Name a single reason, besides autism, why would anyone use Linux.

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>>61074577
Why is she so cute?

iq greater than 120

>>61074714
He said besides being smart.

Needing to use a computer for more than playing video games.

>>61074577
it's better in every way. I installed Arch on all of my PCs and never looked back.

>>61074577
Being competent enough to use a computer without having your hand held the entire time.

>>61074577
Muh freedums

its better than windows

>>61074577
POO

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>>61074803
BEE

>>61074577
Faster IPC, open source kernel and software, legit package managers, larger variety of compilers and editors, selectable/optional GUI. Why aren't you using Linux, OP? Games not accessible? Please don't throw a low effort response like "I have a life/job/brain" or "I'm not autistic/down/retarded" I unironically want to know why you stick to Windows when there is clearly a superior way to use your computer.

>>61074577
it respects your freedom

cool-retro-term

I consider myself an enthusiast and I use an operating system catered to my needs.

If it's too hard to understand, let me use an analogy.
A car enthusiast doesn't drive a toyota yaris. Yeah it works for 99% of your car needs, but noone cares. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise and convince your friends it's still a bland shitbox for car-illiterate people aka women.

>>61074577
Probably so NSA can't look at all my pronz

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>>61074914
If it's still a concept too hard to grasp, let me express the idea with an easy to digest infographic.

celibacy

>>61074873
>I unironically want to know why you stick to Windows when there is clearly a superior way to use your computer.
Too lazy to learn all this Linux shit.

I have a video tutorial on learning Linux, to get certified or something. My bro hooked me up with it. It is hours long. Hours of video, listening to some nerd talk about how to use Linux's ancient command-line bullshit

I would sooner eat glass.

>>61074577
To piss off /v/ menchildren and street shitters

>>61074742
This is really what it all comes down to. If not for games, windows wouldn't have near the market share it currently has

>>61074929
old, loud, gas hungry and expensive to maintain piece of shit VS Modern, efficient and cheap to maintain.
Hmmmmmmmmmm
lincucks didn't think this one through.

>>61074985
yeah no one is going to think youre cool for using linux

>>61074983
This is no one's fault except Linux devs for not making their OS game friendly

>>61074577
I'm a linux server admin. So kinda need to understand it

>>61074983
That's not true, microsoft's aggressive and monopolistic tactics in the early 2000's are why windows is a thing now.

There used to be major linux support at the heardware level until microsoft started making it part of their OEM arrangement to only support Windows.

>>61075007
>t. /v/ in mount stupid

>>61074985
You don't know what's under that hood; you're just making assumptions. For all you know, it could be converted to electric. It's actually a pretty good analogy, because a unix-like environment is dependent on the user. If you're not knowledgeable and you haven't any skills, you're gonna have a shitbox. If you know your shit and have the skills, it can be whatever you want it to be.

>>61074577
injection drivers to hack wep, wpa and wps networks.
custom desktop environment.
i dont have to pay anything.
no malware out of the box, no need for antivirus and shit.
package managers.
kill command actually kills.
no useless process on background

>>61074577
So you can shitpost about it on /g/.

>>61074983
>retards think that gamers are the majority.
PC gamers are a drop in the bucket, they just have a very loud mouths and like to hang around in the same Taiwanese image boards as you.

Because everyone knew back in the day that Windows sucks. Did people forget that ot something?

>>61075007
OpenGL is supported by most major game engines, and well known game developers like John Carmack have said they like it better than DirectX. The only "fault" that linux has is that no company wants to support linux because "muh market share".

>>61075015
I was assuming we were talking about home users and enthusiasts, but you're correct. I made a poor assumption.

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>>61074985
>old, loud, gas hungry
That's what makes it fun.
>expensive to maintain piece
Imports are notiously expensive in maintenance because of the price of spares, and you can fix old iron with a welder and a grinder most of the fucking time.

See, you're as much clueless on operating systems as you are on cars. You're the one who didn't think it through.

>>61075057
I'm going to correct you here: European imports are expensive to maintain (being a euro car guy, I know this first hand). Japanese and Korean imports are very cheap to maintain.

>>61075057
Shut the fuck up, you clearly don't know jack shit.
Toyota is one of the cheapest to maintain car brands out there. They have tons of manufacturing facilities all over the world and 6 of them are in the states.

>>61075076
Well it's the other way around in Euroland. Gookshit may be cheap, but spares will cost you a fortune, american imports are a lot cheaper to run long-term.

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>>61075102
>being american

>>61075044
yes, gamers are like 1%, that's why companies are starting to invest similar amounts to how much is invested in movies into games, they love wasting money

>>61075107
>gook spares cost a fortune
>americans are cheaper in the long run
Straight up factually wrong.

>>61075007
This is autism

>>61075152
whatever you say cheng

>>61075107
europeans actually maintain their shit which is why its so cheap there burgers are the laziest fucks in the world but dont act like it because they love being bootlicking stupid fucks getting assreamed for being tricked into being believing that being workaholics is the only way to live and if you dont you get fed to someone that accepts that thinking

>>61075172
Done down with the obscenities buddy, we're not 12 and you don't have to impress anyone

>>61074577
Media/file server

>>61075189
go fuck yourself you dick licking shitbag

>>61075134
Wtf are you even trying to say here?
Are you unironcially trying to argue that PC gaming is the biggest reason why linux isn't popular among normies?

If Linux is so great for non-gaming tasks then why does every business pay through the nose for Windows and Microsoft's server software? If Linux is better why don't they use that?

Also kek at all the butthurt linuxfags projecting ITT

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>>61075335
Nice counter argument you got there, bud. Loonix surely is the superior way.

>>61075254
pajeet windows shill go

>>61074577
FREEDOM

>>61075044
-tech illiterate parents are forced by their children to buy them windows machines for gayms.
-gaming is a profitable market overall.
-you grow up on windows BECAUSE of games, because what else would male kids do? And then, all you know as a grown up is windows so you stick to it cause you're too lazy or impatient to learn a different OS.
-males are dominant in relationships so women will use whatever their men use, which is windows. They overall don't care. For example, my gf uses GNU.

Yeah, gamers are in minority but they're the relevant minority (kids). What you grow up using is in most cases what you'll continue to use.

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>>61075403
>arguing with a sub-human
Learn to use a toilet like humans do.

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It werks®

>>61074577
Easy as fuck, too bad u don't have the balls to try it urself

>>61075055
Fuck off, pajeet.

I wanted to use Linux. The whole idea appealed to me. Not having to pirate Windows and give up my privacy and all that.

Every distro requires complicated commands that most of us won't fuck with. Life doesn't have to be that hard. If the whole Linux dev communtiy actually got together on something they could probably dethrone Windows. It should've happened by now but they're too busy being elitists. They're waiting for Linux to be worth something to all us plebs, but they're unwilling to "dumb" it down. I'm hoping some distro becomes usable before 7 support ends, but I'm not holding my breath.

>>61075651
Your technological illiteracy doesn't entitle you to demand others to work in a certain way.

>>61075717
This is the attitude I'm talking about. Enjoy your crippled OS and unfounded sense of superiority.

>>61075651
It's very dumbed down already, unless you have a 2 digit IQ. For those people Android and ChromeOS for desktop exist.

>>61075750
>getting mad because you can't learn a new thing and blame others instead
Are you a negro?

>>61075776
Not a negro. I just don't have the spare time you obviously enjoy.

>>61075651
>The whole idea appealed to me.
You got the wrong idea.
Your idea was "Windows but one I don't have to pay for". In reality it never was and never will be "windows you don't have to pay for"

>>61075651
There's android and chromeos, and this is just the google example.

>>61075807
Alright. Then what do I have to pay for if I use Linux?

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1/2

>>61074577
comfortable for programming

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>>61075805
3 digit IQ people need a week at most to be comfortable with Linux, sadly this doesn't apply to the lesser individuals.
After all this time, the time wasted fixing Linux is quite a lot less than the time needed to maintain a Windows installation, plus the whole Windows 10 fiasco with the forced updates/restarts.
So you aren't a nigger, spic maybe?
I have an advice, stop blaming your ineptitude on others, if you don't know something it's YOUR fault.

>>61074602
Did they fix her up a bit

>>61074904
Can't u fucking read?

>>61075907
Completely inadequate response. Your pet OS will never be user friendly because of people just like you.

Sit back and watch the usage share go nowhere while you act like the cringy cartoon you've come to be.

>>61075986
>strawmen followed by an ad hominem
I present to you, the Untermensch

Because I need to set up a remote developer station, thay can act as my server and virtual machine as I sit on a beach getting a hand job from a Dominican hooker while snorting a line of coke off her friends double Ds who just brought me my fourth mai tai for optimal coding skill.

>>61075907
>>61076019
same dickless fag.

>Not running a lightweight Linux distro on your laptop for max performance and stealing your neighbors WiFi passwords.

Why even post on /g/?

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>>61076066
>doesn't know /g/ became /v/'s tech support and designated shilling board

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Why do people pretend being dumbed down to the point where your tech illiterate grandmother is capable of using is somehow the end goal of all software?

I mean come the fuck on, majority of people on the planet get confused, scared and blame viruses when you place their browser shortcut in a different corned of the desktop, and we're talking about people with 10+ years of experience in actually sitting in front of a windows computer.

>>61076083
>memeing with macros
>claiming intelligence
Please move on.

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>>61076127
>being this mad

>>61074737
Autism =/= Smart

>>61074983
>he thinks over 10% of Windows market share is composed by gamers
You need to get out more often

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>>61075931
Yeah, one of the patches made her more attractive.

>>61076144
>>61076144
Congrats on you use of the basic chantard logic package. You are officially worth no one's time.

Because unless you need something that's Windows exclusive or just works better on Windows, then you gain absolutely nothing by using Windows. In fact you get worse performance, have to pay $100 for a license AND get spied on to boot.

For basic computing Windows doesn't really add anything of value for the average user. They'd be just as well off using Ubuntu or Fedora or whatever flavor you like.

>>61076199
>still no arguments
AHAHAHAHAAHAHA, you are just basically the gibs me dat of the tech world with your sick entitlement, no one owes you shit.
Basically what >>61076125 said.

>>61075986
>Your pet OS will never be user friendly
But it is. We simply have different preferences.Most Linux users don't want a Windows-like experience. I mainly use Linux, but I do have two other computers with Windows 10 and MacOS. I really see no benefit to having the other two systems around though. Think about it, MacOS has Brew, Windows 10 has that Ubuntu bullshit. Why are they implementing Linux features? It's because Linux is great. Why not take advantage of what it has to offer?

>>61074577
Because its easier to use than Windows and doesn't cuck your hardware.

>>61076298
The untermensch wasn't complaining about features, he was literally saying Loonix too hard, keep us broda down.
It's only another case of entitlement trying to blame his own shortcomings on others, it's like a kid saying math sucks because it's too hard and expecting to be taken seriously.

>>61076382
Math is hard though so it isn't a good comparison, Linux is easy.

Its more like someone complaining that they can't work a coffee machine because they are too lazy to read the instructions.

>>61076415
>Math is hard
No it isn't.

>>61076415
True that, the problem is they get mad when called out on their stupidity and blame the coffee machine manufacturer.

>>61074577
>have arch on work laptop
>laptop dies
>buy new laptop
>copy backupimage of system onto new laptop
it just werkz (tm)

>>61076436
Anything beyond basic algebra is objectively abstract enough to require regular practice to use, Linux concepts and programs make far more sense, a bootloader is easy to understand, calculating the area exposed to air of a floating log is not.

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>>61074742
Like what?

> Music production/audio editing?
Nope
>Video production/editing?
Nope
>Photo editing?
Nope (GIMP.. kek)
>CAD?
Nope, not really
>Desktop publishing?
Not so great either

And for the sake of argument lets just say your free office packages can compete.

>Programming?
Yeah it's ok, but for some reason all the good software is on all the other systems... so all the good programmers don't seem interested for some reason..

Let's face it. Besides programming and gaming you don't even know why people would even use a computer. This says more about the average linux user than normal people. All you do yourself is browse, write some shitty code if you actually know how, and desperately try to get some games to work through Wine.

>>61076125
Why do you pretend tech illiterate grandmother can't use Linux? My does, people don't use Linux because faggots like you make them believe you need to be pro computa haccker to use it, if dumbing down will destroy your inflated ego I'm all for it.

>>61076522
Literally nobody does those things.

>Web Browsing?
Yep.
>Video watching?
Yep.
>Games?
Yep.

>>61074577
antisemitism

>>61076540
Because that's what you need to tell yourself. As users of the eternal 1% OS.

>>61076176
you've obviously never heard of the term savant

>>61076565
Oh yeah, I forgot about the vocal liberal arts faggots on /g/, they represent the 99% of the users, right?

>>61076540
If that's all someone does than he'll have an android phone and a playstation and be done with it.

>>61076415
>they are too lazy to read the instructions.
This is a close analogy, but, it's still not completely true. It seems to me that the real issue lies in the ridiculous idea that a person who is new to Linux, needs to learn all of the terminal commands and tools. So, to expand upon your analogy, I would say this : Its more like someone complaining that they can't work a coffee machine because they are too lazy to read the instructions because they think it would require them to understand Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, as well as Physics. It's simply not true. Correct?

>>61076203
This is true, but window's tech support also helps feed many poor Indian families, so when you use windows and call for windows tech support it's kinda like being charitable

>>61076590
Alright, on /g/ you may have a small majority, I'll give you that. Although I kinda believe it's more like a loud minority.

>>61074577
POSIX

>>61076597
Yeah pretty much.

They would see the word partition in reference to disk space and their eyes would just fucking glaze over.

I think its more a lack of interest than anything else, they just aren't curious and don't care.

>>61074577
I don't use Linux on my desktop but I think the main reason is:
>it's free (as in poorfags don't have to spend money on their OS)

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>>61076565
for any entity focused on production and not wasting time playing video games the linux market share far outweighs any other OS

>>61074946
Just Download VirtualBox

Download Ubuntu Image

Google "how to install Ubuntu in VirtualBox" click on some normie stuff like *geek*.com

Start using it for porn

???

Profit

>>61074577
to customize and optimize for your use case.

>>61076631
>installing an OS in a VM
Why?

>>61076597
Its more like someone complaining that they can't work a coffee machine because they are too lazy to read the instructions because they think it would require them to understand Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, as well as Physics.

no, not quite.

The first half of your statement is accurate about reading instructions, but need no knowledge of engineering or physics to understand it.

You seriously just need to have a HS or college level reading comprehension skills and your good to go (which sadly many people dont seem to have)

>>61076522
Linux does most of those things perfectly fine. You're simply not aware of what to use or how. Linux being 1% has alot to do with information about stuff like this not being widespread. I've been using Linux for years and find about things I never knew existed all of the time.

>>61076672
What else would I install in a VM? Baguettes?

>>61074929
old. half broken. inefficient and for people with long beards

>>61074577
name a single reason, besides autism, why would any girl play mass effect.

>>61076565
Only less than 10% people need the (((premium))) production software. So if anything windows should have a 10% market share.
Linux has CAD and media editing which are more than good enough for the majority of people anyway.

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>>61076522
>Photo Editing
I find photo editing on Linux fine, it's not photoshop but it works.
>Video editing
You are correct on this, video editing on Windows with something like Sony Vegas and After Effects is fun, on Linux it is a fucking chore if it works most of the time. If you need to do more then apply some open source filter and slice up your video, you are fucked.
>Programming
Programming on Linux is better than Windows. Python feels like it's part of the system as opposed to something tact on. Gedit and other Linux notepad programs do great just writing code. Bash is also nice.

>>61074577
Windows 10

>>61076675
You misunderstood. ( Looking back, I wasn't that clear.) What I'm saying is new users fall victim to this strange assumption that they need to understand the whole Linux universe before they start using it. They don't understand that they can get by with maybe a dozen commands at most in the begining and expand that as their needs grow. Everyday tasks require no more effort than any other OS, if you choose to use your system like a granny.

Programming in windows is awful, and macs are expensive

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Why can't I browse catalog without JS?

>>61076931
>macs are expensive
I wouldn't call 149,00 euro's expensive.

>>61075007
How the fuck is linux not game-friendly?

>>61074577
I write scripts

>>61077218
>Make a retarded thread
>People call you out
>lol look at how mad you are

>>61074577
Programming and less game

>>61076607
I think they still get paid even if your mom doesn't call them.

>>61077295
XD

Once you use i3-wm its Almost impossible to use windows' shitty UI again

>>61077427
wrong
most of us get around 75-100 rupees per call

>>61074914
My uncle is a car enthusiast and drives a Mondeo, doing up old Rolls Royces in his spare time.

Why can't you understand that sometimes people want to use an option that actually works better for day-to-day use while leaving the more out-there options for their free time?

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>>61076772
>long beards

>>61075878
>>61075892
clean your monitor.

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>>61076195
why she got a fidget spinner on her armor?

>>61076562
yeah

>>61074577
Autism.

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>>61078101
It's a mystery.

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>>61078101

>>61078101
autism

>>61074946
>Calling Linux ancient
Meanwhile we are stuck using x86 and derivatives to maintain backwards compatibility with ancient Windows systems written in nonportable x86 assembly language

>>61078269
>Doesn't sort her lego bricks
She's not an autist.

Poor people in police state counties

>>61079516
Or maybe it's just better than (((Windows)))

>>61075055
>implying using the OS of globalists and the advertisement industry (Winderz) is the /pol/ way
hahaha

>>61074983
bollocks. majority of windows users are business users. although their share would definitely drop, windows would still have the majority by far

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>>61074577
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.

>>61075907
i thought linux fags would know enough about computers to understand that there is no upkeep to a windows system unless you're functionally retarded. I'm using built in windows defender and everything works perfectly.

Fuck off /v/.

I enjoy the ability to have my OS do stuff for me.

Syncing stuff
Splitting windows for work
Telling me what's new
Being very resilient (If DE or WM fails, everything can be done from a command line)

Using Windows via SSH is bullshit out of the box.

>>61075254
because it takes for fucking ever for new shit to be validated by quality departments and stuff, especially if you have to deal with fda and other government inspections. windows is so damn bloated because so many companies have too many barriers to upgrading things

>>61079471
Not all autistic people do that.

>>61074577
Hackintosh is a pain on some systems. Most people don't like adware either.

>>61077141
At ~€150, what kind of Mac are you going to find? Used, abused, budget macs here in the states go for no less than $500, and that's one with serious wear and tear.

I'm not willing to participate in the botnet.

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>>61074929
>linux

>>61076522
The real strength is for servers. How many of the top 500 supercomputers run windows ?

How many of the top 100 websites are served from windows servers ?

>>61074577
Impress babied normalfags and have fedora tipping rights.

>>61083446
>>61081579
They said name a single reason BESIDES autism

>>61075007
This is so true Valve ported the Source engine in months and made a working build of Left 4 Dead.

This thread seems good as any to ask. If what I am seeking is privacy or anonymity, it's worth to use Linux?

This is the only reason that would matter to me.

>>61084273
privacy and anonymity from who exactly?

>>61075152
Not wrong for Europe though.
New US cars are fucking terrible, but older vehicles were built like tanks and the parts or very easy to come by or machine new.
Japanese parts on the other hand cost an arm and a leg and require more frequent replacement (just like Euro cars and modern US cars)
But for Europe, the euro cars are local and the parts cheap and plentiful.

In Australia it's different again due to the proximity to Japan, most everything Japanese is cheap to buy and parts are available everywhere (and lots of parts are shared across many models) US is also cheap to buy since we built local versions of most of the American muscle drivetrains (Chrysler, Ford and GM all had plants here - GM is still here for another month only)
Euro cars in Australia are viewed as cars that break down often are very costly to buy parts for and are typically designed in the worst ways possible which makes labor costs very high.

>>61084282
In general. If I don't want my information leaking for third parties, like sites or programs which I use on my desktop or to the OS itself. I want to know if Linux tracks me as much as windows.

>>61075254
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(supercomputer)

peep os??