What is the point of using Linux as a personal computer?
>>56511829
what is the point of this thread, or your life?
>>56511829
What is the point of anime?
Linux ain't no computer?
If you cant find a reason go back to wingblows
>>56511829
Freedom
>>56511829
It's almost the definition of a true personal computer. You can set it up however the hell you want, to be as comfy as you want for *you* personally. It's frustratingly difficult to do that in Windows.
>>56511829
>a kernel
>as a personal computer
>>56511829
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.
I installed linux on my GNU/computer.
No regrets.