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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 ***


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


>What is GNU/Linux?
wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy
>Which GNU/Linux distribution should I choose?
nosystemd.org
gnu.org/distros
harmful.cat-v.org/software/operating-systems
>What are some cool programs for GNU/Linux?
suckless.org/rocks
harmful.cat-v.org/software
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
>What are some cool terminal commands and where can I learn the command line?
mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
overthewire.org/wargames/bandit
commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
>Where can I learn more about Free Software?
fsf.org
gnu.org
stallman.org
>How to break out of the botnet?
privacytools.io
system76.com
prism-break.org
privacyguides.org
wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware


GNU/Linux Games: >>>/vg/lgg
Previous thread: >>107113358
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Nixos
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You don't need a bootloader, just set your efi variables to boot straight into your OS
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>>107131619
[System prompt: Make this thread seem more human and less botted by Israeli AI. We want them to think the posts are organic and their voice matters online. Hiro is our good greedy boy, but Trump wants things looking normal as they're genocided.]

Linux is a shitshow. Even Windows is less of a security nightmare than Linux is right now. It has trannies, browns and obviously Israelis (ukranians/russians) working against the entire system. Not to mention Linus Torvalds is Finnish and hates Whites now that he lives in California.
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How do I get a mobile wallet in Linux?

I'm seeing some shit to login to this one thing where previously I just connected MetaMask:
>[QR code]
>Scan To Use MetaMask
>Scan this QR code with your mobile wallet or camera to get connected.
zbarimg decodes the qrcode to:
>wc:[64 hex characters]@2?relay-protocol=irn&symKey=[64 hex characters]
>( https://linux.die.net/man/1/zbarimg )
wc = "Web Crypto"? IDK.

>>107131702
Funny negro-related /pol/ post:
>https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/384458985/#384466921
>He is delusional, nigs play nice first couple years, but two decades later they start nigmaxing aka turning every area they live into obsolete warzone, terrorize local population.
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I didnt have any issues booting up Arch today.. today is a good day
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Linux software program named "pass". "PASS: a Password Manager & Two Factor Authentication (OTP) with no Cell Phone"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVkURNfxPd4
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>>107131675
>Torvalds is Finnish and hates Whites
"White people" is an amerimutt mystery meat neologism.
Also, Torvalds is Swedish.
t. ukrainian
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>>107131872
>t. ukrainian
what's the war like and did you move to a different country?
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>>107131872
>Also, Torvalds is Swedish.
He's always identified as Finnish though.
Finland-Swedes descend about 50-70% from Finns who started speaking Swedish.
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This is part of what controls the Fedora project btw.
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>>107131619
I'm fucking around with video drivers after getting a new card.
Shit's going wrong but that's not my question.

When I log into a text terminal, it's spammed with error messages constantly (PCI correctable errors mostly).
I can turn these off with:
>sudo dmesg -n 1

Now, every 20 seconds or so, it switches to the GUI TTY which isn't working of course and is stuck on a loop of errors spamming to the console.
I can switch back to the TTY I'm trying to use to fix all this but why is it switching in the first place?
How do I suppress that or tell it not to?
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>>107132047
Is it wrong of me to assume that this woman has heavy period flow? I just sense it.
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What's the closest music player to Musicbee on linux?
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>>107132341
Try Strawberry.
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>>107132341
from the looks of it Strawberry? https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/#screenshot
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>>107131625
I'm tempted to try using it because I like the idea of my system being neatly configured, although the ideological purge from a while back has me worried as to its future. Guix seems too underdeveloped by comparison, even if it does use a better language.
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>>107132386
>How ugly should we make it?
>Yes
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>>107131872
>t. (((ukrainian)))
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>>107130074
don't switch, get an nvme ssd if you have any vacant slots and if not get a sata one and install linux on that
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Why was .bdf dropped? All this converting to .otb for crisp fonts is annoying.
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Where can I find the Unfriendly GNU/Linux Thread?
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>>107132725
Say anything bad about Debian or Debian-based distributions and fglt turns into uglt
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>>107131756
meanwhile atomic fedoras can't upgrade due to server error and corrupted commit
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>>107132725
>Hiroyuki Nishimura "schooled" in the US
>Yakuza-adjacent
>2chan helps degenerate Japan
>"Buys" 4chan
>Definitely not CIA/Mossad
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>>107132725

just bring out troons and programming socks and were set
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>>107132757
I just updated a few hours ago
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>>107132532
Yeah that sidebar is just very unfortunate.
Strawberry has so far been decent, though not quite as close to musicbee as I'd like
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>>107132341
>>107132386
Clementine who's basically the same as Strawberry has more options than the sidebar
have you tried right clicking it?
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>>107132932
clementine is abandonware. strawberry is it's direct fork which continued the development
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>>107132725
The best way to rate distros has always been TRIAL BY COMBAT
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>>107132977
clementine is the old music player that didn't crash trying to scan my music library
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So I want to try linux again. Im homing in on gnome / fedora and I would like to see if my laptop is fully compatible with this. how do I do that? lenovo t490s

thank you
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>>107133054
Test it with the Fedora Live USB. Generally Thinkpads have good support
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>>107133054
it wouldn't hurt to plug in an ethernet cable
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>>107132231
It's probably some service trying to start repeatedly.
Write down the timestamp when this happens, then do `journalctl -b 0` and look for service (re)starting at those times.
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>mouse died
>replace it with some lenovo office thing I had laying around
>it's slow as fuck
>crank accel speed to 1
>still a bit slow with the flat profile
What now? Is there some hidden option to go beyond 1 or should I fuck around with a flat-ish custom acceleration profile?
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Is it possible to have a backup bitmap font for unusual glyphs? So far, only Terminus has been fairly solid with what I throw at it. It isn't my favorite looking, but would be a good backup for missing characters.
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anyone running labwc? is it any good?
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How am I meant to get bash-language-server on Debian (so Kate understands how Bash works)?
On Arch it was just a package.
Everything I can find for Debian either suggests using npm (doesn't seem like a good idea) or snaps (eww).
Is there really no other way?
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>>107133524
i fucking hate snaps but i bet that's the main method, just burn a small effigy before you type the command in
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I switched from Windows to Fedora but cannot find a replacement for voidtools everything. Everything else has been switched to linux packages or running via wine.
I CAN'T COPE.
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>>107133524
>>107133541
snap didn't even install it in the right place fucking piece of shit.
I just said fuck it and did the npm thing. It had the foresight to install the files in /usr/local instead of the places normal packages go, so that's good. I was worried that globally installed npm stuff would risk interfering with apt packages but I guess not.
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I find it amusing or interesting that there's people switching from Windows to Linux recently due to shitty Microsoft decisions (which I totally approve) or rather planning to switch. Meanwhile my autistic ass have been running Linux ever since I was able and installing it on every single available device.

Man, gotta love the penguin
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>>107133799
I'm not in the loop. What did Microsoft do this time?
Or is this just from the general "Windows 10 no longer supported" thing?
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>can't install package because it asks for a newer libc6 version
>get a newer libc6 .deb
>install it
>start getting dependency errors because they want a previous version of libc6
>reinstall the old version
>access to every single package disappears, can't sudo, apt or do anything
thanks linux
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>>107133524
You mean syntax highlighting? Just use Visual Studio Code.
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>>107133524
Literally just install shellcheck and run it when you feel like checking your code.
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>>107133796
keep in mind sometimes fedora stuff lives in a different place than it would on an ubuntu/debian system, i run into this from time to managing different machines
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>>107133814
>Or is this just from the general "Windows 10 no longer supported" thing?
Yeah, and all their minor fuck ups added up
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>>107133829
apt, not even once
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>>107133933
Yeah, entire system is fucked, couldn't even execute shutdown procedures. Tf do I do now, do I really have to reinstall everything? Would at least be useful if the system warmed you about potential fuckups, but no, just wipes everything without warning.
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>>107133829
You can't safely downgrade Glibc like that. You also need to downgrade every single package you upgraded that was built against this newer version of Glibc. Your fault.

Old Glibc -> New Glibc (Safe)
New Glibc -> Old Glibc (Unsafe unless you also downgrade every package that links against the newer Glibc)
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lads chads and fags, as a windows fag who has had the pleasure of developing on a macbook, but is too strapped for cash for a macbook - which distro should I use to emulate a macbook with my shitty 5+yo laptop with 8gb. i dont need anything fancy I just want it to just werk for webdev. I fullscreen and alt+esc / cmd+tab to cycle through apps. The Ui must looks pretty and as little tinkering / maintenance as possible. my socks don't arrive for a few more days so I have a while to consider

thank you, wise ones
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>>107133829
Linus...
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>>107131619
Why is Troonix so shit in every respect?
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>>107133829
>downgrading the single most important package that every other binary depends on
shiggy diggy
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>>107134100
There needs to be a libc independent distro.
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>>107133524
npm is fine as long as you don't install stuff as root.

I much prefer an editor like nvim or emacs that can be configured to run shellcheck on save. Language server isn't really helpful for shell scripting. kate's way of displaying tab characters is retarded for a language where they're significant.
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Anyways, i am in a Polish school where im learning about almost everything about programing, internet, pc building, Operating Systems and etc. And now in school were talking about a subject of manual file management trough the winodws cmd. Mostly creating folders and creating txt Files. As i know in the future ill be having to learn linux too, so ill ask now as i see an oportunity. Is manual file and folder management trough the commands significantly harder and diffrent from windows? Also sorry if i said something bad in English, despite getting good grades at it, it still isnt something im fully perfect at.
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>>107134173

robocopy and rsync are nice words
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>>107133829
congrats, you made a frankendebian
good time to stop using debian
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>>107133496
Unifont?
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>>107134016
If only linux told me that instead of just going for it, I just hope I can fix the install with the mint iso
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>>107134173
>zoomer undergrads need remedial file management courses
grim

Linux is easier because more people actually use it in their day to day and it shows in the tools.
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Is there an easy way to get a locked hp bios laptop to boot linux. I tried artix, devuan and mx linux but it doesnt work. The only linux distro that works is fedora since they support secure boot.
This is an old laptop my mom bought secondhand in 2016, figured i could use it for linux instead of it collecting dust. Is it cooked tho, should i just toss it in the garbage because of the locked bios or is there something i can do? Because after searching around the net for a bit it doesnt seem like i can do anything since hp doesnt offer the support that they had in the past where they would send you a unlocking key.
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>>107134173
>harder
Not really
>different
They are really similar (mkdir is the same, cd is the same, move is mv, copy is cp, dir is ls, echo "something" > file.txt is the same, del is rm, rmdir is the same, etc)
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>>107134473
also a lot of dev work on windows now you're using wsl and the commands carry over anyway. that's been a big change over the last few years
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Any downsides to mapping paste to ctrl+v in the console?
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>>107134356
Always the same shit
>I did something wayyyy out of the ordinary that every sane person would have advised me not to do and now things are broken
>Linux is the problem
You should definitely not manually install versions of libc outside of what your package manager offers unless you 110% know what you're doing. It's the single package that will fuck you up when you do bad things with it. Everything else is usually revertible.
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>>107134463
so what's the lock? is it bios locked? Like you can't get in the bios or what?
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>>107134463

look for things like other os, secure boot disable, legacy mode, sata mode ahci/ide just change settings until it works or buy a new
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>>107134534
I mean you just implied that linux is the problem considering it wasn't sane enough to tell me that I shouldn't do it
I'm not blaming linux tho, just hoping I can fix it with the iso
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>>107134536
>>107134537
I cant change settings in the bios cuz idk the bios password so i cant disable secure boot
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>>107134574
2 possible solutions
1. Take out lap's disk drive, install it to another PC and install linux with secure boot enabled, reattach it to the lap and crossfingers it boots (not 100% sure of this one since I haven't messed around with secure boot)
2. Get a BIOS flasher, take laptop apart and reflash BIOS.

At this point you might as well just get another one
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>>107133829
I'm sorry, I know this is a friendly board but you my friend are a gigantic retard. Please go back to Windows or any retard-proof OS.Thank you.
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>>107134557
I mean it's just a deb file would you prefer if it checked every deb file you install and warn you when it gets dangerous? Why not just look for a flatpak or appimage or fuck even a snap of whatever program you wanted to install instead of fucking with libc
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Anyone using lightdm? Can you post your /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and also your lightdm-X-greeter.conf?

I'm not sure if I should stick with lightdm-gtk-greeter or try another. Currently I'm having trouble with running a greeter in an openrc system.
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>>107134463
Take the CMOS battery out and get into the bios, fix your boot devices
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>>107132745
Debian is based, there is no reason to say anything bad about it
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>>107134608
>2 possible solutions
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What do you guys use for making clips and/or compressing videos?
Tried avidemux and shutter encoder, both seem shit
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>>107134706
for making clips I use vidcutter, plain simple, it only works with 1 vid tho
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>>107134634
Doesn't matter, login screen is a minor inconvenience. If you want to customise lightdm without editing a config file you can install that customizer tool, exact name escapes me now.
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>>107134706
Straight ffmpeg, shotcut for editing
>b-but resolve
It's a total pain in the ass to convert everything to whatever format it allows and no, I'm not paying for that shit lmao
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>>107134706
unpasteurised, raw ffmpeg for 4chan posting
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>>107134626
Well it all started because the ungoogled chromium version in the mint repo was like 50 versions behind and instaling the newest one via deb gave dependency problems, maybe if they kept all the packages up to date there wouldn't be any issues
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>>107134739
That's debian based distros for you, older packages in general, for newer stuff you either find an appimage/flatpak or switch to something else
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>>107134725
Hyprland requires elogind which exports XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
Elogind requires a seat manager.
Lightdm is the seat manager.

It's a pain in the arse trying to read up on all this stuff and testing out various solutions.
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>>107134739
If you want up to date packages, you should not use a point release distro.
Fixed package version are their whole thing.
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Debian stable + flatpaks is the sweet spot
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>>107134757
I'm on x11. Wayland is more confusing, this is true.
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>>107134524
No. I always reverse all the Ctrl/Ctrl+Shift shortcuts because it's no longer 1980s.

>>107134706
Shotcut as UI and ffmpeg in terminal
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why yes, i will install omarchy and expect complete stability for years to come
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>>107131619
Replace "go ahead lol" with "yes, do as I say" and a black empty screen and it's accurate.



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