This isn't my home board but my brother was shilling linux today and when I asked him what was better he gave vague answers like "it just is".
Personally, I think windows is near flawless but I've never used anything else. I don't work in IT but am a phd student so certainly know how to use it far better than the average normalfag and have literally never ever ran into anything so annoying I wanted to change OS.
So redpill me, what's actually better with linux for a normal user? Same thing applies to apple computers what's the point when most people use nothing but chrome, word and maybe torrents?
More secure, more customizablilty. I think thats it. Windows is pretty good but they mine so much of your data.
Sebastian Nelson
>redditor reads about free software for the first time
Parker Carter
Don't spoonfeed someone who can't even be bothered to spend 5 minutes looking up on Wikipedia.
Joshua Ward
Posted by a frogposter big surprise there
Andrew James
Nothing my pc is 2013 amd athlon and Windows 10 runs fine, have upgraded HD and graphics card since then but works fine desu, most complainers are worried about being botnet etc when in reality using anything on any os can be traced, someone using Linux and other methods doesn't have billions $ to spend on spying like governments or corporations..
Brandon Thompson
If all telemetry was opt-in it would be a decent OS for casual use, but the whole idea of assuming the user is retarded and can't do things himself makes it too annoying to use. Not to mention the recent lack of quality control and fucking up every update.
John Sanchez
I've looked it up and it gives a load of meme answers.
Just going to look at the first one (high security). Yes, this would be valid if it was a computer for mi5, but it's not. The most classified thing they'll get is what porn he looks at.
In my opinion, there is nothing bad enough with windows to make you want to change it. That's what I don't get, it just seems like a waste of time
Landon Butler
The only way to be botnet free is to use pen and paper and cash for everything $$
The normal versions of Windows 10 you buy off the shelf are unusable dogshit between the bloatware baby games installed and the telemetry and forced updates. Updates that break critical shit like win32 compatibility and delete documents. The enterprise versions are slightly better but still suffer from the same update problems and they still spy on you unless you do a bunch of registry edits, which don't take care of all the spying and sometimes get reset after updates. Earlier versions of Windows have all sorts of driver and other assorted system issues and XP especially loves to shit itself at random if you install anything. There's also Windows rot which means Windows systems that are left on for a couple years (CNC machines, medical devices, etc) won't turn on again if you turn them off because the system slowly corrupts itself somehow.
Linux on the other hand is stable, secure, and doesn't have any of the problems mentioned above. It's open source and it costs nothing, and there's no license key fuckery. You can run a web browser, office suites, text editors, all sorts of other desktop software for productivity. People here often bitch an complain that's not good as a desktop OS due to a lack of video games or other /v/toddler bullshit.
Pic related is Q4OS with TDE and it has everything I need. If you wanna give it a try the install ISO is smaller than 600MB and fits on a CD. If you use it in VirtualBox the software center has a one click install option for guest additions to get things like the screen resolution to work right.
Oh please PhD student, what have you done with windows that is far beyond a normalfags capabilities ?
Jordan Hughes
t.hasnt enjoyed himself in 10 years
Jaxon Davis
hundreds of small flaws make it a pain in the ass, even if you ignore the privacy issues. I hate that I have to use it but no other OS will do what I want.
Jayden Williams
You know there's more to life than bing bing wahoo numale shit, right faggot? Go back to
Matthew Jenkins
>calling others numale >uses linux the absolute irony
Carson Walker
Videogames are for fucking brainlet children. Douse yourself in gasoline and light yourself on fire
correct, real alpha males spend 25 hours a day either playing fortnite or posting fortnite memes on facebook
Hudson Evans
You're both fags. Stop caring what technology the other one uses.
Ayden Richardson
coc
Parker Fisher
Videogames aren't technology manchild. Go play with your toys in
Lincoln Smith
pajeets
Thomas Martinez
>software isnt technology then neither is linux
Oliver Scott
shit memory handling, shit thread scheduler, shit file sharing, shit networking, shit security. Updates on it's schedule, powershell is an abomination, cmd.exe is somehow worse. And then there is registry which is the stupidest piece of shit to exist in the history of computer operating systems. It is guaranteed to fuck itself, your user profiles and anything else. It literally gets cancer and corrodes. Feel free to look into any of these topics. You will find thousands of reasons windows sucks and should not be used.
Robert Jenkins
>go to /o/ >hurr durr I'm sticking my dick in the tailpipe of my car, it's totally on topic! >go to /ck/ >hurr durr I'm smearing peanut butter on my face this is cooking! >go to /mu/ >make inaudible screeching and farting noises, upload and spam it as music >go to Jow Forums >hurr durr I use da komputer as a toy it's relevant to the board hurrrr durrrr! You have a containment board and you have to go back.
Microshaft Wangblows users are always the ones asking for help on simplistic shit. You can always tell if someone is a Wangblows user just by the post even if they dont mention the OS directly
Luke Morris
I too was thinking that OP was going to troll or someshit, kek
>but they dont ? Is that a question or a statement? Learn English, moron.
Alexander Richardson
but linux doesn't spy on you
Jaxson Jones
>its not my specific preferred os so it doesnt count
Xavier Morris
>be winshitter >hear about linux >install worst distro >make tech support thread This is why Ubuntu threads happen.
Jace Roberts
Gook moot should really just block all Wangtards from posting here
Jonathan Reyes
>someone else should do something for me This is why your OS goes nowhere - all freetards are lazy and stupid like this.
Tyler Reyes
Literally every single word you said is wrong - as anyone who looks for 10 seconds knows. Let's just break it down to what you're really saying: >it doesn't work like unix so its shit