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What's the story behind both bin and sbin symlinking to usr/bin? On that note, lib and lib64 to usr/lib?
Matthew Jenkins
Does anyone have a script to rename all files in the current dir to .? I had a script that did this (thanks to some user) but I lost it with an old backup.
I'm digging the archives but can't find something similar. One, for example, uses sha1sums, which means I can't re-run the script to get a different name.
Elijah Allen
i just bought a chromebook bc i got an extremely good deal on one. i highly anticipate restoring some functionality through the integrated linux vm (gparted and rufus etc.). does someone know how well that might work?
Evan Taylor
(((freedesktop.org))) brain damage
Joshua Price
void linux
Eli Evans
First for
• Fedora is the new Ubuntu • snap is dead • KDE Plasma is a buggy mess • Steam's proton made gaming on Linux viable • There's nothing wrong with nvidia drivers unless you're retarded • XFCE is the best DE • mpv > vlc • grub2 is good
As a new linux user who just installed Arch and took him 2 days on a VM with a lot of handholding from kind anons. Should I just install a DE or spend the extra time to install a window manager and other tools like all the cool people?
Josiah Green
the /usr merge stuff has been going on for donkey's years. /bin and /usr/bin only ever got split in the first place because back in the 1970s V7 overflowed a single disk, the second disk was /usr (which stood for "user", it was what we now use /home for) so they just swiped some extra space for more programs. At that time /bin had to have everything needed to bring up the system far enough to be able to mount /usr, among other things.
so in other words they're trying to undo some historical complexity that came about because the FHS wasn't really thought out so much as it evolved.
Caleb Perry
$ cat /bin/cat cat: /bin/cat: No such file or directory
Bentley Perez
mktemp is ez and ensures no name clobbering find -type f -print0 | while read -d $'\0' i; do mv -f "$i" "$(mktemp XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX."${i##*.}")"; done
Logan Richardson
Very nice. Thank you!
Sebastian Morales
Personally I would make my daily driver home pc as easy to use as possible. install a DE with a WM. I've fallen in love with gnome and its horizontal keyboard based workflow. It's fast.
Logan Nelson
How can I make every directory under /usr/local/bin be added to $PATH?
Carter Ross
>• Fedora is the new Ubuntu Why do you say this? Because you hate snaps and therefore you want a new "default" distro?
Eli Cooper
because ubuntu's release model is retarded and makes it a broken hodgepodge of old and new. Fedora now is the new default out-of-the-box just werks distro. It's the simply has the best balance of being current and stability. I don't hate snaps, flatpak is just better and ubuntu is stuck in the past because of their shit model. Fedora also changed to pipewire and wayland before ubuntu, and it was a first to support LVFS for hardware support, driver support is just better.
tldr ubuntu in it's quest to stay the most stable is now old and busted. it's a boomer distro.
Jacob Hernandez
How do I check the size of a file transferred with FTP in wireshark? I'm seeing the frame size but I don't think that's the same thing as the file size (it might be if the file is small enough to be transferred in a single packet, but that seems deceiving since a packet would have info other than the file itself).
