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kurcatovium , 6 days ago in Distro for n100

Anything with XFCE or LXQt desktop? You can try to install that on Garuda/Arch you already have. Or something like Sway, but that might be too awkward from the start.

eldavi , 6 days ago in Before your change to Linux

windows me

i think it should be pretty self explanatory why a switch was necessary. lol

Dalde , 6 days ago in Distro for n100

Void Linux.

thingsiplay , 6 days ago in Is there a better way to browse man pages?

Sorry for my previous comment. I was commenting before reading the entire post and was missing the point. On a sidenote, its often enough and helpful to just list the options with program -h or –help . Sometimes the help option has more information or is easier to understand than the man document.

When I search for options in a man document, I usually try it with putting a dash in front of it as -x or –ignore in example. For really large documents sometimes it can help to add a space before it " -x" or a comma after it "-x, " depending on how its actually written. BTW the man program itself has a builtin help you can show by just pressing h while looking at a document.

DieserTypMatthias , 6 days ago in Possible to use Linux for Wi-Fi drivers on Windows?

It is possible if you crosscompile the drivers for Windows. But switch to Fedora, it’s not hard.

OsrsNeedsF2P , 6 days ago

for school work.

2xsaiko , 6 days ago

You cannot cross-compile Linux kernel drivers for Windows. The API is completely different (and I kinda doubt anyone has made a compatibility layer like ndiswrapper).

ReversalHatchery , 6 days ago

Besides that, you won’t be able to get your drivers signed for windows to accept them, so it’s basically futile anyway

OneCardboardBox , 6 days ago in Is there a better way to browse man pages?

As an emacs user, I use M-x man. All my standard keybindings make finding what I need very easy.

Of course, it’s not so fast if you aren’t already in emacs.

thingsiplay , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

I want to mention that one can set the pager for man to be Vim too. Then it would load the document in Vim instead in less for display and navigation. This can be set with option man -P pager or with the environmental variable $MANPAGER or $PAGER . I had set this up in the past with original Vim, but it required some special options for Vim as well. It was nice, but ultimately not needed; so I went back to less. Sometimes less is more.

Edit: Here is how one can use Neovim as the pager:

<span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">export </span><span style="color:#323232;">MANPAGER</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#183691;">'nvim +Man!'
</span>

I kind of missed it and will set it to this now. Put this line in the Bash configuration .bashrc and every man document is loaded in Neovim now.

amanneedsamaid , 6 days ago

+1, displaying in a Emacs buffer solves any issues I could have. If you’re already ‘in’ Emacs, this will be more frictionless than shell scripts around man

Diplomjodler3 , 6 days ago in Distro for n100

I’ve run Mint without any issues on machines with far weaker processors. I don’t think the hardware is the issue here.

aStonedSanta OP , 6 days ago

Sounds like a good time to test out a new distro 💜

Diplomjodler3 , 6 days ago

Absolutely.

entropicdrift , 6 days ago

I run LMDE on my N100 mini-pc that I use as a server. It was super easy to setup

sping , 6 days ago in Is there a better way to browse man pages?

Sorry it’s not a very direct answer but this is one of the many things that make Emacs such a comfortable environment once you’re used to it, which takes … a while.

There is a man command and then of course it’s just more text displayed so you can search and narrow and highlight etc. in the same way you do with any other text. Plus of course there are a few trivial bonuses like links to other man pages being clickable.

It’s all text and Emacs is a text manipulation framework (that naturally includes some editors).

pr06lefs , 6 days ago in Is there a better way to browse man pages?

Kind of off topic, but you know what would be cool? If you had an ‘man explain’ command that would define all the flags/args in a command, like:

man explain rsync --append-verify --progress -avz -e “ssh -p 2222” root@$dip:/sdcard/DCIM/Camera newphonepix

Would give you:

<span style="color:#323232;">rsync - a fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      --append-verify          --append w/old data in file checksum
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      --progress               show progress during transfer
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      --archive, -a            archive mode is -rlptgoD (no -A,-X,-U,-N,-H)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      --verbose, -v            increase verbosity
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      --compress, -z           compress file data during the transfer
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      --rsh=COMMAND, -e        specify the remote shell to use 
</span>

etc.

agentsac , 6 days ago

Like this?

matrixrunner , 6 days ago

Or these?

thingsiplay , 6 days ago

You can just grep the help output

<span style="color:#323232;">$ rsync --help </span><span style="color:#0086b3;">2</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">>&</span><span style="color:#323232;">amp</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">;</span><span style="color:#323232;">1 </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">grep -E </span><span style="color:#183691;">'^ *(--append-verify|--progress|--archive)'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">--archive, -a            archive mode is -rlptgoD (no -A,-X,-U,-N,-H)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">--append-verify          --append w/old data in file checksum
</span><span style="color:#323232;">--progress               show progress during transfer
</span>

So it should be possible to create a simple script to do that. Similarly one can output the man document as text to stdout, which in turn can be grepped. I have no grep command at hand to do this in a useful way:

<span style="color:#323232;">man grep </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">col -b
</span>

Majestix , 6 days ago

There is a Plugin for Zsh (ohmyzsh) that gives you that right in the shell. I use it all the time and rely on it. Don’t have the name on my mind though, sorry.

bitfucker , 5 days ago

Please do tell once you’ve figured it out.

gomp , 6 days ago

Here’s what I get in fish when I start writing a rsync command and hit tab to ask for completions:

<span style="color:#323232;">❱ rsync --append-verify --progress -avz -
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-0  --from0                               (All *from/filter files are delimited by 0s)  --delete                   (Delete files that don’t exist on sender)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-4  --ipv4                                                               (Prefer IPv4)  --delete-after         (Receiver deletes after transfer, not before)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-6  --ipv6                                                               (Prefer IPv6)  --delete-before         (Receiver deletes before transfer (default))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-8  --8-bit-output                          (Leave high-bit chars unescaped in output)  --delete-delay                 (Find deletions during, delete after)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[more lines omitted]
</span>

TeddyKila , 4 days ago

Fish does this but is intentionally POSIX noncompliant so you’d wanr to keep the old shell installed if you run other people’s script.

Deckweiss , 6 days ago in Before your change to Linux

Windows 7.

I dabbled in Ubuntu long before.

But when they removed focus stealing prevention, I got extremely frustrated. And as soon as Steam had a beta client for Linux I completely jumped ship.

…microsoft.com/…/4ee5be7d-31ef-493b-b092-f6f6139f…?

traches , 6 days ago in Is there a better way to browse man pages?

I’d also like some guidance on this problem (other than “use emacs”), but searching for “ -x” will have a lower false positive rate

not3ottersinacoat , 6 days ago in Before your change to Linux

I actually switched from OSX Snow Leopard after college. But several years prior, the last version of Windows I used, on the family computer, was XP.

The_Zen_Cow_Says_Mu , 6 days ago in Distro for n100

It’s a contemporary 4 core processor. It can run anything.

Heck, my 8gig 2010 MacBook with a core duo runs gnome on Debian without any issues.

jeffreyosborne , 6 days ago in Is there a better way to browse man pages?

I like tldr. It doesnt give incredibly in depth explanations, but it does show the basics of using most commands.

underisk , 6 days ago

tldr.inbrowser.app for anyone curious. There’s also a command line version you can install.

rotopenguin , 6 days ago

I have to remember to use tldr, one of these days. Some manpages get so lost in the pedantry of covering everything that the 99 percentile stuff is buried.

nore , 6 days ago in Is there a better way to browse man pages?

I’ve had this same situation happen to me before and my solution was to search -x instead of just x.