Running GNU/Linux....now what?

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An Operating system should just be a tool to get something done, you got memed.

You should be more frustrated by the fact that you listened to those people.

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my daughter renge is so cute

now learn how to make use of all the UNIX tools available to you. If you're a programmer this will be valuable knowledge because everyone uses UNIX systems.

install a full webserver stack on your desktop and send yourself emails.

Will this cost me any money at any point

no

Open terminal
>cd /
>ls -a
>su
Enter pow
>rm -R *
Have phun

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Rice it

wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/GNU/Linux_ricing

# rm -rf /

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I found a lot of programming related software doesn't work on windows, or is a pain to get working on windows. Automating even simple stuff on windows is very difficult. And theres no package management, so installing new software is very risky and cumbersome.

1. Enjoy more RAM being avalible for your programs now that windows isn't hogging it all
2. Enjoy faster boot and shutdown times, if not from having to load less bloat then from no longer having to fuck around with involuntary updates
3. Customize your desktop more than windows ever could
4. Learn bash to increase your productivity
5. Enjoy freedom
6. Enjoy much easier programming for real languages like C.

Oh and take a look through the Jow Forums wiki under reccomended software you might want to download and configure, which reminds me of another point

7. Enjoy a package manager

Based & Redpilled

Linux is a kernel.

Become a code monkey, or disposable sysadmin to your bosses running excel on their macbooks.

1. Learn Emacs.
It's the greatest thing ever.
I use it for my notes, diary, personal wiki (using org-mode) and even finances (ledger-mode).
In addition, Emacs helped me to get into programming and made my computing life richer.
2. Enjoy using free software. Software which let's you be in control over your machine.

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Compute

I dunno man, I play vidya on it. A big chunk of steam games work fine, Rust got a pretty nice update recently.

If you don't wanna run proprietary shit then install Xonotic from the repos and come play my dude. I love that shit.

customize your OS to absurd extents and make it do exactly what you want. Like, check Jow Forumsunixporn on reddit, you can make the OS look however you please. You can also automate a lot of shit.

We live in a society.

Forget customizing your desktop, you can chose your desktop. You don't even need one if you don't want.

You do the same shit you do on Windows, except now it runs more smoothly, and you have new options available to you.

I started using Linux by distrohopping for a few months, settled down with Mint Cinnamon for a good year, but I was in your boat and didn't really know what to do with this.

But then I installed and customized Arch to make a pretty looking OS just for me, and that's when I truly fell in love.

For me the most important feature Linux has over Windows is better workflow customization, like binding keys to focus certain windows. In Windows you're stuck to Win+1, 2, 3 etc, but in Linux I bound it to the same, but also things like Win+W for World of Warcraft.

Also, OpenBox's ability to alt-drag to move and resize windows is amazing. There's a program to do it on Windows but it's far from as fluid and comfortable.

Also, I have an NFS server set up, which works much better natively with Linux and OSX compared to Windows.

>i just got a specific car.....now what?
>dude, go places in it
>BUT I CAN DO THAT WITH ANY CAR!
you're retarded. do you not actually think about why you should do things before you do them?

Stallman and others have pointed out that Linux is really the operating system kernel. Much of everything outside the kernel comes from the Free Software Foundation's GNU Project. The purists rightfully call the complete system "GNU/Linux," of which the Linux kernel is an essential component. Having given credit where credit is due, we recognize that most of the world has already recognized "Linux" as the nomenclature of choice.

yeah so why pay shekels to microsoft for something you can do on any OS?

that's not even true though.
GNU software doesn't even make up 30% of the software you use

Not even 10% if you're paying attention. But to have a minimal Linux OS that's usable to expand and improve upon, I would say that it is about right.

>You do the same shit you do on Windows,
Except a lot of your favorites productivity applications have no Linux versions, and Wine / Mono suck ass

yes, but not freely :^)
What this implies is you can do *whatever* you want with your OS.

what are your favorite productivity applications?

>not running a custom Linux kernel

This is only true if you're a power user.
Tbh, you probably just need a smart phone and nothing else.

>6. Enjoy much easier programming for real languages like C.
this is also true for a majority of languages, you don't have to fuck with MSYS2 anymore.

Learn bash, python, c and assembly.

SubtitleEdit (running in mono breaks the GUI somewhat, and some action works much slower)
MS Word (macro doesn't work at all)
Paint.Net (haven't tried this one, actually, and linux has pinta - maybe it's as good)

>productivity
>MS Word
LMAO

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Well I meant in comparison to Windows - GNU/Linux makes programming in everything easy but Python for example is just as easy in Windows as it is GNU/Linux so it's not worth mentioning.

Wouldn't matter if it's 1% if it's an essencial part of the complete system.

A new OS is like a new language. You can learn a new language, but not all the words you know will have a direct translation for that language, because the concept may not exist in the country where the language is spoken. The opposite can happen as well.

For example.. if you're American, you probably speak a variant of nigger English, using a lot of made up words that reference the ghettos you live in and the poverty you experience.
It would be almost impossible to translate those words into, let's say, Danish or Norwegian.

The switch from Windows to Linux is like the switch from US English to Norwegian.

Hahahhahaahahahahaha...

Just kidding. Go drink your onions, linux loser

How to drink onions?
t. Not a loser
iusearchbtw

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>Implying you can't be productive on windows

Why do GNOME eats 1,8 GB on idle when Windows 10 eats just 1 GB? This happened on my laptop. GNOME, Unity, KDE run like shit and I have tearing with every one of them. No issues with Windows 10 at all, mostly because it is the LTSB version.

Use a better DE/WM, openbox is great for newbies.

>not used RAM = wasted RAM
GNOME is superior in every way compared to any DE.

If it is superior, why does it lag like hell? Why is it made for touchscreen? Why do I have tearing. I thought GNOME doesn't tear, that's why I even installed it.

I'm not really a newbie, I'm just tired of most DEs. I don't remember trying Openbox but Linux is still horrible for hardware acceleration in browsers and I need it because I have a slow CPU. Also don't know what compositors to use anymore, even the kernel option for Intel doesn't help with the tearing.

lol. Buy good gear. I've got Plasma5 running clean with less than 200MB and less than 1 GB with a webbrowser and a chess engine running.

I write porn scraping scripts when i use linux
pastebin.com/niA894Hn
hobby programmer btw im a carpenter irl which is reflected in my code

>smoothly
you actually believe it?

We see code here every day for the last 1000 years, show us some carpentry stuff instead pls

no Jow Forums is for code

>why does it lag
Stop using memepads
>why is it made for touchscreen?
How many touchscreen devices use GNOME?
Exactly.
>why do I have tearing
Because you use X like a pleb
>I thought GNOME doesn't tear
It doesn't.

just "sudo apt update" every 12 seconds

write a script that randomly deletes a file from your computer and replaces it with an image of the plane crash scene from TDKR.
then have fun finding it

It’s just called Linux, faggot.

>GNOME eats 1.8GB
Even is that is true (seriously?) here's the best part about GNU/Linux - if a component sucks, just replace it. Get a lightweight DE like XFCE (install compton if you get screentares) and you'll take up like .5GB idle.

See

Learn the command line. start simple with moving between directories, listing stuff in directories, moving and copying files, outputting text to a file, pipes, common tools like cat, grep, less, vim. As you learn you'll start to use it more in daily stuff and then remember it better.

It takes a bit for it to click, and it takes some work as well. If you're just pointing and clicking through a GUI like you were on Windows, you won't notice much benefit. You gotta start to learn.