>start browsing /g/ to shitpost about why Google sucks
>Don't know anything about tech so start googling all the commonly discussed topics
>eventually become pessimistic about microsoft
>friends says he will help me set up linux
>now I want to buy a thinkpad with an i5 processor
why did you do this to me /g/
>>58141144
kek
>not lurking more
>not buying a thinkpad before before you complain on the internet
>not being able to install a different operating system before posting on /g/
>>58141144
Nexst step is indtalling GNU/Gentoo linux-libre.
Why is that bad? Thinkpads are good and so is linux.
Maybe you'll learn some programming too and that's never a bad thing.
Fuck you for coming here to only shit up the place. I have so many goddamn filters because of faggots like you. I hate neo-/g/ so damn much
>>58141144
You'll thank us later.
>>58141144
>>58142636
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.
Before /g/
>Try to buy unrelevant shitty laptop
After /g/
>get T420
>bought too much Chink shit
Going down the Linux route is a good idea but don't fall for the Chinkpad meme.