The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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GoysGoneWild said:
Is Devuan actually catching significant market share from Debian? Don't get me wrong I'd love it if that was the case but......
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Oh, probably not.

But people who actually care about human beings being able to use Linux? Those people are the kind of volunteers the Debian project relies on exploiting. And they can't mistreat them too badly or they'll give all that up and move exclusively to Devuan.
 
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Ok so it seems like installing NordVPN on Arch is a nightmare. Do you guys recommend any trustworthy VPNs for arch that have a GUI?

Don't hate, my wife bought me a year since she knows the horrors I bring upon myself by coming here. She's already annoyed I bought a coin.
 
Its been a year and a half since I've used Linux as my daily machine. Looking at Distrowatch, what the fuck is MX Linux and how'd it get so popular?

Also, is Slackware pretty much dead? More than 5 years on from the last major release.
 
Dr. Geronimo said:
Ok so it seems like installing NordVPN on Arch is a nightmare. Do you guys recommend any trustworthy VPNs for arch that have a GUI?

Don't hate, my wife bought me a year since she knows the horrors I bring upon myself by coming here. She's already annoyed I bought a coin.
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Network manager has a built-in GUI for VPN connections. If you are using a gui as opposed to command line to connect to Wifi and stuff right now, you're most likely already using network manager.

Download the Open VPN files. Install network-manager-openvpn from repositories. Restart.

Now go into network manager via the wifi/lan icon in the corner of your screen and set up a new connection. Import the .OPVN file you downloaded and set everything up. Now all you have to do is right click on Network manager and click the VPN connection whenever you want to connect.

You can poke around for more detailed tutorials if you need a better guide. I don't have a Linux machine in front of me so I'm going by memory.
 
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Dr. Geronimo said:
Ok so it seems like installing NordVPN on Arch is a nightmare. Do you guys recommend any trustworthy VPNs for arch that have a GUI?

Don't hate, my wife bought me a year since she knows the horrors I bring upon myself by coming here. She's already annoyed I bought a coin.
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I've been using Mullvad and it seems to be pretty good. I steered clear of those big name VPNs that sponsor all those youtubers. You have to manually build from source though for Arch I believe.
 
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Dr. Geronimo said:
At this point I'm moving back to Mint or Kubuntu. If something isn't on Pacman then it's a massive hassle.
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It's on the AUR, but at a glance it seems to be only CLI, unless any of these other search results turn out useful. Even then, Nord's download page for Linux doesn't seem to indicate that there is an official GUI there to speak of regardless of your distro.
 
419 said:
It's on the AUR, but at a glance it seems to be only CLI, unless any of these other search results turn out useful. Even then, Nord's download page for Linux doesn't seem to indicate that there is an official GUI there to speak of regardless of your distro.
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I can handle the lack of gui (although it's fucking retarded) the issue is having to compile it myself. They give you a .Deb to install with.
 
Dr. Geronimo said:
I can handle the lack of gui (although it's fucking retarded) the issue is having to compile it myself. They give you a .Deb to install with.
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Yeah, don't even worry about that in the slightest. Remember, one of the main reasons everyone praises Arch and its derivatives is because the AUR exists so you don't have to do any of that shit yourself, or at least as infrequently as possible. Just use an AUR helper as if it were another package manager and that's it.
 
Can anyone recommend a good batch audio converter for Linux? Something like winLAME but, you know, for Linux and that won't trash your audio half the time. Ideally I'd like something with a GUI where you can browse for files and save your preferred conversion settings.
I realize one could write a series of shell scripts to accomplish something akin to this from the command line with ffmpeg... but that "one" is not going to be me.
 
419 said:
Yeah, don't even worry about that in the slightest. Remember, one of the main reasons everyone praises Arch and its derivatives is because the AUR exists so you don't have to do any of that shit yourself, or at least as infrequently as possible. Just use an AUR helper as if it were another package manager and that's it.
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I was able to figure out how to make it work. It would've been nice to know that I could've toggled access to the AUR in the package manager but hey I figured it out.

My new issue now is that for some reason the damn clock isn't working. Despite setting my timezone right the clock is about 5 hours behind what it should be.
 
Dr. Geronimo said:
My new issue now is that for some reason the damn clock isn't working. Despite setting my timezone right the clock is about 5 hours behind what it should be.
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What timezone is your system clock really in? On machines where I dual-boot with Windows, the clock is in my local time zone, and then I have to set my Linux timezone to "nothing". If I set it to my actual time zone, I get a double adjustment.

I think there's some way to use the hwclock command to tell Linux your RTC is something other than UTC, but it never seems to "take" for me.
 
I have nobody else to say this to, but I just changed my raspberry pi's output resolution using SSH
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Dr. Geronimo said:
I have nobody else to say this to, but I just changed my raspberry pi's output resolution using SSH
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Now run a GUI program remotely, meaning the actual program is executed on the remote computer but the GUI is locally shown. Up the ante. Run a program on a remote GPU, (don't use proprietary solutions like steam) further up the ante, do the same but the remote computer running Linux doesn't even have a graphics card and renders the 3D intensive program/game completely in software. It is all possible.
 
Review of Pajeet Garuda Linux


Honestly if I were to use an Arch-based distro, it'd be either this one, or Arco Linux. Both seem pretty solid distros.
 
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Ahriman said:
Review of Pajeet Garuda Linux


Honestly if I were to use an Arch-based distro, it'd be either this one, or Arco Linux. Both seem pretty solid distros.
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Personally not a big fan of the color scheme but it does look cool.

Has anyone here used Zorin OS? I'm curious as to how a paid distro handles compared to most others.
 
Dr. Geronimo said:
I'm curious as to how a paid distro handles compared to most others.
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*yawn*
zorin.com

Zorin OS Pro - Zorin OS

Zorin OS Pro brings together the most advanced Open Source software so you can unleash the full potential of your computer.
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Looks like for $39 they'll install GIMP and Sneedacity from the package manager, include some fancier desktop environment skins, and give you "installation support".
 
Kosher Dill said:
*yawn*
zorin.com

Zorin OS Pro - Zorin OS

Zorin OS Pro brings together the most advanced Open Source software so you can unleash the full potential of your computer.
zorin.com zorin.com
Looks like for $39 they'll install GIMP and Sneedacity from the package manager, include some fancier desktop environment skins, and give you "installation support".
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I "yo ho ho and a bottle of rum"-ed the Pro version, and it's ok. Would absolutely not pay 39$ for it though. I could see installing the normal version for someone's first distro.
 
Kosher Dill said:
Can anyone recommend a good batch audio converter for Linux? Something like winLAME but, you know, for Linux and that won't trash your audio half the time. Ideally I'd like something with a GUI where you can browse for files and save your preferred conversion settings.
I realize one could write a series of shell scripts to accomplish something akin to this from the command line with ffmpeg... but that "one" is not going to be me.
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I've been using soundKonverter for awhile and it works well for my needs
 
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