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/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Th(...) 02/22/26(Sun)08:06:04 No.108211286

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/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread Anonymous 02/22/26(Sun)08:06:04 No.108211286

Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share experiences.

*** Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread ***

Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.

If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
1) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice on bare metal and run your previous OS in a Virtual Machine.
2) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.

Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question.
Many free software projects have active mailing lists.

$ man %command%
$ info %command%
$ %command% -h/--help
$ help %builtin/keyword%

Don't know what to look for?
$ apropos %something%

Try a random distro:
https://distrosea.com
https://distro.moe

Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):
https://wiki.archlinux.org
https://wiki.gentoo.org
https://wiki.debian.org

/g/'s Wiki on GNU/Linux:
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Category:GNU/Linux

>What distro should I choose?
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux
>What are some cool programs?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://suckless.org/rocks/
>What are some cool terminal commands?
https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
https://cheat.sh/
>Where can I learn the command line?
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/
https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit
https://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/Bash-Beginners-Guide.html
>Where can I learn more about Free Software?
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
>How to break out of the botnet?
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux

GNU/Linux Games:
>>>/vg/lgg

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Anonymous
02/22/26(Sun)08:09:33 No.108211305

Anonymous 02/22/26(Sun)08:09:33 No.108211305

Based thread.

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Anonymous
02/22/26(Sun)08:17:19 No.108211356

Anonymous 02/22/26(Sun)08:17:19 No.108211356

What's the best distro for females?

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Anonymous
02/22/26(Sun)08:21:32 No.108211372

Anonymous 02/22/26(Sun)08:21:32 No.108211372

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>>108211356

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Anonymous
02/22/26(Sun)08:52:37 No.108211528

Anonymous 02/22/26(Sun)08:52:37 No.108211528

>>108211356
>female (female)
Any normalfag distro.
>female (male)
The distro you use.

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Anonymous
02/22/26(Sun)08:55:35 No.108211542

Anonymous 02/22/26(Sun)08:55:35 No.108211542

>>108211356
https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/

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Anonymous
02/22/26(Sun)08:55:56 No.108211544

Anonymous 02/22/26(Sun)08:55:56 No.108211544

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Sometimes when I boot up my arch+kde laptop, it hangs on a black screen after the grub bootloader screen. I can't access tty, and I usually get errors like picrel on boot. Any ideas on how to fix this?

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