Weekend Fluff / Linux in the Wild Thread - January 10, 2020

Welcome to the weekend! This stickied thread is for you to post pictures of your ubuntu 2006 install disk, slackware floppies, on-topic memes or more.

When it's not the weekend, be sure to check out r/WildLinuxAppears or r/linuxmemes!

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LibreOffice QA/Dev Report: December 2019
https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2020/01/10/qa-dev-report-december-2019/

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Absence of GUI in the lock screen. Lock screen loads tty1 instead

My distro suddenly decided to not load the primitive lock screen and is showing something tty1 with no GUI. I can login just fine but how do I get my old login screen back ???

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OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 beta -distro with LLVM/Clang, LTO and PGO released. Clang kernel ready for tesing, zypper as alternative backend and more
https://www.openmandriva.org/en/news/article/openmandriva-lx-4-1-beta-available-for-testing

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Anyone Know What I am Doing Wrong?

pi@raspberrypi:\~ $ sudo curl [http://easyinstall.citadel.org/install](http://easyinstall.citadel.org/install) | bash

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current

Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:04 --:--:-- 0

mkdir: cannot create directory '/usr/local/ctdltest.1248': Permission denied

Easy Install is unable to create subdirectories in /usr/local.

Did you forget to run the install command as the root user?

Please become root (with a command like "su" or "sudo -s") and try again.

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Yesterday I Learned: You can remove sudo

I was at work with some down time and remembered seeing a meme that said "sudo apt install sudo". I ran the command and was told, "sudo is already the newest version". It was then it dawned on me that sudo was an installed package... and could therefore be uninstalled.

I booted up a VM running Ubuntu Server 18 for safety, became root, and ran "apt remove sudo". Naturally it threw an error because i had no root password set. I quickly set a password and re-ran the command, and sudo actually uninstalled! You can still become root, you just have to use su. If you run a command with sudo again, it says the sudo command cant be found, and offers the command to install the package.

My curiousity grew deeper as i wondered 'can i remove the root user?' Running 'userdel root' told me the user was being used, so i naively exited root and tried again with identical results. I then realized root is running process #1, so its always in use.

I just wanted to share my little adventure yesterday. It was interesting to what happened.

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HELLO linuuuuuux

Using linux and open source full time starting from today, i am a new member to the community, i want to work on fundamental approach to improve the internet, love the qubes os, want the internet not to lose it powers to some big companies and want internet to be pure, free, truthful and best always.

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Fediverse in 2019 (In 2019 the reachable Fediverse grew from 3.986 instances to 5.027)
https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-in-2019

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Delta airlines personal media runs Linux btw
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Linux on my 32GB windows tablet is surprisingly good
https://www.marcoieni.com/2020/01/linux-on-my-32gb-windows-tablet-is-surprisingly-good/

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Which Underrated Linux distro do you run and what made you do so?

Just wanted to check what (underrated) linux distro do my fellow linux people run and why?

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Just released my first game on the Linux platform. If you are looking for an exciting sci-fi shoot 'em up, take a look.
https://onebitstudio.itch.io/exile-squadron

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What Linux distro for my Mac?

Hey!

I was looking to try Linux on my old Mac (2009 MBP with a Core 2 Duo and 4G of ram). I was looking into Elementary OS, but wasn’t sure. I’m looking for it to be light for just web browsing, and because the battery is fading. But, I also want the interface to look clean. Is Elementary my best bet?

Thanks

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Mac/Linux/BSD port of id Software’s 1993 Doom map editor for NeXTSTEP
http://twilightedge.com/mac/redoomed/

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Practical Privacy — Data Privacy Ideas for 2020
https://medium.com/@kellyrush/practical-privacy-data-privacy-ideas-for-2020-184863bacedd

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Arch Linux On Line Installer

Calam-Arch-Installer Now install arch easily with on line gui installler, choices packs list DE, util, and browsers before proceed installed supported install: enabled aur+pamac, gui partitioning, dual boot, mbr-efi and encrypted my project here:[Arch-installer](https://sourceforge.net/projects/blue-arch-installer/)

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My introduction to my new operating system DahliaOS
https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/enfbgg/introduction_to_my_new_operatingsystem_dahliaos/

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Currently trying out Runit

And I'm so far loving it. It's very snappy, quick to add new services to, and starts services as soon as they are added while the system is live. So so smooth. Also, the service file creation is very easy.

I'm currently building a very lightweight Artix build and using Runit as my init, Connman as my network manager (took a bit of fiddling around and whatnot to get my wireless working properly), neovim as my editor, and Bspwm for my window manager. My system is still extremely barebones but going through the customizations and whatnot is so fun.

Anyone else try out Runit or Bspwm here?

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Plasma running on WSL 1
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[Question] Linux usability tricks

Hi there cloud of wisdom!

first of all I would like to remark that although not completely new to Linux, it is not my daily operating system, so this is a beginner question.

I am working towards the Red Hat certification and I feel like losing my eyesight working with the console and the amount of wrapped and unstructured text on it. I have managed to change the prompt, but I feel it is not enough for me.

I was wondering, what are you guys doing to increase the shell usability, and Linux in general? What are your tricks?

I was thinking on something that makes information in the shell easier to digest, like:

* Permissions clearly separated lrwxrwxrwx. -> l rwx rwx rwx.
* Thousands separator on figures 230296 -> 230,296
* Some automatic coloring
* Clearly identify when text is wrapped

These are just examples, but I am sure there are many others.

Does exist something like this? What are your veteran tricks for usability?

NOTE: I am using RHEL and Bash shell
NOTE2: Examples of what I mean:

https://i.imgur.com/8TriUMi.png


https://i.imgur.com/YzQMYqj.png

Thanks in advance!

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Looking for help setting up Qemu VM (running windows) with a Windows host.

Hello! I've been playing with VMs for about 8 years now and really stuck to just VMware. However, my issue is that certain games auto boot me because their anti-cheat detects a VM.

I have read that Qemu successfully runs the games I want AND completely outshines VMware. I've been reading guides and watching videos, but I am still stuck. I am not too familiar with command lines and it seems Qemu appeals to the Linux crowd.

I am more than willing to pay for someone's time to show me the simple ropes of Qemu. Reply here or send me a message and I will PM you my Discord.

Thanks!

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