Ask a brilliant linux guru anything about linux

is linux unix?

Can I really install gentoo?

when r they're gaems coimg out on linix?

>>57998346
>>57998358
NO Linux is not unix
and gentoo is impossible to install unless you are
as fat as richard stallman

>>57998376
Linux is shit and cant really handle games

>>57998358
He's talking about the kernel

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>>57998377
>and gentoo is impossible to install unless you are as fat as richard stallman
This guy disagrees

>>57998317
When will Linux stop being shit on desktops?

>>57998317
Are there some nice kernel features that aren't usually enabled on desktop distributions?

Recently I found about zram and it seems weird that it isn't enabled on desktop distributions by default.

Linux? Isn't that Charlie browns friend who played piano

>>57998400
Where's Scooby

>>57998388
I think you're more retarded than the anon you responded to

>>57998551
>Where's Scooby
THE GOVERMENT

>>57998317
How many task swaps per second can linux handle?

>>57998317
why is xorg still a thing

sure, actual tech sup question

when im trying to install lubuntu im getting an error when it does full disk encryption, the first one was swapdisk error so i ran sudo swapoff -a but then the error changed to a generic error i think. I had the disk previously encrypted with xubuntu so i ran gparted before hand.

still cant get it encrypted. is their a manual way to set up encryption or a way to fix this because it seems to be a documenter glitch in the installer since 2007 i think

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>>57998317
>linux guru
>linux

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.

What is the best distro and why is it Slackware?

What is your opinion on the GNU operating system?

>>57999582
You mean Emacs?