What's a linux distro for complete retards?

Ubuntu

MacOS

Gentoo

>>60440540
Go on libgen.io and get a linux book, then pick any distro. Linux Unleashed second edition is good

>>60440540
>Ubuntu

Ubuntu definitively

>>60440540
Well, if by retards you mean an user-oriented distro i guess ubuntu is very good.

jewbuntu

>>60440559
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>>60440540
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.

>>60440540
Devuan

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>>60440559
these aren't no linux distros

>>60441917
Anyone else eventually stop reading after "I'd like to interject-"?

>>60440540
Elementary OS (by far the smallest OS and neatest)
Ubuntu
Linux Mint
Kubuntu

>>60441940
blasphemer

>>60441940
I can't remember the last time I actually read the entire thing, tbqh, I don't think i've EVER read the entire thing, nor do I intend to.

Anything with systemd

>>60441917
The autistic copypasta that never dies.

>>60441940
If there's a linux thread, I just automatically scroll past any post accompanied by a stallman pic.

>>60441940
I always read the whole thing so I can remember it and repeat in real life when needed.

>>60440540
https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/ this would suit your needs, OP.

>>60442414
>for children
kek

>>60440562
MacOS

ubuntu
arch
macos

>>60440540
Windows

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>>60440562
>MacOS

???

>>60440540
>What's a linux distro for complete retards?
All of them.

>>60441936
so they are?

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>>60440540
anything with gnome.

>>60444772
Gnu/linux

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>>60443653
Underrated post

Solus

>>60444810
Is for retards and not the devs are retards.

>>60444909
I tought that for a distro to call itself "GNU/Linux" they had to distribute 100% with only GPL compatible software

>>60446722
Nah, non-FLOSS distros still have GNU coreutils most of the time.

>>60440540
Hannah Montana Linux.

There's also a Justin Bieber one, in case you're gay.

>>60440540
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>>60441936
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>>60443653
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.

Android

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>>60441917
No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.

Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.

One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?

(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.

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Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.

You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.

>>60440540
Arch

>>60440540
Even retards know by now that most dinosaurs had feathers.

>>60447636

Last, I'd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD?

If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this:

Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag.

Thanks for listening.

>>60447641
THIS

ElementaryOS, Chalet OS, Ubuntu, Mint

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Most people refer to Linux mint for beginners

>>60447648
Thanks for that. I really have been wanting to hear a more articulated counter argument to the GNU/Linux meme.

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>>60440540
None

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>>60443653

>>60440540
arch

>>60442277
I got trolled by it when I first switched to /g/ argued with a guy for too long. Saw it on another thread and realized it was a pasta.

Linux for niggers, or hannah Montana linux, or just install gentoo

>>60448935
it's actually just another copypasta used in response to the gnu/linux one.

>>60440540
Kali