Okay, please tell me What the fuck is so great about Linux?

its whatever you want it to be... it really can be

>>58843112
Except run software that matters.

>>58843112
it just seems like everyone on this board is constantly trying to justify downloading it
seems like its good for a few specific things and really shitty at many things

>>58843016
It costs nothing, it's easy to use if you have an IQ over 60, and it doesn't watch you fap. Respects your freedumbs out of the box, unlike wangblows that requires you to run questionable tools made by chinks. You also have fat neckbeards as tech support, which is a huge step up from street shitters.

>>58843175
I've been using it for nearly 10 years as a desktop OS. I now use windows 10. Let me tell you something, the OS is fucking great, but it doesn't have any software people need.

In majority at least. Sure if you only need a spergstation for 4chan it's enough.

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>>58843016
Here, I'll list a few easily google-able reasons:

1. I can run my own web server for not only free, but easily, using community-supported guides and code, tweaked to my liking. I can do anything from a Mail server to Nextcloud to just running a remote torrent client. How about that?

2. I have the added security of knowing that free, open source programs won't install horrible shit on my computer that I don't want, rather than just doing what they're designed to do by the basement dwelling faggot that wrote them. How about that?

3. I can tailor my desktop experience not only by the weight of the demands of my system, but also aesthetically and functionally. How about that?

4. Go fuck youself. How about that?

>>58843016
>waa spoonfeed me, i'm an incompetent nu-male who can't make his own mind.

>>58843016

As a user operating system it is not a good use of your time to learn it.

As a server operating system, it is absolutely fucking mandatory if your server is web facing or extremely large-scale. Running Windows for that purpose is both prohibitively expensive and unnecessarily risky.

If you want to make a metric fuckton of money administering servers like that, it is worth learning to use Linux as your personal OS.

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>>58843016
dont like how something works? rewrite it.

bet you can't do that on windows, microdick.

>>58843016

distributions are made 100% with the user in mind

they don't try to gank all of your data and use your internet connection to mine buttcoins and seed cuck porn in the middle of the night like Microcuck Wangblows does

It's more unixlike than Windows, but not as unixlike as OpenBSD.

>>58843112
>its whatever you want it to be... it really can be
c-can it be my ai gf?

>>58843016
>sell me on Linux

No.

Try it out and if you like it, then use it.

If you don't like it, then go back to whatever you prefer.

1. Installing via packages is way easier and more convenient than individual installers for everything.

2. Don't have to reboot when updating software.

3. If something breaks or isn't working, you can fix it and get things running again. In Windows you often have to reboot.

>>58843016
Control.

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>>58843016
>What the fuck is so great about Linux?- 15 posts and 2 image replies shown.
It's great when you don't have a job or don't go to school and you need something to do. it gives you a sense of accomplishment when you spend few hours trying to fix something that broke for no reason whatsoever.

>>58843496
>fat neckbeards as tech support
kek

>>58843016
Speed
Efficiency
Flexibility
Control

With Linux you can have an operating system that does exactly what you want it to do and nothing else.

And it's free.

>>58845466
Your pic is Arch critical, not Linux critical.

If you don't know by now, in light of everything that has happened with W10, and how Apple treats their customers, then Linux probably isn't for you.

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>>58843016
I think the biggest strength is freedom to do what you want and to not have your data sold.

Secondarily, but very importantly, there are very usable linux-based operating systems and linux native applications for the vast majority of common tasks one might want to do with a computer.

>>58845525
it applies to all of the distros. you'll find something that broke and then your next 2hrs are gone.

Nothing

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>>58845466
>thinks things don't break in other operating systems.
I run Ubuntu and things break very seldom.

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>>58845466
Classic Microsoft propaganda.
Ironically, most NEETs in the world use Windows while almost all Linux installs belong to professional environment such as web servers, system admins, super computers, main frames, space stations etc.

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>>58845574
>he's comparing upgrades to shit breaking

>>58845609
Wow, you are trying so hard there

>>58845568
I find with Linux, if things break it's at the beginning. Once you fix them, it's pretty smooth sailing on a stable distro.

With Windows, everything works at the start, then a year or two later (it's become worse with W10) things start to break. Only in that case, you have to reinstall the whole fucking thing.

You get to tell people you use Linux.

>>58843016
I use Linux on my main desktop workstation. I used to use Windows, but Windows has been shit for a long time.

Linux is free, and I can control how it behaves, when it updates, etcetera. Hell, I can control everything about it. And since I don't play PC games and everything I do for work can be done in a browser, Linux is perfect for me.

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>>58843016

>>58843016
the only time a linux program has ever crashed is when I'm running video games in Wine

it takes fucking windows to break Linux

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>>58845634
>trying hard
I'm not the one comparing upgrades that add functionality to actually trying to fix broken shit. You got triggered, son.

>>58845466
Is Slackware a Timesink OS?

>>58843175
This is what it's like to have so little social life that you have countless hours of free time with nothing useful to do

>>58844391
sure, issue:

# emerge gf
# apt-get install gf
# pacman -S gf

>>58845466
Arch is almost a hobby distro, where you install it because you expect shit to go wrong and you enjoy fixing it. The common Linux distros like Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora, etc are pretty functional

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>>58843016

Only the kernel. The rest is a pure shit!

>>58845794
You do realize some extremely butthurt windows fanboy got insecure and wrote all that, do you?

Just look at the amount of strawman, I wonder why windows promoters get so insecure like that

>>58843016
poorfags who cant afford windows

>>58845851
Windows 10 comes pre installed, idiot

>>58843016
it's ok if you can't afford Windows, but that doesn't make it actually free since you have to spend all your time fixing things and time is money

>>58845862
Windows just doesn't work

>>58845858
>pre-built PC
This is what /g/ has become.

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>>58845910
True current /g/ is pathetic

Linux is a meme.

It's still lacking a lot of support before I can fully switch
MacOS has the support I need but a lot more annoying as an OS and I don't want to support apple

>>58844325
>implying compatibility fixing is worth anyone's time
Suck my cock

>long time winfag
>muh vidya!
>switch to ubuntu on laptop
>literally just works
>rarely need to restart computer... uptimes of 7+ days
>didn't turn off laptop for 2 months at one point
>sudo apt-get update/upgrade every now and then
>addiction to vidya ends
>start reading, lifting
>got a gf
>finally went back to school
>increased productivity of ubuntu and lack of gaming = highest grades I've ever gotten in school
>now making 75k/year

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>>58848375
Are you legitimately implying windows or any OS is free of compatibility issues?

>>58843016
easy to use, fast, free, easy to fix/maintain/update, package manager makes it easy to add and remove software cleanly, lots of choices as far and look and feel go, etc

basically, it's more comfortable

it's not for everyone though, you get the most out of it if you're willing to learn about how it all works

>>58843016
Nothing.
The code is shit. Community is shit. Ideas behind it are shit, balkanized as shit.

>>58843016
The vast majority of the internet uses linux. Facebook, Google, Amazon, all pretty much linux.

So if you want a job at these companies learn linux.

>>58843016
You have total control over your computer.