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No.30180
after saw the screenshot thread, and saw archlinux i knew i wanted it. Now 4 days later after alot of research and several attempts at trying to install it on an intel laptop i had lying around i have it. Since im relativly new to linux, i have used ubuntu and debian before, i was wondering if /cyber could recomemend any software for me to download or play with. newayz thnx in advance.
No.30182
>>30180
Dat wallpaper
Gibe pls
No.30183
>>30180
start tiling
start ricing
stop using guis
start being minimal
No.30190
>>30180
> recomemend any software
uh, so what do you want to *do* with your computer? I could recommend octave, but unless you're into numerical computing and are looking for a free alternative to matlab I doubt that's going to make you very happy…
Anyway, become proficient with the shell and coreutils. If shit hits the fan, if anything works, that will be it. Who knows, you might even grow to like it.
No.30202
>>30183
got it researching tiling now. just got awesome and starting to work with that a little thnx for the input gnna start looking up ricing next
No.30223
>>30202
awesome wm is a good intro to tiling wms, but when you are comfortable with keyboard navigation try moving to i3, it's more "manual" in a sense but have more freedom.
No.30224
>>30223
i3, i3bar and dmenu for the minimalism factor, although from what I can recall installing i3, i3bar comes with it.
No.30257
>>30180
xmobar is bretty nice.
I prefer bspwm to i3, but opinions.
mpd, and ncmpcpp for music
terminology for terminal emulator,
zshell and oh-my-zsh for rice
I prefer my applications to all be in-terminal, so Toxic for TOX, rtorrent for bittorrent, weechat for irc, and links for web browseing.
Depending on your needs you might want some plugins for vim or emacs, whatever you prefer.
But at this point we're flying in the face of minimalizm.
No.30261
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>>30257
>weechat
>not irssi
No.30266
>>30223
>>30224
>>30257
thnx everyone for the input and yeah i love the minimalist look and the text based everything. im working on setting it up right now, but considering how long it took me to get it installed it might take a while to set up i have to learn a bit of LUA for configuring the awesome.conf and maybe eventueally switch over to i3 also do yall know of any hyper terminal like programs to talk to cisco routers and switches throufgh a rs232 connect
No.30267
also does anyone know how to disable the mousepad on a laptop in awesome WM? its really annoying when trying to type.
No.30273
>>30266
Before I forget, https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/List_of_recommended_GNU/Linux_software can be a very good resource. It's compiled by halfchan /g/ and they also have some good input on ricing out your computer too.
No.30278
>>30266
> talk to cisco routers and switches throufgh a rs232 connect
You should see the rs232 listed in /dev/ as a "tty".
Everything in linux is a file, so you can just read from it.
# Dump somefile
cat [somefile]
# Write to somefile
echo "output" > [somefile]
# The above clobers the file.
So, if you "cd /dev" you should be able to "ls -l" and see the serial devices, typically: "/dev/ttyS0" and/or "/dev/ttyS1".
So you can just read / write from these files:
echo "something" > /dev/ttyS0
cat /dev/ttyS0
Try opening a separate terminal for the "cat" command, then you can monitor the output while you "echo" from another terminal.
If you get gibberish you might need to set the speed, so you can use "stty" for that.
stty -speed 19200 < /dev/ttyS1
stty -speed 19200 -f /dev/ttyS1
Change the speed and device name to suit.
If your device has an interactive mode you might be able to join the commands via "&" and do both reading and writing over terminal.
When in doubt, RTFM:
man stty
No.30285
>>30278
In other words, the linux terminal is a hyper "hyper-terminal".
No.30295
>he fell for the Arch meme
>he didn't install Slackware
Shitposting aside, you'll want a tiling wm, a bitmap font, rxvt-unicode for terminal emulator, mpd+ncmpcpp for music (though I use mocp because the db for mpd won't fucking read the tags for the majority of my music no matter what I do), mpv for video, irssi for IRC, tmux for tiling terminals, mutt/alpine for email (hope you don't get HTML emails), and a reason for not using Slackware.
No.30316
>>30257
how in the hell do you use weechat, or any irc for that matter im soz for being such a newb. i tried looking it up but theres really not much out there on it
No.30317
>>30316
1. Install hexchat.
2. Launch hexchat.
3. Enter your nicknames.
4. You are asked a network, choose freenode.
5. You are asked a channel, choose #Beginner.
6. ??? Type 'Hello!'
7. PROFIT
Of course you can go to any channel on any network (#8chan on Rizon for übershitposting).
http://www.ircbeginner.com/ircinfo/ircc-commands.html for help about commands.
No.30322
No.30325
>>30316
If you're having issues working out weechat, it'll be fun when arch breaks for the first time.
No.30336
>New to Guhnoo/Loonix
>Uses Arch
Dude, you're a fucking tard, schway. I'll answer anyways though;
Spectrwm or a borderless theme for XFCE
Atom text editor.
Geany IDE, if you're into that kinda thing.
Custom firefox userchrome.
Stylish for firefox. (which has the ability to edit your userchrome)
Whisker menu for XFCE.
Remove the dock panel on the bottom.
Any dark GTK theme.
Ardour, Hydrogen, or LMMS if you into music.
Tesseract.gg, Warsow, and Chocolate Doom for gaymen.
If you end up liking Arch, I'd reccomend you try Parabola to fully escape the corpcuckery.
No.30452
>>30336
so far im loving it, i enjoy learning new things. i cant wait till i finally get it all setup and show it off to yall.
No.31202
>>30261
>irssi
Enjoy your unjustified names and weird ass unreadable text.
No.31704
Dear /cyber/,
Is there any possible way to install arch-linux from usb? I've tried unetbootin and some other ways and none were successful.
Sincerely,
succ
No.31707
No.31708
>>31704
"It did not work" is not enough information to tell you *why* it did not work and what you need to change in order to make it work.
Yes, it should be possible, although I haven't personally done so for years, as I find netbooting when installing easier.
No.31717
>installing Arch
>Asking for programs
Is this satire? Use Netrunner instead m8
No.31723
>>30316
/connect <ircserver>
ex /connect Rizon
or /connect irc://irc.rizon.net
then /nick <yournick>
ex /nick f4gg0t
register your nick if you want
then /join #channel
ex /join #8chan
You might want to look at the ways to split-window, easy mode is
/splith
/window +1
/window -1
this way to can join different channels, you can also use tabs, no-width windows and more.
>>31704
I installed from usb using unetbootin, you'll have to be more specific.
No.31776
No.31777
>>31776
shit, alright
thanks chummer
No.31892
No.31909
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ubuntu can look /cyber/ too.
running it on a $200 chromebook
No.31912
>>31909
>implying any OS can't look /cyber/
It's being /cyber/ that counts, corpcuck.
No.31913
>>31912
lrn2read shazbot, I didn't say any OS can't look cyber
No.31929
>>31908
That caught my eye, it looks pretty schway. Then I noticed you use sublime. Can you throw me a good tutorial my way? Just started my course as a java backend dev, and we're being encouraged to use it. Sadly, the tutorial our teacher has used for the last two years has been paywall'd…
No.31932
>>31908
>>31909
http://terminal.sexy
>>31929
If you mean the text editor, why aren't you using eclipse like everyone else?
No.31945
>>31932
Yes, I mean that. Eclipse is something we will be using, but I see obvious benefits to knowing a tool like this too.
No.31970
>>31909
hey man that looks schweay! kudos~!!
No.31971
>>31929
srry bud i dont have anytutorials im really new to it also but im just teaching myself getting all the info from the net whenever i need it.
No.32755
>>30278
yeah, i ended up just using minicom. lol
No.32756
>>30257
hey man ive been looking at as bunch of different how tos and ive used the arch wiki forum and and even vidoeos but i just cant seem to get ncmcpcpp to work its driving me nuts do you have any advice
No.32762
All I want is a distro that looks exactly like windows 10 with no hassle of ricing it, is this too much to ask Linux?
No.32770
No.32773
>>32762
W-wait, you like the look of W10?
I guess Ubuntu is actually perfect for somebody
>>32756
You can't get ncmpcpp to work at all with mpd?
No.32796
>>32773
ya m8 idk what im doing wrong im totes lost
No.32803
>>30224
use j4-dmenu-desktop instead of dmenu, its faster and uses desktop files
No.32810
>>32773
Yeah I like its look. I'm not a fan of gradients and colour vectors, minimalism is key with me.
No.32811
No.32814
>>32811
Yeah. I read an interesting study on why people actually prefer minimalist websites and it's all to do with people wanting less visual information.
Study:
>http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/38315.pdf
No.32815
No.37337
>Get Raspberry Pi 2b
>Install Arch usin NOOBS
>Outdated, only compatible with model 1
>Updating takes hours of overly complicated bullshit
Why do people praise this thing again?
No.37340
>>37337
The raspi or arch?
No.37345
Try a tiling window manager. i3 and awesome are good choices. StumpWM is great if you're a Lisp guy and don't mind putting in a lot of work to customize it because the defaults suck.
Whatever you pick, you could probably spend a lot of time here because they tend to be highly customizable.
Definitely check out colour schemes and get some fonts you like going.
Try some CLI alternatives for some applications. For example, I was very impressed with the file browser called ranger.
No.37351
>>37340
The arch version itself was outdated in noobs, all other OS's work as far as I know but Arch is the only one that hasn't been updated for whatever reason.
https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/2ytvhg/how_to_manually_updating_arch_linux_on_noobs/
That's what you have to do to update it but it's so god damn frustrating I don't even want to deal with it anymore.
No.37354
>>37345
following up, if you can grok C then dwm is a very good window manager that supports tagging and is only 2000 single lines of code.
No.37355
>>30336
>>New to Guhnoo/Loonix
>>Uses Arch
Arch was my first ever distro. It's completely possible for a beginner to use Arch as long as they can read. Oh, and:
>Geany
>Atom
>not Emacs
:^)
No.37365
>>37355
It's not a bad distro for beginners, it's just a bad distro.
No.37376
>>30190
>become proficient with the shell and coreutils
This. So much this.
No.37377
>>37376
Also, I found this while scrolling through my bookmarks.
http://pastebin.com/gitkAT2y
No.37384
>>37351
Arch doesn't officially support ARM.
No.38049
No.38127
Arch is only useful if you want to show off to anonymous users on the internet.
No.38246
which is better, Arch or Kali?
No.38298
>>38246
totally different things