2019 reminder: Linux still does not have a stable system of libraries and APIs to allow developers create efficient and stable software.
Windows 10 can flawlessly run software created in 2001 by some stupid winfag who may forgot about his own creation long time ago or may be already dead.
In Linux, whatever you make will become an obsolete rubbish pile of code in less than 6 months. To prevent this you must constantly work on it and fix it with every update.
Not only free software philosophy makes you work for free; it makes you a slave of your own project.
The very failure of GNU socialists lies in the fact that Linux has stable and efficient software which is being supported throughout the years; but it was made possible only with investments and support of proprietary and capitalist system. Companies and corporations fund mostly server development, hence why Linux is such a great OS for servers but the desktop experience is barely far away from unusable state.
No one wants to be a Linux slave for free and this is why no more people create native software but prefer to use bloated cross-platform frameworks, such as electron.
Linux is slavery
Cool blog post.
Linux isn't socialist or communist. Stallman is a weirdo but GNU shit is dying off. Open source isn't about muh socialisms. I use Linux because it's more stable, does what I tell it to, and doesn't force autoupdates down my throat. I liked Mac OS and apple for a while back in the day but I don't like how they've changed over the years and I also can't justify the price of their products (even though I could afford it, my PC cost ~$5k but is far better than any similarly priced mac)
I've basically been forced into Linux because it causes me the least problems. I'd love to pay for an OS that works really well but right now, software across the board is trash, you might as well use something that you can fix yourself when it breaks. Same reason I don't like luxury cars. I'd rather drive a car I can fix rather than a lexus or bmw that is full of proprietary shit I can't reasonably fix/replace myself.
>In Linux, whatever you make will become an obsolete rubbish pile of code in less than 6 months. To prevent this you must constantly work on it and fix it with every update.
Both the Linux kernel and GNU project go to obscene lengths to avoid ever breaking userspace, which is why they have a code ugliness problem (still orders of magnitude more maintainable than Windows, but that's not an achievement). I can guarantee you that any breakages you've experienced are because of distro incompetence, presumably Debian or Fedora developers dicking around with things they shouldn't. Sorry you had to deal with this, but place blame where it is due.
>No one wants to be a Linux slave for free and this is why no more people create native software but prefer to use bloated cross-platform frameworks, such as electron.
Good. People who think Electron is a good idea should be blacklisted from free software projects, if not the entire software industry.
Code is maintained by the community.
>but muh proprietary-
Fuck your proprietary programs. I'm glad that the Linux ecosystem makes it as hard as possible for you guys.
Nobody uses your software for desktops anyway so enjoy your elitist little corner boi. The only time I've seen the linuxfag community happy recently was when Valve started with Proton. A big huge multimillion dollar company that got rich through proprietary software. Enjoi
If you are a productive human being that is not exclusively a programmer, Linux is unnecessarily complicated and tiresome.
I resoect it if you want to mess around with it as a hobby, but if anyone claims it is more productive than windows, they are a small baby.
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-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
well someone hasn't checked out the ubuntu snap store
Well meme'd friendo. Can you even batch rename files in your toy explorer.exe?
1. Unix/linux has been around for much longer than any windows version, and probably runs most of the enterprise legacy code nowadays, atleast when it comes to servers.
2. i wouldn't be suprised if i could run a 30 year old Research Unix shell on my bleeding edge void linux laptop.
3. you are a slave of the code you wrote regardless of OS. Everything changes constantly. This includes libraries, bug fixes, GUI toolkits, security patches, so on and so forth. I personally wouldn't want to use a 18 year old piece of software that has an uncountable amount of vulnerabilites which weren't discovered at the time of it's writing.
Woah why is the pic a black guy, what are you implying OP?
>Windows 10 can flawlessly run software created in 2001 by some stupid winfag who may forgot about his own creation long time ago or may be already dead.
Imagine telling lies on the internet
Uuhh my creaishon shudl meik monies until I dye plus 70 yr after
Des pite I not touched it sinc it's creaishon
>Windows 10 can flawlessly run software created in 2001 by some stupid winfag who may forgot about his own creation long time ago or may be already dead.
As someone who works in an environment that deals with a lot of legacy stuff:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
hear hear
Lies: the post
he has a solid point, Ubuntu needs to see if they can get reverse compatibility going on. Start with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS since it's an LTS.
Get projects to port old software.
However corect me if I'm wrong MacFags have the same fucking problem on their properitary OS.
stallman never said this
DOS predates Linux by ten years or so
Is linux even that good for programming? If you're in a big corporation you're forced to use VS anyways, which is on wangblows
what part do you not understand of "stallman never said this"?
Are you illiterate
The pasta is a paraphrase of something he wrote on his website.
Stallman never said this.
I love hearing from prepubescent twats who thibk that Linux is just some passing hipster fad. Meanwhile itbis the driving force behind most of the devices, servers and cloud serviced on the planet.
I would end this with something soothing like YMMV but that would be a lie. The age of bloated and locked down proprietary software is coming to an end RSN.
>year of the linux desktop: the post
Based and apipilled
Read the link idiot he wrote it. Look at the byline. All that was added was “I’d like to interject for a moment.”
But he's right you retardismus maximus
I can still run my old projects that I developed in visual basic fucking 3 point fucking 0
Face it, Windows works and Linux is a masturbatory system for nerds with too much free time
>All that was added was “I’d like to interject for a moment.
Thus, a paraphrase.
Looks like you were the dyslexic one all along.
Not just that: The Windows API is also, by design, faster than any UNIX-like one can ever be, because it was designed to do things you'd need dozens of context switches for in Unix in a single one.
Also, do your mandatory reading on how fundamentally broken something as simple as creating new processes is in UNIX:
microsoft.com
>hey guys I’m only pretending to be retarded
Get a load of this dumb fuck who doesn't know what a paraphrase is.
>my fizzbuzz that I wrote in vb still werks XD
kys
This.
Ideally in the future FOSS will find a way to let software developers reliably make money off their work through a universal application distribution network (like AppImage).
My idea is an optional pay method starting at 0$ and allowing the user to name their price.
It doesn't have a driver framework too, that's why no one bothers developing drivers for this POS
based and redpilled year of the linux post, just like back in my 2004.
>I can still run my shitty projects, so every legacy project works
It's a shame retards are allowed on the internet
Gnome is mostly to blame for that
No one said 'every'. The possibility is still here and for most old software it works. Let me just launch my Icewind Dale and Office 97 and laugh at you.
The same can be said about unix and unix like systems, and therefore rendering the point moot.
>The same can be said
no, it can't. Even the simpleton software needs patches.
>Even the simpleton software needs patches.
Like?
Backwards compatibility is indeed shit on Linux.
Yes, you can.
google.com
This isn't what I meant.
>renaming all files to be my_file (357).JPG
Who the fuck finds that useful? WinToddlers can't even find/replace batch rename in their file manager and yet, "hurr durr, Windows for productivity, who even uses Linux?" The absolute state of you faggots amazes me.
If you want something else install a program that does that. How much of a fucking brainlet are you?
>installing a second file manager for a basic task the first should have done
>can't even remove the first
You WinFags have no idea what "bloat", and will literally install anything without a second thought for a trivial task, won't you? Tell me user, do you have McAfee installed on your system right now?
Nautilus does the same and got this feature only in 2016 or so.
why would you want to remove the core part of your system?
>installing a second file manager
Who said that, you absolute fucking retard?
Because it's about having choice. If the stock FM doesn't suit your needs, fine. You should be able to remove it since that's the case.
What? You're going to install a batch file renamer? An entire GUI program for just one function?
>Nautilus
Except I can choose not to install it on my system. Can't do the same with explorer.exe
>why would you want to remove the core part of your system?
A file manager isn't a core part of any decent system.
>are you gonna install a program that does exactly what you need?
Yes, I will.
>Linux
is this how the breakaway civilization begins?
The pure cancer of this post. Imagine consuming 300MB+ of disk space for a graphical program that consumes 64MB+ RAM due to statically linked libraries, all for something as trivial as batch renaming files. This is why pajeets continue to write shit-tier software for your platform. Because you normalfags eat that shit up.
UNIX systems are actually really bad for programming. They don't hold a candle even to half a century old mainframe OSes
Yeah, so what?
you understand that explorer does much more than just being a file manager, right? All while giving you unified experience and being prone to failures unlike linux Frankenstein of different components which are not working well together.
>copied filename
>can't even paste it into another program because I need to install clipboard to handle it first
>all data is being lost anyway after you close the parent of clipboard data
>What? You're going to install a batch file renamer?
powershell is already present in your system. Anyway, how is it different from installing another FM? You don't like you have to install another FM yet you complain that you must have choice?
DEATH TO ELECTRON!
>i wouldn't be suprised if i could run a 30 year old Research Unix shell on my bleeding edge void linux laptop
Recompiling doesn't count here.
Windows in x86 flavors can run well-written 16-bit applications almost flawlessly.
>unified experience
>which are not working well together
Hi Rajesh, I think I'm in the wrong department. Can you transfer me from marketing to the WinFag I was talking to?
>cites a flaw in the X11 protocol, shit that's existed since the 80's and isn't exclusive to Linux or even the UNIXs.
Um, okay?
>PowerShell
Well meme'd. I actually had to use PS to batch rename recently. Absolute cancer. Being productive with its OOP model (for a fucking shell) and args longer than GNU to guarantee arthritis. Not to mention anything outside the scope of the provided CMDlets sees you installing a bloated GUI program anyways, since nobody targets PS for a reason.
*not being prone
guess I memed myself rn
PS may be a total cancer, it still does that you asked for without the need to install 3rd party software.
>but muh explorer.exe
>but muh choice
GNOME is de-facto the standard of Linux DE, like you it or not, and it ships Nautilus which has the same if not less functionality as file manager that Windows Explorer has. You can't just say "your windows explorer sucks because it cannot do what my obscure 3rd party file manager can", explorer is the basement of user GUI.
>GNOME
>defacto standard
Pick one. There *are* distros other than Ubuntu you know (who only switch from Unity in 2018).
>my obscure 3rd party file manager
What? Everything's third party on Linux. That's the point.
>basement of user GUI
As tried to explain, that is *the problem*
> less functionality
Just had to include this, because Jesus, my sides. Also, you keep comparing Explorer to Nautilus, pretending (or not knowing), others, like Thunar, exist. I'd be more worried about Dolphin tho.
Not everyone uses Gnome or a DE for that matter. I still use nautilus when I want to find videos to play or peruse an hd or usb drive, because it's just convenient.
Comparing bash to PS is retarded. When did bash get released, and for what purpose? Apples and oranges.
Linux is a kernel. Go back to the reddit.
you can replace explorer with another FM.
>There *are* distros other than Ubuntu you know
and they are not standard. Thanks to Red Hat and Canonical GNOME represents Linux. There are many reasons why, accessibility is one of them. You can search free if you want. KDE got better with time, I agree.
I'm not comparing bash to PS. He asked for batch renaming and now switches topics on the fly, because he does not like nor 3rd party software (but that's the point as he said himself) nor PS script nor the default explorer functionality. Any argument you throw at him he denies because, well, that's what freetard is.
>GNOME is de-facto the standard of Linux DE
why, because you say so?
because Red Hat Enterprise and Canonical ship it. No sane person wants to use your obscure bunsenlabs arch linux with i3wm.
>arch w/ tiling wm
Why not? To me, it's the sanest option.
they also ship KDE, why isn't KDE the de-facto standard Linux DE?
Debian, Arch, Fedora, Mint collectively outweigh Ubuntu in install count massively. Most of which, allow the user to choose DE at install time. Solus is big now too, and doesn't use Gaynome
>switches topics on the fly
I understand that your ADHD might be struggling a bit here, but do try to keep up. PS *is* a solution to the batch renaming problem, but A) it's not a GUI method, Norman won't understand, and, B) I'd need an entire thread for why designing a shell around OOP is autistic.
this
I agree. Not for normal people though.
Debian uses GNOME as a main DE, Fedora uses GNOME as a main DE, Mint is based on Gnome. Arch does not have the DE itself. Are you retarded or what?
>PS *is* a solution to the batch renaming problem, but
But explorer implements the GUI method with the same functionality GNOME Nautilus has. And GNOME is again the standard of Linux DE.
What the fuck is this font rendering, dude? Since when is it so blurry?
Linux is an operating system. Go back to /v/
or you release the source code and have another autist fix it once you die or become bored.
your mom operates my system, if you know what I mean.
i love slavery
>not using BSD
Well no wonder you can't do anything useful
systemd, snaps, flatpaks, appimages, and docker are changing that
fuck :-/
i am king of bash scripting. ask me questions.