>>109480211
Linux is just a colonel

I will rape your dead skull

>>109480211
relax it only took me 18 hours to compile xfce on my pentium

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>>109480211
Refutable

>>109480211
>linux
>when you want your OS to be your second job

>>109480211
>Linux
>Shit breaks, spend some time fixing it.

>Windows
>Shit breaks, lie there contemplating your life choices.

I know what I'd rather be doing.

We need to autoban the discussion of linux for a few days, /g/. Not forever, just for a few days, until the over zealous Linux users realize that they are only 1% of that market and it is NOT fair that 1% of the market gets half the threads and discussion here. This isn't representative of the populace and is NOT FUCKING FAIR. I come here to discuss technology, particularly computers. Why is such a small minority in this arena practically owning the fucking board?

I do use Windows, and while I have apple, at least the Macfags and the threads here are representative of population and market of OSX users. Unlike the tiny Linux using minority here that seems to make at least 3 threads a piece, because I know there is not that fucking many linux users.

STOP SHITTING UP THE BOARD WITH SUB PAR SHIT

I actually find it fun. It's like a hobby. I like to think of it the way car guys spend a lot of time tinkering with their cars, only somewhat lamer.

>>109480758
>they are only 1%
This isn't 2016 anymore, grandpa.
Pretty much any "tech literate" friend I know IRL has considered switching. Me and another guy already have. Going by Steam statistics, something like 7% of English-speaking users now run Linux (up from like 2% just five years ago).

The age of Linux is upon us. If you enjoy sucking Micro$oft cock be my guest. I, for one, enjoy being in control of my computer again.

>>109480758
you are a cuck if you unironically use windows, recall spying on you, ads forced into app menu, forced updates and restarts. that's fucking rapey software design. windows is fucking cuck rape cage

>>109480798
did they fix forza horizon 6 on nvidia cards in linshit yet?

>>109480871
No? I'm not saying it's perfect, but honestly I'm not much of a gaymer anymore and to the degree that I am it runs all the games I ever actually play.
I still keep a copy of Windows around on an older SSD for when I want to use my driving wheel (Assetto Corsa in my case), but I only boot it once every few months if that.
For actual daily use, Linux is just as good if not better.

Why don't shills like Linux? It's as corporate as Windows these days, lol. Is it just MS jeets being salty?

>>109480758
Better idea, let's permanently ban every namefag in this board. Starting with you, negroid.

>>109480211
At lest put some effort in your bait

>>109480912
Dear god people.

If any of you (and i know you faggots are) are using linux as your everyday OS, you are fucking stupid. None of you are important enough to warrant needing some super secure thing. One of the reasons it's good for security is because if you want to open a .txt you need to write a whole new fucking program just to open it. If I want to install a god damn internet browser, i dont want to have to spend 4 years learning C## to look at some fucking video on youtube.

It's not compatible with any games, it's nothing special for programming (unless youre looking to practice coding by writing new programs to open your fucking browser). So, what else is there besides the internet? Use something that doesnt take 8 fucking years to learn to use.

If youre using it to run a server, great, I can see that. But you faggots using it as a daily OS are so fucking stupid.

Sure, it looks nice. But even if every time I took a shit, it came out looking like a perfect goddamn sculpture, at the end of the day it's still a pile of shit.

I guess you might be able to impress your friends with your super badass computer knowlege, but you probably dont have any. Thats not a personal thing against any of you, but I really cant imagine having time to socialize when you have to spend 18+ hours a day to learn how to install a fucking program.

But do what you want, if you enjoy having to type SUDO SUDO FUCKMYASS every time you want to check facebook, be my guest.

>>109480905
install gentoo

>>109480211
there are very few pieces of technology that made me more money than Linux.
t. works on foss for a living (on a Linux laptop)

>>109480925
>install Google Linux
no, I don't think I will

>>109480923
Or maybe I just don't like Windows shoving AI bullshit in my face?

>>109480871
>Some company released proprietary shit that forces me to use Windows, therefore it's better
This is the only argument anti-Linux users have. Utterly mindraped by your captors.

>>109480923
>if you want to open a .txt you need to write a whole new fucking program just to open it
>i dont want to have to spend 4 years learning C## to look at some fucking video on youtube
Tell me you've never used Linux without telling me you've used Linux. I've never had an experience remotely close to this. Please describe exactly how you need to learn to program to open a text file or your browser because of security restrictions or this is just bullshit.
>It's not compatible with any games
I turn on the "Linux compatibility" checkbox on my Steam library and I still have 246/246 games listed. This is not from collecting Linux compatible games, this is from using Windows for gaming for years. Linux compatibility in 2026 is just that good, your info is years out of date.
>it's nothing special for programming
It comes with programming tools installed, it comes with packages to install virtually every programming language, many distros have packages that allow you to install multiple versions of different libraries you might need or compile them from scratch with some special flag you might need.

>>109480923
and this guy calls himself "OS MASTER", kek

>Blaming the OS for wasting your life

>>109480923
ah, so you are that one faggot who spams linux hate threads constantly (concealing name ofcourse)

>>109480211
>Irrefutable
explaining why I spend my time using my computer, as opposed to fiddling with it until it becomes usable.

>>109480758
>I come here to discuss technology, particularly computers. Why is such a small minority in this arena practically owning the fucking board?
Would now be the time to tell you DOS started as a cheap clone to UNIX?

Actually, *nix is only a 'minor player' in the desktop space. Anything that actually matters technology wise probably has *nix in there somewhere.

>because I know there is not that fucking many linux users.
So how many are there, precisely?

>STOP SHITTING UP THE BOARD WITH SUB PAR SHIT
Pot.
Kettle.
Black.

>>109480871
>did they fix forza horizon 6 on nvidia cards in linshit yet?
So when someone goes out of their way to make something work only on a limited subsection of configurations, it's the fault of a differing configuration that something doesn't work?

>>109480923
>using linux as your everyday OS, you are fucking stupid.
If I'm so stupid, why does this run so smoothly, so consistently?

>None of you are important enough to warrant needing some super secure thing
Just because you never do anything interesting doesn't mean this applies to everyone. Sure, most people don't need ultra security - and most people don't actually get that from *nix, they just get something reliable. Most of the 'security' obtained is simply not being in winhoes.

> if you want to open a .txt you need to write a whole new fucking program just to open it.
You *can*. This is your choice. Anyone with any sense will fire up an existing text editor or just tap: cat /you\ Are\ Full\ Of\ Shit.txt.

>If I want to install a god damn internet browser, i dont want to have to spend 4 years learning C## to look at some fucking video on youtube.
Again. You *can* do that. If you want. Otherwise you just do what everyone else does an just install the browser you want. Apart from a few niche offerings, they all have native *nix flavours.

>>109480923
Top tier b8 this guy posts his riced Linux VMs in desktop threads

>>109480923
Goddamn it's pasta, baited me award.

>>109480923
>t's not compatible with any games
By which you mean the games have gone out of their way to not be compatible with linux.
And the hundreds of games on this system alone strongly suggest otherwise.

>So, what else is there besides the internet?
What was there before the internet? Your lack of imagination is what limits you, that and your lack of intelligence. Which you have proven yourself with:

>Use something that doesnt take 8 fucking years to learn to use.

If it took you 8 years to learn how to use *nix, then that shortcoming is yours. I've experience of well over 1000 normies ditching XP and pickin' up *nix before the end of the week.

>Sure, it looks nice.
It can do. But the theme the user applies isn't exactly *nix, now, is it?

>at the end of the day it's still a pile of shit.
Because you started with shit.
When you start with something that powers everything serious, almost everywhere, then you end up with a reliable platform.

> guess you might be able to impress your friends with your super badass computer knowlege
only the ones with the longer trails of drool down their chin, like yourself.

>but you probably dont have any.
Oh. How I wish that statement true.

>I really cant imagine having time to socialize when you have to spend 18+ hours a day to learn how to install a fucking program.
Just because *you* have to spend 18 hours learning how to install a program - then spend another 18 hours learning it again when you want to install something else - this doesn't mean everyone else suffers your retardation. Most just install it.

I personally feed a text file into the package manger and after a little delay on downloading that much crap 4000+ packages just seamlessly roll into service.
Fire up 4k installers in winhoes and watch it shit the bed as you spend the next 40 hours dealing with the entire payload one by one.

>>109480211
>i didn't need to buy a new pc to use windows 11
>i installed linux and everything is working
looks free to me OP

>>109480923

> if you enjoy having to type SUDO SUDO FUCKMYASS every time you want to check facebook, be my guest.
Once the system has been configured you should be able to count the amount of times you type 'sudo' a week on one hand. And have no danger of running out of fingers.
Anything else suggests very strongly what your're doing, or how, is very wrong.

>>109480758
>Why is such a small minority in this arena practically owning the fucking board?
I'm sure it helps that having to correct your constant fuckup repeatedly pushes it further from expiring.

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>>109480211
but I get paid to use linux, you in the other hand, a wangblows jeet shill, paid in curry and dirt, we're not the same

>>109480758
Are the linux users somehow preventing you from making threads about your preferred technology?

>>109480758
Did something bad happen recently? Shills are unusually mad.

>>109480758
Someone could post two guys blowing each other and I'd still say this is the gayest post ITT

>>109480211
>Linux is free
Never understood that point. If you buy a prebuilt PC then it already comes with Windows and the upcharge for the OEM licensing is negligible since they buy them in bulk. If you build your own PC then you can buy a OEM license for less then 10$ or even use a activator script if you are that poor. Shilling Linux because it costs no money is like grasping at straws to find anything positive.

>>109480758
based, linux astroturfers BTFO

>>109480211
windows update has wasted more of my time than linux ever has

>>109480211
this quote was always gay af because it tries to break down how useful or worth while something is within a toxic capitalist brain poison mindset

>>109480211
>installs cygwin
>actually wsl
>and gcc
wow good thing im on windows

>>109480923
You did it Reddit!!!

>>109481676
Never understood the point of WSL. Even on winshit I always run software natively, the idea that you need virtual machine (with not the best hypervisor and shit i/o) horrifies me, but I guess wintard couldn't care less.

>>109480211
While you were busy getting bitches and venereal diseases I was studying the Linux kernel. You may be Chad in the real world, but in the computer world I AM the Chad.

Windows user here. Is it true you can't just download and run an executable on Linux?
Are you forced to compile from source or rely on the distribution's packet manager?

>>109481905
>packet manager
>he can't use a package manager
>he can't even spell it
Grim.

>>109481905
there are many ways to run a program. from the package distribution like you said. you compiling from the source like you said, flatpaks that is like an universal store like windows store but for every linux distribution and appimages and linux binaries, Linux binaries usually are how these programs run when they are installed. you can just double click them like an exe file but most linux programs want you to use package manaer or make these binaries yourself. appimages also work like an .exe but they are very rare.

>>109481905
To assume these is genuine questions...

No. It is not true.
If it's an executable not intended for linux you might feature some difficulty, but if it's for the same processor architecture there's usually some sort of translation layer available.

As for the source/package manger ... The package manager exists so you don't have to bother compiling from source, you can ofc do so if you wish.
But many 'popular' projects, for example firefox, independantly publish not just compiled binaries, but install packages intended for specific distributions...
What is provided is dependant on who is providing, and why.

>>109480211
only low IQ lazy bum idiots believe this,
yikes.

go watch some tik-tok or porn you fucking peasant slave.

ew, you smell.

>>109481981
>>109481993
Thanks for the answers and it is a genuine question.
I like that on Windows, programs come with dlls and whatnot so you don't have to worry how to run them.
How common is it for Linux programs to come with their own binaries?
I assume not very common, if the package manager is the intended default.

>>109480758
Last time I checked this year it went up to 10% :)

>>109480211
No, Linux just as a minum iq requirement to use

>>109480923
TOTAL. LINUX. VICTORY.

>>109480211
That's complete bullshit that only retards believe. Linux has improved and it's just as, if not more user friendly than Windows nowadays.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll have to figure out why my graphical session doesn't start anymore since the newest update. I expect it to take all night. who knows where it logs. Certainly not the screen.

>>109482044
Flatpaks will install the necessary files, package manager will just install that program and you might have problems to run it in some distros. Appimages i'm pretty sure are intended to run like an exe where everything is there to be able to run.

>>109480211
Generally true. I daily drove Arch Linux for a few years. When you have an issue that is also obscure or hardware related, goodluck. You have to spend time. Most of things are solved via Arch wiki or forum. It's just a minor incovenience.
The "time wasting" critic is real since Linux is generally used by 14 year old retarded toons who need their hyprland catppuccin neon glowing themes and "rice" their desktop to a "cosy and comfy" theme instead of doing something actually fucking useful.
I was also using hyprland, but I just yanked pre-made dotfiles that "just work" so I can focus on being productive. And yes, hyprland helps very much in that.

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>>109482044
There is a couple competing implementations. I use appimages for a few things, particularly steam because I'm not gonna install 32bit libraries for one fucking program just cause a game [that I wouldn't even pirate] requires them.

>>109482044
>How common is it for Linux programs to come with their own binaries?
Difficult question. Likely due to poor phrasing.

Typically they is all binaries, I'll assume you meant libraries as that's what is in the Dynamic Linked Libraries.

Open source is essentially a toolbox. You need to smack in a nail you pick up a hammer. There's lots of different types of nail, and a few different ways you might want to hit it so there's a few types of hammer sat on the shelf ready to pick up and use. Or you can build your own if you think you can do it better.

Most can't be bothered to build a hammer each time they occur a nail, so just pick the closest one off the shelf. More complex product will be using more tooling. Tooling made by lots of different people.

A example here is VLC, at first glance it's a stand-alone product, but on the back end other open source projects have just been snapped together like lego.

In the case of VLC it'll be bringing things like ffmpeg in with it. Things like firefox etc use the package definititions to grab all the 'non firefox' things it wants and put them in the 'right' places.

But the majority of things in a package manager when you select an entry it'll auto-select anything it leans on - this differs from the winhoes installer by the content is preincluded and static with the installer, as opposed to grabbing fresh from the project at install time. The end user doesn't ever have to know about 'em. Unless they want to.

>>109482053
d'pends where you get your stats...
Take them all with a grain of salt.

>>109482082
>I expect it to take all night. who knows where it logs.
You have tried /var/log
???

Tho you may be 'better' served with: journalctl -xe
The -e starts it at the bottom of the jounal, and the -x opens more explaination.
You can use -b -1 to view the previous boot's logs.
-p err might be of use.
As can -g "string" to grep for a string.

>>109480211
>Install Linux
>It just works
Anybody who says Linux is a waste of time is a gorilla nigger retard.

>>109480211
Most peoples time has no value either way so that argument is moot.

>>109482491
/thread

>>109480211
>use LLM
>paste commands into terminal
>profit

>>109482672
>use LLM
>you are literally selling your soul to satan just because you are too retarded to read the arch-wiki
>in the end lose

>>109480211
obsessed and raped

>>109483024
>you are literally selling your soul to satan just because you are too retarded to read the arch-wiki
source?

>>109480211
>$12/hr wagie thinks he's too good for linux
lol

>>109480211
That’s winblows.

>>109482467
The guy who said this is an Asian incel who got fired from his big tech job and then his hot big titty Japanese wife left him and flew back to Japan with their baby, he's a lolcow like Debito-kun.

>>109480923
>tripfag posts wall of text proving how much of a faggot he is.
Didn't read.
Don't care.
Kill yourself you worthless nigger.

>>109483557
it was an old copypasta and nu-/g/ lapped it up and fell for the bait

>>109480758
10% mother fucker. Suckle my ballsack.

>>109483433
What’s funny is the dude she’s with in Japan is black. I shit ye the fuck not.

>>109480923
this, but unironically

>>>109484399 same nigger, creating the same spam. Just get tf out of my board nigger

>>109480211
>Don't need to watch a 50 minute Jeet Youtube tutorial for a GUI, just copy and paste from a guide or even just outright ask AI sloppa what commands to use in CLI. Everything works in the CLI, you don't need to go to some GUIslop like you would in Windows.
>Easy to automate tasks that you do constantly, because everything can often be CLI, so you don't need to do everything manually every time
>Don't need to come up with some way to support Linux utilities and workflow like Cygwin, WSL2, etc. that requires you to learn Linux anyway
>Don't need to work around decades of spaghetti code piled on top of NT or Apple's stupid decisions, this is a modern OS that is designed to be used efficiently and competently, rather than one that must be fought
Linux is for people whose time has value.

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Linux is free only for the man who's time is spent on things he enjoys, and which benefit himself, instead of breaking to the whims of others.

You're gonna spend 10% of your life browsing Arch Wiki

HAHAHA

I guess it's a good occupation for some losers to forget about their real life loser image

>>109480265
It didn't just werk

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6a75cca4e2148191b075c6de73dec5d7

>>109480211
>set up once
>run forever

i really have no idea wtf youre on about
you must be retarded

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>>109487589
cont.
so disturbingly retarded i even forgot picrel

>>109480758
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.

>>109480211
So long as I'm having fun.

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who says hackers can't code

>>109480211
With AI this is not true anymore just tell it to config anything you want

>>109480871
Did they fix windows yet? Theyve been saying they'll make not shit for a while now, but I don't know because I haven't needed to touch my windows Install since I switched.

>>109483893
Nobody actually read it, you're just that repulsive.

>>109480211
yes and it's true for 100% of the world population.
everything is worthless and has no value, do whatever the fuck you want without caring about how other people waste their time, focus on wasting yours instead.
>inb4 my life has meaning ree
wrong, you're as worthless as the others

>>109480211
The argument is no longer that it's free, it's that it's better, and there really isn't anything left to argue there either.

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>>109490113
I, uh, pasted it into ChatGPT and asked for a summary

>>109480211
Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. are literally good to go and require no fidgeting
On a desktop your choices are Linux (made by a Finn) or Windows (made by India). The choice is obvious

>>109480758
>I come here to discuss technology
you come here to act a fool

>>109480211
That's bizarre. I feel like I waste less time fighting the OS ever since switching to Linux.

>>109480211
Opensource is promoted by kikes xploiting dumb nerds.