General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Year of the Linux Desktop! - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=AtomicSans;52517199]Switching from Xubuntu to debian stable wish me luck bois [editline]28th July 2017[/editline] this the worst thing ever, I can't find my non-free wireless firmware anywhere [editline]28th July 2017[/editline] my wireless card is somehow in none of the official or unofficial packages ubuntu did this fine from the get-go, how can debian be this useless[/QUOTE] Debian themselves ain't too keen on non-free drivers. Canonical (and therefor Ubuntu or Ubuntu based Mint) isn't so anal about that. Probably try and find which package(s) contain the driver binaries, and snatch them from the repo of the latest Ubuntu version based on your Debian version.

Linux 4.12.3 has been finally released to the core group from testing....Suddenly it got stuck in "Starting version 234" in both Zen and main kernel :v:

I wanna install Linux on my laptop, should I go with arch, fedora or debian? Which DE should I use? Haven't used Linux as my primary OS in years, so I have no idea what's popular these days :v:

[QUOTE=Xyrec;52518865]I wanna install Linux on my laptop, should I go with arch, fedora or debian? Which DE should I use? Haven't used Linux as my primary OS in years, so I have no idea what's popular these days :v:[/QUOTE] Linux Mint, Ubuntu (and it's flavours), Manjaro or just Fedora. You may be doing some distro hopping until you find a fitting one, i recommend playing around with VirtualBox. Just make sure to install some packages in your virtual machine which lets you support the graphics driver for the software. As for DE, it depends on your specs. You can always switch between desktops you wish to use before logging in, but if you are used to Windows you can check out Cinnamon, XFCE or KDE Plasma 5 (As of 5.10 version it has enabled showing desktop icons by default). I have started with Ubuntu, then moved into Elementary OS, then to Linux Mint, to Antergos (ArchLinux based) and stayed with ArchLinux with Cinnamon installed which is pretty much perfect for my laptop from 2010.

Depending on your situation, yeah, distro and DE hopping is probably the right answer. The safest bets though will probably be Ubuntu or Fedora. If you want an "easier" arch linux you can also try Antergos or Manjaro. Antergos is mostly just a pretty installer, and Manjaro keeps their own repos and has a pretty different setup. There's a lot of really good DEs right now. GNOME and Plasma (new KDE) are the two big ones. A lot of distros create their own interesting DEs too, like solus with budgie, and elementary OS with whatever they call theirs. The safest choice regarding DEs will probably be GNOME, Plasma, or XFCE. Those 3 will have the biggest communities and the most direct support. Or.... if you were into window managers back in your day. Find something that inspires you off of [URL="https://reddit.com/r/unixporn"]r/unixporn[/URL]

Now the Kubuntu won't even boot from USB since I've given up on debian I don't remember how I managed to get Xubuntu to install and this is becoming more and more of a headache because my laptop doesn't have an optical drive

[QUOTE=Xyrec;52518865]I wanna install Linux on my laptop, should I go with arch, fedora or debian? Which DE should I use? Haven't used Linux as my primary OS in years, so I have no idea what's popular these days :v:[/QUOTE] Would suggest Antergos (based on Arch) since it's a pretty good minimal install from the get go, and includes 5 (6?) DE's as options so you can try them out.

[QUOTE=sam6420;52520352]1. Make sure the USB is set up correctly, try using different software to create bootable usbs, some work better than others in my experience. (Rufus is usually good) 2. If you're having trouble booting the USB, check your bios to make sure everything is set up correctly, sometimes there are options in your bios that disable usb boot without telling you. (Things like fast boot)[/QUOTE] yeah rufus made it bootable. Win32diskImager seems to not be too good for this purpose.

[QUOTE=Xyrec;52518865]I wanna install Linux on my laptop, should I go with arch, fedora or debian? Which DE should I use? Haven't used Linux as my primary OS in years, so I have no idea what's popular these days :v:[/QUOTE] Got everything setup, Arch with Gnome. :trumpet: I've missed not having all of the bullshit in Windows, holy shit.

Hey, after upgrading my arch's kernel version to 4.12, I lost 50% of my RAM. my BIOS, and win10 can still see 32GB of RAM, but linux shows me only 16GB. w t f

Your... bios? You're probably gonna want to ask that in the Arch IRC since that sounds like a pretty esoteric problem. They might know what logs to check or something Does it work properly if you boot another Linux on the same kernel version?

That feeling when you solve a problem you've been trying to deal with for several hours, and having no idea what you did to solve it. :huh: Wasn't able to start GNOME through GDM if I picked "Gnome on Xorg". Computer would just freeze for a second, turn the screen black and log me back out into GDM. Still have no idea why it works all of a sudden.

Got my RPi running, it's got a dynamic dns thingie so I can SSH into it from anywhere , including my phone. Already managed to take a few webcam pics with it as well. Question #1:on my router I just chose to forward port 420 to port 22 on the RPi, does it matter which port I use? Are some reserved/blocked/unsafe? Question #2: it's headless so should I do a full reinstall without the desktop environment to save resources? Also, I'd still like to be able to use some visual things (e.g. the image viewer "feh"), so are there distro's that support graphical apps but without all the rest?

[QUOTE=Number-41;52525802]Got my RPi running, it's got a dynamic dns thingie so I can SSH into it from anywhere , including my phone. Already managed to take a few webcam pics with it as well. Question #1:on my router I just chose to forward port 420 to port 22 on the RPi, does it matter which port I use? Are some reserved/blocked/unsafe? Question #2: it's headless so should I do a full reinstall without the desktop environment to save resources? Also, I'd still like to be able to use some visual things (e.g. the image viewer "feh"), so are there distro's that support graphical apps but without all the rest?[/QUOTE] 1. There are ports that are typically used for certain services (e.g. 80 is always HTTP) but I don't recall 420 being anything important. 2. If you still want to do visual stuff then don't bother reinstalling; just don't have the xserver start on startup. IIRC the RPi config utility makes this super easy to set. To answer the second part yes, and you can even go as far as not having a desktop environment and just running x alone for visual stuff when you need it, but I wouldn't mess with all that if you don't know what you're doing.

Okay, I do think my ISP blocked port 80 because they don't want you to actually run webservers on a home plan. Is there another common port that browsers check by default? I think duckdns doesn't have port forwarding so I might have to switch to noip.

[QUOTE=Number-41;52528096]Okay, I do think my ISP blocked port 80 because they don't want you to actually run webservers on a home plan. Is there another common port that browsers check by default? I think duckdns doesn't have port forwarding so I might have to switch to noip.[/QUOTE] You are misunderstanding what a DNS server does. Duckdns and noip only map a domain to your IP. If you want it running on a port other than 80 put a :8080 or something after the domain but before the /. [editline]1st August 2017[/editline] [URL="https://kasko.helifreak.club:1900/"]Like so[/URL]. [editline]1st August 2017[/editline] But your browser will use port 443 for [url]https://,[/url] and 20 for ftp:// links.

I worded it incorrectly, but what I get from [URL="http://www.noip.com/support/knowledgebase/how-to-configure-your-no-ip-hostname/"]this[/URL] is that they do support port redirecting, i.e. going to some domain name and being redirected to some IP [I]and[/I] a specific port. Or am I interpreting that page wrongly? [QUOTE]Port 80 Redirect: This option needs to be used if your ISP blocks port 80 like most commonly do. It enables you to reach your server without having to type the port after the hostname. Example: Without Port 80 redirect you would have to type in the following into your browser: yourhost.no-ip.org:8080. With Port 80 redirect you can simply type the hostname: yourhost.no-ip.org[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Number-41;52528155]I worded it incorrectly, but what I get from [URL="http://www.noip.com/support/knowledgebase/how-to-configure-your-no-ip-hostname/"]this[/URL] is that they do support port redirecting, i.e. going to some domain name and being redirected to some IP [I]and[/I] a specific port. Or am I interpreting that page wrongly?[/QUOTE] From what I can tell, you would be correct

Is there like, a really simple way of encrypting USBs that'll work easily across multiple OSes?

i was trying to install fedora on my desktop but during the installation i was experiencing really, really bad mouse and keyboard lag. like the mouse would work smoothly sometimes but wouldn't be responsive at all other times. same with the keyboard, it took like 6 seconds to register a keypress and sometimes it would act like i held down the key i ended up installing ubuntu GNOME and i still get the problem, though only at the login screen. anyone know why this is happening?

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52532155]Is there like, a really simple way of encrypting USBs that'll work easily across multiple OSes?[/QUOTE] Veracrypt (or whatever is good these days) containers I guess with the portable binaries required next to the container

[QUOTE=elitehakor;52532706]i was trying to install fedora on my desktop but during the installation i was experiencing really, really bad mouse and keyboard lag. like the mouse would work smoothly sometimes but wouldn't be responsive at all other times. same with the keyboard, it took like 6 seconds to register a keypress and sometimes it would acts like i held down the key i ended up installing ubuntu GNOME and i still get the problem, though only at the login screen. anyone know why this is happening?[/QUOTE] I had some lag, fixed after I updated everything. Specifically graphics drivers. I'd suggest Fedora over ubuntu if you are going Gnome anyway.

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;52529435]From what I can tell, you would be correct[/QUOTE] I found that I can ask my ISP to open ports 80, 443 and another one. Woop. Is there a way to verify that it is open? Do I have to restart my router?

[QUOTE=Number-41;52535343]I found that I can ask my ISP to open ports 80, 443 and another one. Woop. Is there a way to verify that it is open? Do I have to restart my router?[/QUOTE] [url]http://canyouseeme.org[/url] Or try access it on your mobile data

Still can't access my Apache server, nmap returns this: [CODE]nmap -p 80 -Pn 91.178.116.124 Starting Nmap 7.01 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2017-08-04 10:23 CEST Nmap scan report for 124.116-178-91.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be (91.178.116.124) Host is up (0.0032s latency). PORT STATE SERVICE 80/tcp filtered http Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.06 seconds[/CODE] I'm trying to access it through my Uni computer (mobile doesn't work either).

My new laptop will be arriving today. Unfortunately, all the websites I checked never offered the exact make of network card, and only offered the network standard that it ran on (IEEE 802.11ac) I'll be checking it and seeing how it takes to Arch.

What's a simple dm+de combo for remoting into with cygwin? I was using LXDM+LXDE but LXDE is being deprecated

[QUOTE=aurum481;52538817]What's a simple dm+de combo for remoting into with cygwin? I was using LXDM+LXDE but LXDE is being deprecated[/QUOTE] LXQT? It is the successor to LXDE, but based on QT instead of GTK

[QUOTE=Number-41;52538320]Still can't access my Apache server, nmap returns this: [CODE]nmap -p 80 -Pn 91.178.116.124 Starting Nmap 7.01 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2017-08-04 10:23 CEST Nmap scan report for 124.116-178-91.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be (91.178.116.124) Host is up (0.0032s latency). PORT STATE SERVICE 80/tcp filtered http Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.06 seconds[/CODE] I'm trying to access it through my Uni computer (mobile doesn't work either).[/QUOTE] Filtered means that the port is likely blocked by a firewall.

Generally I leave SSH running on port 22 because it's one less config field to enter in, this has been going fine (server up for 66 days - 634K of btmp, another up for 252 days - 3.4M of btmp, whatever) then I was trying to figure out why this piece of shit VPS crashed and noticed there was a 963M btmp log after not even 6 months. What the actual fuck. Still don't know why it crashed.