/flt/ - Friendly Linux Thread

A productive general about Linux + other UNIX like operating systems (GNU, BSD, Solaris, Darwin, Minix welcome) intended for users of all levels, including absolute beginners. People who have questions about migrating to Linux, ask here and maybe Any Forums can help. Maybe you have something tying you to Windows, but there might be some UNIX software to help. Feel free to post your setups (dotfiles too), screenshots, applications, new stuff you did etc.

Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly Linux Thread.

There are four ways to try Linux, you can:

1) Install a Linux OS on a VM (Virtual Machine/VirtualBox) for "safety purposes"
2) Use the Live ISO directly without installing anything, that way, you can get a "full Linux experience".
3) Dual-boot Linux with Windows/Mac (recommend if you want to learn more about Linux)
4) Go balls deep and overwrite everything with Linux (not recommended)

If you are serious about switching to Linux and if you have Windows dual-booted, we recommend you use it exclusively for two weeks, and avoid Windows dual booting for that period of time, or it's likely you will start retreating back to windows instead of getting used to Linux as your new home and working on making it feel the way you want it.

Before asking, have a look at the resources below.

Resources:
man
your friendly neighborhood search engine
codecademy.com/en/courses/learn-the-command-line
wiki.archlinux.org/
wiki.installgentoo.com/
nix.neocities.org/

Understand that much of your software from Windows will be unavailable, although maybe wine can make up for it.

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github.com/roddhjav/pass-tomb#pass-tomb
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

Is there software like hydrus that is well... not hydrus?
>stash
Seems to only work on mainstream pornography

Its a single drive with 20 gb of data, some snap apps and files.

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I use xprop to find info like WM_CLASS but is there a way to get that same info for a process that does not spawn a window? I have a lua script that uses xprop for mpv but sometimes I start mpv without a window which make the script useless

I need help /flt/ I'm getting filtered HARD by audio on my arch install. First time using linux seriously and everything is great except when I get an audio issue. My question is how do I change the audio output via CLI? I'm using pipewire/wireplumber and I'm too retarded even after googling for help and reading the docs I still feel like I'm looking in the wrong place. I'm using pavucontrol but I'm wanting to not have to keep it open all the time. Thanks

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>watching something in firefox/chromium
>launch 'mpv --mute'
>close mpv
>audio seems to eat its buffer and dumps the audio in the future a few seconds
I dont know how else to explain this
Using pipewire/wireplumber,i think both firefox/chromium uses native pipewire sink if not then its using pulse

>but I'm wanting to not have to keep it open all the time
You dont have too? lol wt f you doing bro
also install catia and route it in the patchbay

Gentoomen, what USE flags should I use when making binary packages?

Does anyone have some nice shell script for renaming multiple files? I'm thinking of writing one that would handle changing file extensions or renaming them to some string with incremental numbers. Guess it's best to first ask here if someone would like to share.

I'm switching from keepass to pass.
Good decision, bad decision?

pass is nice, but it is best if used along with tomb[1] which has a zsh dependency. I dislike that.

[1] github.com/roddhjav/pass-tomb#pass-tomb

It comes down to this...

Mint Xfce or Xubuntu?

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Thunar has a very nice batch/bulk renamer included, why not use that?

I have a similar problem, I'm trying to copy timestamps from an android system in bulk. Something like "touch -r'phone-internal-storage/Downloads/[file]' ~/Phonebak/Downloads/[samefile]". If anyone knows how to make script that can do this, I would appreciate it very much.

Is there a way to restore the classic KDE window decorations for Plasma? If not does anyone have decent documentation on theme making? I'd like to port some of my old E16 themes

Only really matters what C{,XX}FLAGS you set.

Mint is more stable and has more configurable out of the box but is also slower and bloated.

>also install catia and route it in the patchbay
I went ahead and did that and it works fine. What I really wanted thought was simple way to change outputs via a terminal. I meant to say I'd rather use an alias in terminal than have to open pavucontrol every time I want to switch to headphones or speakers.

For me, it's gnew geeks.

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Been using xfce for years and never learned the keyboard shortcuts. Anyone know any good ones?

I'm of the belief that Mint is a frankendebian. Go with Xubuntu. New LTS release next month, I think?

using a thinkpad x240, i have an issue with the audio on any linux distro; it's nearly half the volume of what I get using W10, even after applying digital gain via the pulse/alsa interface (which just makes the sound tinnier and distorted as opposed using W10 where it's better quality along with higher volume). It's a common issue with no solutions.

Please, someone, give me a fix. Currently using Ubuntu 21.10 but it's the same issue on a stock Arch, Manjaro and free and nonfree Debian installs.

please help, giv fix
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you can go down that route but youll find its more complex then neeed and youll just use catia/pavu

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Friendly Linux Thread, is in fact, Friendly GNU/Linux Thread, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Friendly GNU plus Linux Thread. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Friendly Linux" threads are really Friendly GNU/Linux Threads.