When did this board become /v/ 2.0?

>>60383508
about 5 years ago when the number of desktop threads overshadowed the number of software and hardware threads

>>60383508
When we allowed bst

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>>60383508
When AMD brought sexy back.

>MUH GAYMERS AMIRITE? WE LINUX USERS ARE SO ABOVE THESE NON LINUX KEKS

this is some elitist circlejerk to make your pathetic lives seem less pathetic
go compile your lives together, neckbeard fucks

>>60383508
Reddit invasion happened apparently

>>60383508
newfag

>>60383508
back in the days, we told people who violated the sticky to fuck off

then some kind people joined, who helped aynway
this was a bad move, because it invited even more stupid question threads, which made windows users feel safe at /g/ and made them stay

>>60383720
damn windows is disgusting

>>60383570
>>60383519
This. These threads are fucking cancer and should be banned

>complaining about le /v/ 2.0
>when this board is an extension of /lgbt/ and /a/

>>60383508

Because Windowsfags and Macfags are nothing but retarded consumerist shits.

>>60383508
This board has always been primarily Windows users. We just don't talk about it since it's the default and it just works.
Linux users are the vegans of computing. Everybody has to hear how you use Linux and how everybody who doesn't are MURDERERS! You never shut up about it. That doesn't make you the majority, just noisy about your ridiculous beliefs.

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>>60384863
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.

>>60384863
Fat fuck detected

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>>60384863

>>60383508
yesterday

>>60384863
>We

>>60383508
Non-ironic answer; 2009.

>>60383508
when /tv/ became /b/ 2.0
circa 2014.

>>60383508
From day one has this board been /v/ 2.0 don't even deny it.

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>>60383508
GPU wars, GPU shitposting, crying wokajs (just like /v/ has hurr durr), giving a shit about FPS when talking about CPUs, basically.

Have some ancient pre-chans internets humor.

>>60384693
At least those 2 have natural explanations. Videogames have like 4 different boards already and yet they STILL find they way here.

Videogames are overtaking this whole god danm forum.

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>>60383570
THIS

It's not even /v/ directly that is the problem, but retarded consumerism in general

General attract tons of boring normalfags

>>60386105
I hate /mkg/ the most even tho I like mechanical keyboards.
They're basically /fa/

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>>60385246
/g/ has been pc gaming and poorfags that can't even afford an os since the good ol' days. People just want to wax lament and pretend it was ever any different


poverty line
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>>60383570
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>>60385929
grapes.jpg

>>60385687
What the fuck do you expect? You didn't REALLY think most of /g/ buys $300+ CPU's/GPU's just to shitpost, right? The fact I see more of /g/ put more effort into whining about video games than they did over things in the past to rightly-whine about (doge, smoking threads, etc.) will continue to ensure that people who care about posting quality will ignore anyone that worries about game discussion being the TRUE cancer killing /g/

I know this, because when I see people examples of video game-centric tech discussion killing /g/, they refer to threads along the lines of "HAY WAT GAMING KEYBOARD IS GOOD???? GUYS??? MODS???" that are just shitpost magnets for approx. 20-30 mins. before they disappear entirely, i.e. shit that you'll never notice

BUT, there's also a faction that insists people in a dedicated GPU/CPU discussion thread who talk about performance relative to gaming power are just as bad as the first type of person, which cements the idea that the people complaining about this hypothetical /v/ invasion are just a bunch of bitchmade middle-aged code fucks that can't handle the notion of a PC being a multi-use platform. The shitposting you see in GPU/CPU threads also tends to be less /v/-grade bantz, and more of the standard brand-warrning that's existed in /g/ ever since the dawn of Windows vs. Linux brand-warring, it only has a different name

Unless anyone can formulate a better argument for this /v/ takeover that no one is capable of giving real evidence towards (especially when the reasons involve posting quality that's exactly the same if you switch "video games" with "computer thing"), you will continue to be that loud and noisy poster yelling "VIDEO GAAAAAAAAAAAAAMES" towards an uncaring god

>>60385687
>At least those 2 have natural explanations
Those natural explanations are guaranteed to be just as natural (or LESS natural) than the relation of games to hardware

>>60383508

I mostly browse /v/, and as I see it, /g/ has always been kinda /v/ 2.0, if only because of obnoxious PCfags and mustard race idiots, which /v/ generally hates.

I've seen countless off-topic threads on /v/ about builds, PC temps, keyboards, battle stations, and other non-vidya crap that belongs on /g/ instead.

Or sometimes we'll be having a polite, cordial vidya discussion, but then a PCfag comes in to shit up the talk with his obnoxious mustard race nonsense, like pining over graphics and specs instead of actual gameplay quality, or PC port begging.

I've redirected PCkids to /g/ many, many times.

In short, it goes both ways. Many boards overlap, in good and bad ways.

>>60386525
I use a ryzen 7 1800X, an Rx 580 you fucking idiot gamer NEET

>>60386930
Sounds like you overspent for your non-gaming box.

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60386525
Typical cancer cell brought to you by /v/ refugees

>>60386966
The Video card is quite cheap, but the processor is useful for me

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>>60383508
Hur dur i hate games see speccy thread gtx 1070 gtx 1080 and dont give me that bull shit gpus are for more then just gaymen

>>60384930
>Imagine being at computers

>>60386994
Speccy threads are /v/ too, the same people who post in /bst/

>>60383570
This among other things. Everyone who isn't a programmer or sysadmin should be banned, ideally. Nowadays /g/ is being ruined by people who don't actually know anything about technology, and just come here for brainless discussion of consumer electronics and gaymer toys.

When there were more people regularly browsing the board who couldn't program computers than those who could in at least two languages.

So basically, /g/ has always been /v/ for people who pretended to know tech.

All the people who actually write code to any significant extent are off doing their jobs.

>>60383688
B-but anon, we ARE better than you. This is just a fact, don't fight it. With each post you shit on Linux users, you prove us right.

>>60387568
But that's not true. It's just a delusion that you share with your buddies herr

>>60383508
When Clover defaulted to /g/

>>60383519
>>60383570
f&spbp

All the old guys left to /tech/ or dropped imageboards altogether for hacker news or reddit.

>>60384930
>Imagine being at computers
Gets me every time.

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>>60386930
spends $500 to run his toy vms, doesn't even utilize all 16 threads. Gets mad on 4chinz, has 6 chinz
>>60386525

>>60386967
typical thinkpad gentooman, posts only windows and apple h8 (can't afford)
you guys have been using the same pics and the same arguments for 5 years, the same toxic broken record bitching, the same strawmen, everything

>>60383688
Damn right we're better. Now if you'll excuse me I have to spend the rest of the afternoon getting this printer driver to work

>>60384883
Fuck off. Linux can work perfectly fine without corelibs it's just not viable.