Hey anons, why don't you spend an autistic amount of time installing, ricing and maintaining your gnu/linux machines? >god tier customization, can make a waifu shrine >free as in freedom software to protect against (((them))) >gives basic knowledge of how systems work
>But I don't know how!!! Bullshit, grab yourself a USB, head over to your preferred distribution site, use the site distrowatch to make your choice. Follow the "How to make a bootable USB" guides. Make sure to back up your important winshit files and carry them over onto your fresh new system
>but muh gaaayyymmeeesss!!! k stay on windows? no one is forcing you to give up your manchild hobbies. see about duel booting your operating systems to get the best of both worlds
I will never like anime, ever. Dont call me a manchild, manchild.
Joseph Diaz
Checked That's totally fine, you can always rice you system for other themes. It is not anime exclusive. Also I apologize for calling you a manchild, but the default response for people attached to windows because muh gaymes is to act as if you have been personally attacked by the suggestion of installing linux when duel booting exists, and there are lots of games available for linux now, granted no where near the library of windows.
What is the point if I am not into programming, admin, servers or any IT related stuff? It will be just incovenient to google any problem and spend my non existent free time most days during the week. Linux won't save you from getting spied on. It is stupid to even care unless you are diagnosided with aspergers and this is your kick.
William Gutierrez
Because video games. Duel booting would be a hassle. That said I absolutely hate microshit and w*ndows.
I hate that I have to crop your shitty image for the not-a-real-catgirl image. Whatever.
David Parker
>What is the point if I am not into programming, admin, servers or any IT related stuff? There are a lot of benefits to using gnu/linux and the vast repositories of alternative software they provide as opposed to the mainstream blaoted, spyware,adware crap you tend to default to on a windows system. >It will be just incovenient to google any problem and spend my non existent free time most days during the week Some of the mainstream distributions require virtually no time to set up and maintain, with a shelf life of 5 years for long term support releases. It really is not as difficult as it sounds. >Linux won't save you from getting spied on. Well that is relative. Using an OS that reports ALL of your actions on it to a server isn't exactly helping you, just solidifying that fact you will be spied on by a malicious malware company throwing up ads in your notification bar and app menu. Free software can absolutely "save" you from being spied on. I don't see how you could deny this?
tried ubuntu/mint/openuse/fedora and it's always some bullshit that doesn't work. my biggest bitch is that in one of them the store wouldn't load so I can install stuff on it. tried doing it with commands and nothing. even on another computer something is always in need of fixing or something doesn't work. waste of time and energy. perhaps I just have garbage computers even after I did a complete wipe of my windows os and one of them is fairly new
Robert Campbell
Checked Also here you go Works on my machine brainlet :3
Using Linux is often more work than its worth. I don't give a fuck about customisation or being able to dick around with inferior free software. Even on ubuntu a lot of shit doesn't work out of the box or arbitrarily breaks.
Evan Perry
Do you have a discord man? I'd like to learn from you and become friends.
Carter Clark
well, congrats. enjoy your autism machine, bud.
Dominic Scott
I don't have one to hand, will shoot you my new acc in about 10 minutes.
Slow, buggy, way too easy to hack into. I do have to use it occasionally and just can't stand how it turned to shit in the past 10 years or so.
Sebastian Nelson
How exactly do you "hack into" a cryptfs partition smartass.If you are talking about an unencrypted install then of course, but windows is VERY easy to bypass too with no easy full disk encryption solution, especially one not built in.
Joseph Sanders
Thank you I will be waiting user
Cooper Sullivan
>pretentious: the operating system
no thanks
Anthony Price
I am using default ubuntu 16.04 because I need the flexibility of a package manager and unix style automation principles
Have fun with your autistic wallpaper fiddling
Jeremiah Phillips
fde without tpm doesn't do anything, it's barely a speed bump But I was talking servers of course. you can pwn most linux boxes with a couple scripts from github. Green admins thinking you can apply security updates with rebooting doesn't help at all.
The best FDE available has been built into windows since 2013. Not that it matters much though, FDE is irrelevant in most threat scenarios.
Eli Powell
I have been using GNU/Linux for about 5 years. I never boot into Windows anymore.
Caleb Russell
This was Debian 9 XFCE I've never tried out fedora, what's it like? I still need to buy a thinkpad, seen a decent looking x220 for about $140 Only 3 years~ here, and I would still say I could not install something like slack or arch, brainlet. But I can do the simple shit and make my distro look nice, presentable and usable.
I am sure you would be able to install arch, their documentation is top notch.
Dominic Baker
can I have that wallpaper mr user?
Jaxson Wright
You're a parrot. You parrot everything Jow Forums tells you and it's evident in everything from your opinions, what you use, your desktop, and how you carry yourself.
Spending hours fumbling around in config files, terminals, and compiling from source to access a tiny, sub-par software library of mediocre hobbyist garbage made with no monetary incentive is nothing more than an e-peen measuring contest and should be reserved for second partitions, PCs, or servers.
Computers are for executing programs and getting work done. You're too incompetent to do that so you spend all this time configuring simple things that would otherwise be simple tasks in other OS's to make yourself look smarter. Have fun with your broken kernel.
Install a desktop OS and get some real work done.
Sincerely, a GNU/Linux veteran.
Henry Adams
Went to school and had to switch from Arch to Windows for time convenience. I really miss being able to fix everything on my computer. (((Windows))) makes error messages so ambiguous that it is basically impossible to diagnose problems short of using a debugger, the worst way to figure out errors on software. Or if the GUI fails, you are fucked. If the internet button doesn't let you get internet, you are just stuck with no internet unless a lucky reboot, update, or call to customer service saves you. While in Arch there was a wiki for it every time. It was all a huge time eater, but learning that much for each challenge helped me understand fundamentals of CLI and file trees when I was first learning how to use language programs
Austin Cooper
Also, "Linux is better for programmers" is no less of a meme than "Mac is better for audiovisual engineers". Sure, there are lots of useful libraries included by default, but that's easy to get on any other system.
Also Linux has shit-tier customization desu. If you have enough knowhow, Windows 7 is the true patrician OS for customization.
Christopher Allen
I hoesntly tried in the years 2001-2003, just not smart enough I guess. There was always a problem. Want to play a video spend 6 hours trying to get it to work.
Kevin Flores
Oh and one last footnote, I'm typing this from Debian on a t400. Linux should be reserved for secondary PCs, partitions, and servers. This t400 is definitely not my main system. I use it mainly for shitposting and web browsing in bed because that's about all you can really do on Linux, for the most part, unless you're doing some super secret uber hax0r stuff. I depend on Windows for my main rig because I need ease of access, stability, and superior proprietary software to get real work done. I'll never understand people who have like 32gb of ram and a beefy cpu and gpu but run arch. All that power wasted.
Josiah Martinez
Here, I found the attention (You) were looking for
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-caIIled "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
