is the juicy stuff I was looking for thanks user
Carson Cooper
>#!/bin/bash I have another criticism: Rewrite it in POSIX sh.
Evan Jenkins
huh I didn't know that POSIX acronym was invented by Stallman the more you know
Carter Parker
Why those long if/elif/else statements instead of case?
Isaac King
Is there a concept of "per program environment variables" or something like that? I am currently resorting to this hack to start some things that need an environment variable I don't want to have globally: ENV="value"; export ENV; exec program
Im installing this on virtualbox and need to know if once I delete disk will it delete everything on the internal harddrive or what does this really mean?
EDITOR= vim programX This overwrites an env variable called EDITOR for programX
Leo Campbell
lol, does the author even mention Bash and the fact that it's a GNU utility
Aiden Bailey
>and need to know if once I delete disk will it delete everything on the internal harddrive No, it will delete everything on the virtual hard drive Manjaro doesn't even know about the existence of anything else, otherwise virtual machines would be nearly pointless for most things they are being used for.
Julian James
I don't get it. How do I use that? Put it in a shell script? How is that different from mine?
Oh god please no. Don't torture me like that. POSIX-compliant sh is such a pain in the ass to write. I tried it in one of my first drafts and gave up. Besides, dash wouldn't make such a big difference in my script since I'd have to replace bashisms with sed/awk and I'm already calling other external commands anyway (like ls)
I don't know about case What makes it preferable to if/elif/else and when?
>What makes it preferable to if/elif/else and when? Compared to long if/elif/else statements it's easier to read. It's also great for POSIX compliant scripts as it allows glob/pattern matching. For example, your music selection would look like this with case # Load selected music pack, if any case "$music" in term) musicaddon='term_midi35.pk3';; xpack) musicaddon='term_xpack.pk3';; floppy) musicaddon='floppydisk_midi.zip';; synth) musicaddon='synthdoom.pk3';; *) printf '%s\n\n' "~~~ Warning: Music pack not recognized. Continuing... ~~~";; esac
Why on earth would you want to master bash when python exists?
Jason Gutierrez
It's bad and you should feel bad for defending its harmful practice.
cat is for concatenation. If you want to grep something, use grep correctly: grep 'pattern' 'file'. That way you save a process, cpu cycles, fight against global heating and best of all: you don't look like a faggot.
Henry Barnes
>Don't torture me like that. POSIX-compliant sh is such a pain in the ass to write What? This is absolutely not true. It's not even more verbose if you write good code. bash is a mistake, and a whole lot of people will dismiss your script immediately just because it is written in it. Do yourself a favor and use POSIX.
Robert Phillips
Jun 06 10:36:19 sodom sshd[26617]: Invalid user nigga from 167.99.54.4 port 35748
my sides
Noah Turner
If i wanna install Gentoo, do I have compile the kernel? Why isn't there a ready install like Ubuntu?
Logan Miller
Gentoo is not for people who want standardized ready installs.
Alexander Roberts
who is Gentoo for? its developers?
Josiah Murphy
gentoo is for squeezing every last drop of performance out of your computer
Isaac Turner
idiot
Christopher Thomas
>Failed to restart snap.service: Unit snap.service not found. >snap is already the newest version (2013-11-29-9). I can't keep doing this...
Charles Ward
How do I accomplish that?
Juan Reed
/dev/sda2 suddenly became 100% full, I managed to get it down to 96% but I hardly have anything else taking up disk space. I think there's a program using a deleted file, but I'm a GNU/Linux noob and don't know what I'm looking at. I ran lsof / | grep deleted and it returned pic related. What do?
world do, too. Using case switches instead of if/else would prettify the whole thing IMHO. Oh, and a license is needed!
My 2cents.
Oliver Turner
I dont see your point? If i say i can sing and dance, does that mean I cant dance without singing?
Noah Davis
I dont know because that is ambiguous
Henry Thompson
Gentoo is a meta distribution. It's for people who want to build their own Linux based OSes from source. Google is the largest user of Gentoo in this manner - Chromium OS started from Gentoo.
Joshua Williams
sudo ncdu -x /mountpoint
Ian Wood
kek, some real mental gymnastics at play here
Connor Ortiz
sing and dance = sing and dance sing or dance = sing or dance sing and dance != sing or dance sing or dance != sing and dance What's so difficult? Just use your brain.
Don't run commands posted here, especially sudo commands, unless you know what you're doing.
Angel Brown
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Brody Ramirez
I don't know what I'm doing in general. I ran Windows 7 for 8 years, this is all very new to me. Can I do this with apt-get or do I have to add a repository from a ppa?
Camden Baker
Read your distro's documentation and then your package manager's documentation. Stop shitting up the thread.
Bentley Edwards
It should be available via apt, yes.
William Gutierrez
wow Mr. Gatekeeper you are such a badass laying it down like that!
Josiah Rodriguez
Unfriendly fags are not welcome in this thread.
Liam Butler
No bully.
Elijah Gonzalez
Im not trying to be a gatekeeper, im asking him to read about his software and try to understand it before coming to this shithole and asking basic questions to people who will respond "install gentoo" or "rm -rf /"
Matthew Wright
while I agree, and excessive handholding isn't as useful as more lightly guiding noobs and telling them about resources, you can do that while still remaining "friendly"
