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/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Th(...) 02/16/26(Mon)19:15:45 No.108166527
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/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread Anonymous 02/16/26(Mon)19:15:45 No.108166527
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:
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Anonymous
02/16/26(Mon)19:22:06 No.108166582
Anonymous 02/16/26(Mon)19:22:06 No.108166582
My distro > your distro
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Anonymous
02/16/26(Mon)19:24:14 No.108166596
Anonymous 02/16/26(Mon)19:24:14 No.108166596
>>108165277
>but until then let me enjoy the current peace i have
I don't use Fedora, but I feel the same way.
I'm not gonna pretend the road to setting up Linux to my exact preferences has been hassle free and painless, but the small annoyance of leaving my Winshit comfort zone has been more than worth it in the end. Even if in the future the distros I use go to shit for whatever reason, I'll enjoy what I have now, and what I have now is very good, and I'll cherish it while I can.
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Anonymous
02/16/26(Mon)20:02:23 No.108166884
Anonymous 02/16/26(Mon)20:02:23 No.108166884
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Anonymous
02/16/26(Mon)20:04:53 No.108166907
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I'm kind of retarded, how do I write a script to disable the touch screen/trackpad on my laptop on boot and/or login? Preferably one that doesn't need root privileges but that's not a hard requirement. I already know what commands I need to disable them, I just don't know how to automatically apply them at startup
>sudo modprobe -r hid_multitouch
>sudo su
>echo "0018:2A94:A811.0002" > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-generic/unbind
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Anonymous
02/16/26(Mon)20:26:54 No.108167034
Anonymous 02/16/26(Mon)20:26:54 No.108167034
>>108166884
Chika!
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Anonymous
02/16/26(Mon)20:31:06 No.108167061
Anonymous 02/16/26(Mon)20:31:06 No.108167061
>>108166907
Isn't there like a key combination that disables it? On mine it's fn+f3
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Anonymous
02/16/26(Mon)20:41:28 No.108167117
Anonymous 02/16/26(Mon)20:41:28 No.108167117
from what I can gather, duckstation's dev threw a fit a while back and changed the license to something kinda read-only that you can't redistribute
Is there anything stopping me from compiling and using just for personal use? I tried briefly but it seems that he added a bunch of traps and checks

appimage is kinda shit
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Anonymous
02/16/26(Mon)20:41:36 No.108167120
Anonymous 02/16/26(Mon)20:41:36 No.108167120
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Im just using an old ass ubuntu live to move some data on this machine and holy shit gnome had transparent window borders. Is there a way to make this work on Mate?
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Anonymous
02/16/26(Mon)20:43:07 No.108167136
Anonymous 02/16/26(Mon)20:43:07 No.108167136
>>108166907
Usually you disable such things with xinput, no root required.
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Anonymous
02/16/26(Mon)20:47:05 No.108167164
Anonymous 02/16/26(Mon)20:47:05 No.108167164
>>108167136
Sorry, should specify that I'm on Ubuntu and Xinput isn't installed by default, and I would rather not install it if I don't have to.
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Anonymous
02/16/26(Mon)20:50:16 No.108167175
Anonymous 02/16/26(Mon)20:50:16 No.108167175
>install Mint
>use for few weeks
>install Cachy
>use for a few weeks
>install Ubuntu
>use for a few weeks
>urge to install a new Distro
How do I stop this?
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Anonymous
02/16/26(Mon)20:53:18 No.108167199
Anonymous 02/16/26(Mon)20:53:18 No.108167199
>>108166907
Do you need a script? There may be an option to disable those devices on the GUI.
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Anonymous
02/16/26(Mon)20:53:27 No.108167200
Anonymous 02/16/26(Mon)20:53:27 No.108167200
>>108167175
proxmox. vm distros with hw passthrough
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Anonymous
02/16/26(Mon)20:54:09 No.108167206
Anonymous 02/16/26(Mon)20:54:09 No.108167206
>>108167120
Are you using compiz? It's been quite a while since I last used Ubuntu or GNOME 2, but I don't think that was the default behavior for windows. I remember using compiz to get effects like that. Ubuntu used to look so nice, that background looks like it may be gutsy gibbon.
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Anonymous
02/16/26(Mon)20:54:19 No.108167209
Anonymous 02/16/26(Mon)20:54:19 No.108167209
>>108167175
Virtual machines.
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Anonymous
02/16/26(Mon)20:55:20 No.108167218
Anonymous 02/16/26(Mon)20:55:20 No.108167218
>>108167199
Nope, at least not by default, I checked, I'm sure there's something I can install that does this but I'd rather not if I can help it.
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