So what’s the deal with Linux?

So what’s the deal with Linux?

What’s so great about it?

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It's not great at all, we just don't have any better alternatives. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This. But Linux is the best choice right now because it can run web browsers and office software without forcibly rebooting your machine and wiping your documents, and it runs on almost any hardware.

Exactly. Linux is basically what general-purpose OS-es should be. It's nothing more, really, and all the alternatives out there are literal trash.

It works well and is free. Runs the most popular OS in the world.

people basically use it because they don't like switching like 20sliders and changing settings when they install windows to stop it doing annoying stuff.

It's used by hackers, because it has a command line.

what os?

>Runs the most popular OS in the world.
What metric are you using?

Autistic weebs on Jow Forums will think you're cool if you tell them you use it.

>less supported than Windows
>95% of userbase are neckbeards
>confusing to the masses
>literally no selling point other than retards who think it's more secure and private than windows/OSX (spoiler alert: it isn't)

It's not Windows or macOS, making those with oppositional defiant disorder happy. All other reasons given are post-hoc rationalisation (explaining why they're usually lies).

I imagine he's referring to GNU

Anything other than desktop computing is dominated by GNU/Linux

>Anything that doesn't matter is dominated by GNU/Linux
Glad we straightened that out.

From a developer point of view, it's POSIX-availability and low-level ioctls on hand.
At the distro level, it's the availability of any IDE of choice on hand.
For the rest, don't bother. Unless you wanna be the power user, you don't use a Linux distro as a daily driver.

Wow ebin bait dude

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>IDE
I am almost certain you didn't mean that.

It's utter trash. Unfortunately everything else is even more unacceptable dogshit (except for a few runners-up, like OpenBSD). And unfortunately it looks set to stay this way because every small OS project that looks conceptually very good actually doesn't support any relevant modern hardware and never will.

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It's not that great, just not total and complete garbage like most of the others.

Cut out office users that are not in charge of their OS choice, then the pirated chinese XPs (or are they 7 now?) and suddenly the percentages look a lot different.

vim+gcc+make, albeit somewhat minimal, is still an IDE.

There are far more (and better) IDEs on other operating systems. Hence why I thought you must have meant DEs, and the I slipped in by accident.

>desktop computing
>in 2018
>matters more
imagine being this delusional.

>my phoneposting is more important than desktops where actual work is done
Begone, child.

Your roastie in HR doesn't need her computer. Paper spreadsheets will do just fine, and browsing facebook isn't part of the job description.
On the other hand the commercial database system powering your entire enterprise on the backend can't feasibly be done without a computer. And same goes for every single important backend system out there.

As for personal use, computers don't matter either. Go to a fucking bar and have a drunken fight instead of browsing Jow Forumsfunny and playing games in the evenings/weekends. Read a book. Watch TV if you really can't find anything else to do. And if you want to talk to someone, both phone calls and SMS have existed for at least a decade longer than skype/whatsapp/discord and the like.

No, DE are only a matter of interest for ricers, but they still are too convoluted for the pleb.
Also, about IDE, it's not a matter of quality but a matter of diversity and availability.

The world would turn into utter chaos if you magically made all Linux kernels malfunction (vast majority of servers and phones). Literally nothing would happen if you did the same with homOSeX, while financial institutions and corporations would suffer for weeks if you did the same to wangblows.

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fpbp

>all these people actually taking the bait
it's not even summer

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>servers don't matter
>mainframes don't matter
>embedded devices don't matter
>super computers don't matter
>smartphones don't matter
>self-driving cars don't matter
>only desktop gaymen /v/toddler pcs matter

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ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

>On the other hand the commercial database system powering your entire enterprise on the backend
Is likely SQL Server for most enterprises, since they outnumber absolute giants who can afford the time, effort and consultancy to deploy a Unix-type solution 100 to 1.

Stop pretending crApple posters are trolls. They are actual iCucks who worship their favorite corporation

>strawman
Automatic fail. Unsurprising.

>literally no selling point other than retards who think it's more secure and private than windows/OSX (spoiler alert: it isn't)

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>y-y-your p-p-post doesn't m-matter!

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>wojakposting
Since when did Jow Forums become /v/ 2.0?

Windows is shit for actual work, simple tasks like running python scripts tasks significant set up and wasted time. Linux is the best development environment, the rest of computers are linux phones connected to each other by linux servers.

The images cut deep, didn't they? Go back to /v/

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Small enterprises will use AWS which means using a linux distro and installing mysql on it takes about five minutes.

Android.