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First for Linux without gnu is best possible amount of real freedom.
Leo Torres
I love the ubuntu operating system! Its so fun and easy! It just works!
Grayson White
is there a way to inject custom css into certain websites a la stylus in qutebrowser?
Charles Stewart
>best possible amount of real freedom oh you bastards
Christian Gomez
So Android?
Brayden Howard
If I'm using wayland, should I fall for the wm meme and use sway, or just stick with plasma? Pretty sure gnome has the most polished wayland implementation so far but I don't really like it that much.
Hunter Clark
(repost) What am I supposed to look at in the output?
Josiah Morris
No. Linux without gnu
Wyatt Johnson
So yes.
Juan Cooper
gnu is an animal, you probably mean GNU.
Henry Hill
I feel like trying another distro. all I ever used was Debian, Ubuntu and Mint which I liked but I felt Debian is way too out of date even for its testing build and Ubuntu/Mint were too bloated. thinking of trying something with a rolling release and fairly up to date. what would you recommend? Manjaro?
Camden Morris
No, I can use Linux without gnu, and without the Android userland
Brody Rivera
So I tried to change my greeter as instructed on the github but literally nothing changed.
Does anyone know if this is simply not compatible with manjaro maybe?
manjaro is eh, might as well just do arch with a DE if you're considering it. I heard it has good KDE support.
Adam Moore
When you have a file with unsorted lines and you want to sort the lines, is there a better way to do it than: >$ sort file > filesorted; mv filesorted file ???
Zachary Cook
You can jump out of your window.
John Adams
Nevermind I'm an idiot and forgot to reboot. It works.
Parker Bell
cat file | sort > file
Jeremiah Gonzalez
>what would you recommend? Manjaro? Sure. Manjaro is one of the most used distros for a reason.
Lucas Green
Thanks, much more comfy from a brain perspective.
Gabriel Cox
isn't Arch primarily a meme for "btw I use Arch"
Xavier Smith
Don't do this. This will overwrite the file with nothing!
Kevin Russell
Typical gnufag. Cant handle that theirr precious gnu dosent have to be used with Linux at all, and that stallman literally spent 60 years of his life trying to force people to call it gnu,when you dont even have to use shitty gnu tools in your OS
Distros Alpine Sabotage dd-wrt openwrt
Tools MUSL LLVM Clang
You no longer need gcc to compile Linux either
Zachary Cook
Why can't pacman find the aether package?
sudo pacman -S lightdm-webkit-theme-aether says the file couldn't be found, but the package is right according to the arch wiki
Connor Perez
Listen. Here's a thing about pipes. Pipes don't work like "this goes through this and then through through that". It works like "this goes through this and that at the same time". This means when you write to a file something you're reading from the sane file, "this" becomes "nothing".
Try it: $ sleep 3 | echo hello This will print hello and wait for 3 seconds, bot parts starting at the same time.
Hunter Powell
>lightdm-webkit-theme-aether It's an AUR package
Adrian Wright
some people think they are 1337 hax0rs for installing it I guess, but it's just copying commands and installing a DE and then you're at the same point at any other distro. there's also opensuse, actually, I haven't looked into that much so I don't know a lot myself, but check it out
Juan Russell
I'm retarded, recommend me a music player with a wall of album art?
I updated Manjaro and now Lollypop doesn't launch. I'm literally too stupid to understand why.
And how would an absolute linux babby like me download/install this?
Carter Smith
install yay Read the wiki on aur helpers and makepkg
Xavier Gonzalez
>download a snapshot from aur.archlinux.org >cd into your downloads directory >tar -xzvf [package_name] >cd into package directory >makepkg -si alternatively, RTFM
Nobody asked to call systems with GNU tools GNU/something. You should call the GNU system GNU and the variant of it with Linux GNU/Linux. Spend some minutes and meditate this.
Ryder Bailey
>advising anyone to use their distros package manager and not compiling everything by hand and installing it by hand and updating it by hand
Ryan Ward
Thanks, but I did it a bit differently in the end. Went into the pamac settings, enabled AUR support, found it there and just let it build it for me.
stop replying to these troll posts in every thread. it just attracts more of them and defeats the whole point of the original general
Wyatt Myers
>want to make a boot usb stick >people tell me that making a boot stick in Linux is a hassle why? why does something THIS fundamental have to be such a hassle? this is why this "OS"(i.e "obsolete shit") will never kick off with end users
Matthew Wright
ouch, lurk moar newfriend :^)
Easton Young
cat is the best text efitor
Wyatt Miller
You really need to go back to /v/ mate
Austin Baker
>dd if=gentoo.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4m status=progress fuck off
Jacob Price
I dont use gnu on my system I dont use coreutils I dont use gcc
I will not call my system gnu anything when I DO NOT USE GNU
Samuel Rivera
you've missed the point, the reason pacman doesn't handle AUR packages in the first place is because they're not safe, and require the user to check if they're OK, they're unsupported packages, and yay is both not the distros' package manager, and it itself is also not a supported package
Parker Richardson
>using gnu software
Adam Stewart
>some gibberish wow really btfo
Camden Long
Meditate a little bit longer. You will get well soon.
Robert Reyes
>too much of a brainlet to read up on things yeah, linux is not for you
Ryan Ortiz
THEN GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE FAGGOT
David Ortiz
Can someone post the link to the vector collection again, please?
Caleb James
Reinstalling from Octopi didn't work ldd is too big brain for me
Feels bad to be a brainlet
Tyler Scott
you know you can quite literally just # cp gentoo.iso /dev/sdb right?
Adrian Murphy
You should meditate, too. Stay professional, friendly and don't feed the trolls.
>first there was /flt/ >then where was /fglt/ >now you want just /fgt/ what do you have against linux, gnu-kun?
Xavier Sullivan
When I bind a key to run a custom script from i3config it seems like it's executed with a delay, compared to when I just cue all its commands in the i3config file. Is this normal? What is the best practice?
Eli Carter
It's true. You can also use cat or whatever that writes to a file. dd is preferred since you can control the block size.
>unsupported AUR is hosted on the offical ArchLinux Website, by t he ArchLinux Developers. The AUR website and all it's software is directly managed by Trusted User assigned by the Archlinux Developers. All programs are monitored by ArchLinux Offical Users.
So anything not in the [core] repo shouldnt be installed since technically it isnt the intended software?
Kill your self
Every AUR helper is just a wrapper around pacman libapm that can access the AUR API. Thats it >any ease of use program shouldnt be used because i only want to use make Again Kill Your Self
Gavin Jones
that's really neat, actually. would cp be slower compared to dd?
Daniel Sanchez
please stop telling people to kill themselves
Jordan Evans
>getting this heated up over an online argument about package managers
Im sorry for autism. Please forgive me. Also reminder to test commands strangers give you before running them, because people are assholes
Jaxson Evans
>AUR is hosted on the offical ArchLinux Website, by t he ArchLinux Developers. doesn't imply support >The AUR website and all it's software is directly managed by Trusted User assigned by the Archlinux Developers. the community repo is, but not the aur, they are not the same thing /anybody/ can make an aur package, and update it with anything at anytime, it is as safe as running scripts from Jow Forums posts, they are NOT CHECKED BY ANYBODY EXCEPT THE END USERS i say this as someone who maintains 11 aur packages, i know how it works
Parker Hall
You are, in fact, retarded.
Colton Hernandez
Can I get openbox to change fonts through terminal commands on manjaro? Please help I'm really screwed here.
na, there is things dd can do that cp can't, but it's irrelevant for just putting an image on a disk as-is if you really need a progress bar, pv has a nice one (use it like cat)
Asher Edwards
sort < file | tee file
Elijah Thompson
You don't call windows "NT" or mac os "Darwin". It should only be "GNU", the GNU OS from the GNU project.
Christian Mitchell
I don't use dead wms but I am pretty sure you can just edit .config/openbox/rc.xml and change the font from there
Jayden Hughes
You can adjust the speed with dd's bs= settings.
Jayden Stewart
even when talking about Linux distros that don't use GNU, like Alpine? which run the same software, and are 99% compatible with everything talked about in these threads?
Matthew Bennett
As long as you reply, she will reply too.
Grayson Rodriguez
bs=100000000
Anthony Thomas
No, GNU is the creator, GNU Core Utilities is their product, there is a large amount of other GNU software which is not found on many GNU Core Utilities systems. You are in fact using GNU Core Utilities, or alternatively coreuttils.
Welcome to /fcug/ friendly coreutils general.
Matthew Hughes
someone recommend me a fun distro to install on my old thinkpad pls
Christian Parker
Arch is a great coreutils distribution.
Nathan Howard
I've installed Arch countless times (I use it right now, btw), I am looking for something meme-y. I may try Plan9 actually.
Blake Thompson
Alpine is compatble because it emulates the GNU system using programs with a smaller footprint and less features. Luckily Alpine provides all GNU software in its repositories, so if you decide to actually use Alpine, you can turn the emulator into a working system. However, Alpine is initially not a GNU system, so nobody would ask you to call it the GNU system. Btw, i think 99% is a bit high, don't you think?
Christopher Baker
Fedora systemd
Logan Ramirez
Slackware
Thomas Richardson
netbsd
Lincoln Richardson
that would be finished in 10 minutes clicking through a GUI, not much fun at all. Or am I missing something?
Landon Jenkins
>bs=BYTES >N and BYTES may be followed by the >following multiplicative suffixes: c=1, >w=2, b=512, kB=1000, K=1024, >MB=1000*1000, M=1024*1024, xM=M, >GB=1000*1000*1000, >G=1024*1024*1024, and >so on for T, P, E, Z, Y. I'm wondering of 1Y would crash my system.
Jonathan Hall
this should be interesting, downloading it right now
