(Part 3) Top products from r/linuxmasterrace

man pages really are good enough once you got the basics down. They were 20 years ago, and I don’t think the quality has decreased. If you want truly great man pages, FreeBSD is the place to go.

To get the basics down, start with something like this

Once you understand that, follow up with something like this

Young people today.. they pick Arch to “learn something” (or just to be cool - I can’t decide), and when the learning part starts, they want the answers served without any effort.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to learn, just don’t expect to be finished in 4 hours.

I’ve spent 20 years as a Unix system administrator and/or developed systems running on Unix. Before I had kids I spent a few years working on Stampede Linux. My first Linux distribution was “Yggdrasil Plug&Play Linux fall ‘93”. I still learn new stuff frequently, and it usually starts with something I find on the internet, which then get tried on my own machine, and finally i use man pages for troubleshooting/fine tuning.

If that fails, I do what everybody else does, i ask google, and if I still can’t solve the issue, I will ask somewhere. Last issue I had was Debian <-> FreeBSD NFSv4 mounts with Kerberos that would freeze frequently. I spent a couple of weeks debugging that before asking, and learned a great deal in the process. After google started returning only purple links, I finally asked on a couple of forums.

I used Ubuntu years ago but what exactly makes it restrictive? You can change the whole desktop environment with simple sudo apt get and config file adjustment. Not to mention variois tools for gnome to do stuff.

I’d definitely start with using Ubuntu variant or Debian and learn some bash and then proceed somewhere. Hacking is pretty retarded term IMO but OP will figure it out eventually.

There is this book for people like this, that is newbies who found the term hacking and are interested. It uses Kali linux but just sandbox it and you’re good to go. At least back in the day wit back track os the tools were actually pretty annoying to find so it’s better to just install kali somewhere

If you have to use Windows, and many of us do, do yourself a favor and learn some PowerShell. "ls" is a supported alias. In fact, a lot of Unix style commands are. It even uses the pipeline "|" only instead of piping text you are passing .Net objects.

> ps notepad | kill

You don't have to parse out the process id. It derives that from the object.

Do yourself a further favor and install Git. Then you can include all the tools under its usr/bin directory in your path and have such tools as grep, du, find, ssh, scp, etc. all complied for Windows.

The look on a Windows sysadmin's face when you ssh to a remote server from a pwsh command line makes it all worthwhile.

Edit: I mean, I even run vim with a custom vimrc file in a pwsh console on Windows 10 with my keyboard remapped to Dvorack. And GVim is my default tool for .txt files. I get a lot of weird looks from the Windows sysadmins.

Edit #2: If you want some really squirrely but very effective Win cmd style commands, check out the Red Team Field Manual. Some good shit in here for Linux too.

Built in UPS and a little more power efficient. A Laptop should be quieter. I saw laptop so went with that.

A Desktop would be more cost efficient, particularly if you build from parts yourself. Does not really change the idea of an Nvidia Graphics, and a Core i5/7 or comparable AMD CPU. Nividia has open source Nouvea drivers. Most everything else hardware wise should be supported by the default kernel drivers. (At least internally. Printers and scanners and such are a crapshoot.)

If you want a Hard drive for occasional use, get an external that connects esata. Add an esata bracket and you will be able to boot for the drive, but can disconnect it completely when not in use.

I use Fedora, and kmod to keep the Nvidia binary module compiled for my running kernel. Steam works fine for me. About the only non-steam game I play is Wesnoth, so not an issue to get anything else working in Linux.

The "hard" way to ensure (1) is never accessed by (2) or (3) would be something like this. Got one of those in my tower, it's hot-swappable if correctly un-/mounted (I only use it to quickly transfer large amounts of data).

edit: Product was first hit on search for "sata hdd swap 5.25", no advertising intended ;)

The Happy Hacking Keyboard (Lite2 here) has the ctrl key to the left and a meta key instead of a Windows key.

Sighhhh you bait worked. Here goes!

vim a text editor, which is only a part of a development environment. You need other programs to go along with it, like a file manager, a terminal, a compiler and a debugger. Think of it like tools in a toolbox -- each performs its own task and is separate from the others. Now, of course, as you say, doing things this way is stupid when you can just get an IDE! Just like carrying around a toolbox is stupid when you can get the Wegner 16999 87-tool swiss army knife. It has a saw, a hatchet, a screwdriver, a hammer and a spot welder all integrated into it for ease of access! Of course, if you don't like the shape of the saw, there's no way to replace it, but who would ever need that amirite? It's a bit cumbersome to handle, but the way it's all integrated together increases your productivity! Not to mention the obvious ergonomic benefits!

Minimalism is not about taking away key features. It's about distributing the workload between separate interchangeable and configurable parts that work together to make a greater whole. If you're installing a file manager into vim as a plugin, you're already missing the point!

And you need to enable the system clipboard in vim during compile-time, or get the vim-huge (iirc) package from your package manager. The command to copy is "+y , cut is "+d and paste is "+p

If OP is still looking: I've had these for a while, they're alright. If you're going for a camera mic I'm guessing you don't want the highest quality audio.

Question: There are books about JSON. JSON is an open standard. Does this count as books for free software?

P.S. These books are ridiculous.

I personally bought it off Amazon. This is the link for both books. I only picked up the Study Guide for now.

I used to print them on CD sticky labels and put them on the CD.

[relevant book] (https://www.amazon.com/Installing-Linux-Dead-Badger-Snyder/dp/1894953479)

This book will answer a lot of your questions.

I would spend and extra $10 - $15 n this

Intel nic

I was watching a documentary on pinball when one of the guys they were interviewing said that video games never clicked for him because they had an ending. And that was kind of an epiphany for me. I made the logical leap to FOSS gaming and I realized that a FOSS game has to be made from pure mechanics and can have no actual ending.

Take some golden-age arcade game like Robotron 2084. To this day, I can still spend hours playing this game. Yes, an individual session may only last ten minutes at most. But you can't "win" the game. You can only do a little bit better than you did the last time. This game is infinitely replayable. The same goes for most early 80's arcade games. You can see a similar philosophy in the games of Kenta Cho. This ability to go back to a game and still find challenge is the reason why there's a roguelike renaissance going on in the industry right now.

And I haven't even started on mods. The one thing that keeps on Windows isn't commercial games. It's Brutal Doom. The minute I figure out how to run Brutal Doom on Linux is the minute I check out of Windows completely. Seriously, all I need is Brutal Doom and Oblige and I'm set. I've also spent a considerable amount of time playing Arcane Dimensions with the Darkplaces source port of Quake 1.

What I'm getting at here is that single player games can have as much, if not more, longevity as multiplayer games provided that they are:

1. Infinite loops
   
2. comprised of procedurally generated content
   
3. Have a means for players to create content.
   
   or all of the above.
   
   You are looking at games in the same way that you look at movies or books. You aren't looking at games as games. Think about all the paper we waste making crossword and sudoku puzzles. That's what a game is. It's a series of restrictions that challenges the player. A good game, like a Rubik's cube, is timeless and can be altered to provide additional challenge. A bad game, like any choose your own adventure book, is extremely finite, easy to reproduce and quickly forgotten.

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I've been meaning to get around to it eventually, I just wrote from the stories I've heard about the game.

The simulation in that game is ridiculously detailed, and since it's single-threaded, it brings basically every CPU on Earth to its knees once your fortress starts to grow.

The stories that game generates are insane. The best one I've heard was a bunny that fell down a shaft to Hell and then proceeded to survive and kill multiple demons until the dwarves could mount a rescue.

Just looking on TVTropes I've found one where a dwarf used a heavy coffin as his weapon, and then put the corpses in the coffin to make it even more lethally heavy.

Another one was a fort overrun with demons, the last survivor is a seven-year-old cornered. This child then proceeds to dodge every attack for half a year before starving to death.

At this point I'll just quote directly from TVTropes:

> The key word for describing Dwarf Fortress is "complex". The game attempts to simulate real physics, biology, and even chemistry as accurately as possible, with a surprising degree of success, at the cost of user-friendliness. For example, in lieu of Hit Points, the game has a detailed, IVAN-esque Subsystem Damage mechanic for all dwarves, monsters, and other creatures, and an attack targeting system that allows any unit to attack or grapple any part of its opponent's body with pretty much any still-attached prehensile appendage. The game only gets more convoluted from there, becoming denser with each update. The fans joke that the sole developer, Tarn "Toady One" Adams, will continue to make the game more and more granular until it reaches the subatomic level and begins to simulate quantum mechanics and particle physics. Judging by the way the game is growing, that prediction may become true.

It should say something that this exists and is almost 250 pages long.