Kali on Pop!OS

So I started my Linux journey after installing TailsOS on a live USB. I liked it a lot. So I downloaded Kali Linux as a Virtual Machine on my Windows PC. I actually liked it since I found it challenging. But I think I would rather start my journey from Pop!OS.

Given that Pop!OS and Kali are both Debian-based, can all the programs that run on Kali run on Pop!OS?

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DE Showcase: a set of noscripts to preview most Linux Desktop environments

This is a project I recently started to work on.

This is basically a Vagrant VM and a set of python noscripts that set up most DEs/WMs and then take a screenshot once started.

If you've ever created a VM to check out how the new KDE version looks like, this might be the project for you!

https://github.com/cafehaine/de\_showcase

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How To Install GNOME 40 in Manjaro (and possibly Arch)

Let me start this off by saying I've never written a guide like this, but I'll try my best to make it easy to follow.

My reason for writing this guide is to help people like me who wanted to try out GNOME 40 but didn't feel like switching to a development build of GNOME OS or Fedora. I run Manjaro and wanted to try get it to work on there. I messed around with the Buildstream package, but never having heard of Buildstream in the first place I couldn't really make heads or tails of it. I couldn't figure out how to build the packages from source either, as there were missing dependencies I couldn't solve.

Back-up any important data. This might break your install or otherwise break your system. I tried this on a clean install of Manjaro. I downloaded the GNOME version, but I suppose that isn't necessary (in fact - it might be easier with other DE's but I don't really touch those so I wouldn't know).

Don't expect this to work flawlessly out of the box. The alpha currently released is heavily in-development and not yet ready for production use. It might crash, be unstable, or behave unexpectedly in other ways.

If you wish to proceed, here are my step-by-step instructions. A kind fellow by the name of Marcio uploaded a packager to the Arch User Repository called gnome-shell-40alfa. This caught my eye, and I set to work trying to install it. This is how I have managed to do it.

1. Update your system. Open a terminal and run sudo pacman -Syyu. Enter your password and let it run, you probably know the drill.
2. Install yay, which we will use to install the GNOME AUR package from a terminal. You can use Pamac and search for yay (it's in the official Manjaro repositories).
3. Next, before we proceed, we will have to remove the current gnome-shell, as well as a bunch of dependencies. To do this, press control + alt + F3. A black screen with a text prompt will ask you to log in. Log in using your account, then enter sudo pacman -Rcns gnome-shell manjaro-gnome-assets. It will show you what packages are going to be removed, confirm by pressing Y.
4. Once that's finished, we can start installing GNOME 40. Enter yay -S gnome-shell-40alfa. It will ask you whether you want to remove some dependencies, I wasn't sure so I chose not to by pressing N.
5. Now, it will start downloading and building a bunch of packages. It will ask you multiple times whether you want to keep or remove specific conflicting packages. I chose to keep the packages ending in -git, as they appear to be the newer versions that you want to install. The first conflict I got was jack and jack2. I chose to keep jack2 by pressing Y. Then I proceeded the installation by pressing Y again. After that, we need to replace gsettings-desktop-schemas with gsettings-desktop-schemas-git. Press Y to confirm, then proceed with the installation by pressing Y again. Follow these steps for glibweather by pressing Y again, twice.
6. Now, after the new version of Mutter has been built, press Y to remove the old Mutter install when prompted to do so, then press Y again to proceed with the installation.
7. After this, you should be finished. Type reboot to, unsurprisingly, reboot your machine. There currently is no login manager installed, so you will be dropped in a terminal. Log in, then enter gnome-shell --wayland and you should be dropped into the alpha release of GNOME. Congratulations :)

If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to let me know.

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Windows has finally done it!!! I'm switching.

I swear I'm done I want to join you guys. So I'm wanting to switch from windows and I was planning on using something like KVM to play games that dont run well on linux. I have a few questions before I switch though.

1.what version of linux should I get? Pop,Ubuntu,Arch ( I'm kinda personally leaning towards the Arch side.)

2.What are the first things I should do when i first run the os? Any commands or anything?

3 would running windows in kvm affect vr performance too much I have a WMR Headset? Should I just dual boot?

4. Are there anythings that you miss about windows or think that most users or I will miss?

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Linux is dogshit

Every Linux vegan is telling how much easier it is to use Linux instead of Windows so after installing Ubuntu to my unused laptop I opened firefox and youtube and it was giving me some kind of Mime error and i couldn't play a video. After 1 hour of searching for solution I had to install some restricted extras package....
Imagine if you are a complete noob at it how are you supposed to watch youtube videos???


After that i decided to install android emulator to play some games and guess what? Unlike Windows you can't just install Nox or Bluestack. I had to install something called Anbox and as you guessed it's not as simple as install and run. I had to run like 10 cmd commands one after another and after that it didn't work. I know you will say that i fucked up step 7 or some shit but why is it so tedious??


TLDR: Everything in Linux is time waster and a chore compared to Windows

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Open source platformer game Super Bombinhas released!

Hi all! Version 1.0 of my platformer open source game is here!

Download on itch.io

Repository

Currently, there is a package only for Debian-based Linux, but it should be possible to run in many other distributions by downloading the repo and following the installation guide. I intend to port it to more distributions in the future with an AppImage... Does anyone know a good guide on how to create an AppImage for a Ruby application?

Thanks and have fun!

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Cloud storage?

Long story short, I am sick of using OneDrive cuz of all the security issues. If anyone could recommend a cloud storage that is super secure I would be grateful. (Also, I've done a research on Nextcloud but I wasn't really comfortable setting it up cuz of all the server stuff)

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python-sdbus - my new D-Bus library for Python

Features:

Type hints. (`mypy --strict` compatible)
Asyncio or blocking calls.
Based on fast sd-bus from systemd.
Unified client/server interface classes. Write interface class once.
D-Bus methods can have keyword and optional arguments.
Interface repository. Only has Notifications and D-Bus daemon at the moment but will be expanded to contain most common interfaces. (systemd, NetworkManager, ...)

Github repo

It is available on AUR (as -git version) or PyPI (can be installed with pip install sdbus).


Documentation is available here: https://python-sdbus.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

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i made a custom calculator for the terminal to help with my gb emulator
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Nntpit - minimalist reddit2nntp gateway
https://github.com/taviso/nntpit

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I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/02/Anti-Wayland-horseshit.html

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I wrote a noscript to browse the searx search engine from your desktop

Works with both rofi and dmenu

Github repo
More info on youtube

(Also works with other web browsers, not just surf)

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https://reddit.com/link/lb11ya/video/3wefvwd3m3f61/player

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I made a Python noscript which sets the APOD as the wallpaper/background image

Hello hello :D

I made a little and simple Python noscript to set the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) as my wallpaper, since last year I used European Space Agency calendar as wallpapers and I had nothing for this year.

There's a systemd service file to run the noscript after the system boots, explaining on the README how to do it.

I did it for myself mainly, and I hope someone else finds it useful.

Here's the link to the Github repo. Feedback of any kind is more than welcome :D

Thanks :D

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Hard coded user/root user


Is there way in redhat Linux, where you prevent even root to create new user accounts? Require this for a reason: basically only two users hard fixed: admin and root. Would need to prohibit creation of any other users even by root.

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The GNU C Library version 2.33 is now available with advanced hardware capabilities feature
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-February/122207.html

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Announcing Krita Art Contest - Four Seasons of Leon and Kiki
https://krita.org/en/four_seaons_of_leon_and_kiki/

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I've just had one of my most chilling experiences of being treated like a second class citizen

I'm having a hard time getting work at the moment. I'm 23 years old knows a decent bit of Linux and Infrastructure.

I never completed my comp sci degree. So I figured I'd go back and get my degree since it seems jobs are so infatuated about having that degree. I've recently started a online-remote school considering we're all still home-bound. I just finished my first course and I'm ready to take my exam.

Come to find out my operating system is 'not supported'. That's fine I hear that often.. I join the school's discord and ask if not supported means "no supported given" or "no you cannot take this test". Boy did I get flamed for being unhappy I don't want a specific machine just to take my school exams. It turns to take these the exam protector software suites must put some ring 0 rootkit in the OS to ensure you're not cheating. I told them "well thanks I should be okay on my /r/vfio vm". I got flamed x5. I should've just left it at that and walked away but it's quite sad people still can't understand the appeal of wanting to use Linux on the desktop. 75% of my classes are linux based in the first place...

Sorry if this is too /r/linuxcirclejerk but I just wanted to share my thoughts, and hear if people had similar experiences.

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Recovering Files in Linux

Hello,

I am a student and I have made the cardinal sin of rm ing a file without sudo access in my organization. The file contained important code which I have being working on for a great length. I used vim to edit this file earlier. I thought u linux users might able to offer some guidance. How can I recover that file?

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duplicity restore Errno 13 Permission denied

I'm trying to restore files when I'm getting this error, has anyone had this issue before?

I own the directory where I'm trying to restore files, so that shouldn't be a problem

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duplicity --file-to-restore nginx file:///nfs/dock/etc .
Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
Last full backup date: Fri Jan 1 21:11:06 2021
GnuPG passphrase:
Error '('Error creating directory ./conf.d', 7)' processing conf.d
Skipping conf.d/status.conf because of previous error
Error '('Error creating directory ./default.d', 7)' processing default.d
Error 'Errno 13 Permission denied: b'./fastcgi.conf'' processing fastcgi.conf
Error 'Errno 13 Permission denied: b'./fastcgi.conf.default'' processing fastcgi.conf.default
Error 'Errno 13 Permission denied: b'./fastcgiparams'' processing fastcgiparams
Error 'Errno 13 Permission denied: b'./fastcgiparams.default'' processing fastcgiparams.default
Error 'Errno 13 Permission denied: b'./koi-utf'' processing koi-utf
Error 'Errno 13 Permission denied: b'./koi-win'' processing koi-win
Error 'Errno 13 Permission denied: b'./mime.types'' processing mime.types
Error 'Errno 13 Permission denied: b'./mime.types.default'' processing mime.types.default
Error 'Errno 13 Permission denied: b'./nginx.conf'' processing nginx.conf
Error 'Errno 13 Permission denied: b'./nginx.conf.default'' processing nginx.conf.default
Error 'Errno 13 Permission denied: b'./nginx.conf.rpmnew'' processing nginx.conf.rpmnew
Error 'Errno 13 Permission denied: b'./nginx.conf20200926'' processing nginx.conf20200926
Error 'Errno 13 Permission denied: b'./scgiparams'' processing scgiparams
Error 'Errno 13 Permission denied: b'./scgiparams.default'' processing scgiparams.default
Error 'Errno 13 Permission denied: b'./uwsgiparams'' processing uwsgiparams
Error 'Errno 13 Permission denied: b'./uwsgiparams.default'' processing uwsgiparams.default
Error 'Errno 13 Permission denied: b'./win-utf'' processing win-utf
Error 'Errno 1 Operation not permitted: b'.'' processing .

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Once again proof that linux will never be main stream, no matter how much you want it to be.

Wipe out windows 10, Try to install latest version of Mint.
All goes well, except for WiFi card. (no Ethernet)

Go to Windows PC to get drivers, no bueno.

Get annoyed, get Ubuntu, same thing.

Network drivers are kinda important. They let you fix all problems, kinda hard without them.

Hence Linux will never be main stream if you cant connect to the net to fix install problems.

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Just to share a little personal history

I was poor, my mon was a clean lady in a hospital, one day in 2008 (i had 15 years at the time) i gained a schoolarship in a techinical IT course, i was always curious about stuff, i read about windows thin clients and terminal services servers and tried to experiment with them with virtual box in the school lab, it was impossible the dealing with required licenses and microsoft DRM restricted my learning, than i read about something called linux.... a free ("not free like in free ber, but free like in freedon of speech") operational system? sounded interesting, but i was still a total newbie at IT, then i read about a "Linux for dummies" book in my country, it was "Linux servers, a practical guide" from Eduardo Morimoto, it was expensive for me, we were really poor.... i talked to my mother how i liked it, then my mother cuted her hair and sold it to buy the book for me....... holy shit, i dived in it head straight and never came to the surface again...

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After i learned the fundamentals with the book i could experiment till my hearts content, i was welcomed by helpful community of people more experienced than me, everything i had doubts someone already answered it some forum, or writed an extensive article about it, step by step, in two stances trhough the years i had asked an advanced question in forum expecting for another helpful peer to answer and how shocked i was when the fu**** lead of the project answered my full details.....

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by these factors my learning process was simply unrestricted, anything i needed to know i just needed to search or ask, i became a senior sysadmin and some collegues asked me "how could learn linux? linux is so difficult"

what? proprietary tools that are difficult, everything is gate keeped, or pay gated

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well, today im a senior linux system administrator and network infraestructure analyst, i could pay my mon college and now she is an business administrator, it was everything because of linux (and of course my mother), not because of an sole entity, but by the whole that linux is, every developer who contributed code, every writer who keeps publishing about linux, every peer who so helpfully answered any question, even the peers who engaged with me in heated debates about different perspectives

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if you are reading this thinking if you will try linux or not, come already, you are losing the party

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