Hey /g/, just installed Linux Mint on my laptop. So far I've

>>61517311
/g/ loves Linux. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either from /pol/, /v/, or is a Microsoft shill. Glad to hear you're enjoying it.

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>>61517311
>discord
>le RETRO XDDD pikachuuu (I owned da gaymeboi color btw ~~)
You realize that 4chan believes in God-ordained slavery right?

>>61517357
so, quick question about linux. What does this "Sonya," "Mint," titles mean? Is it like android with the whole Lolipop and Marshmellow kinda thing?

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>>61517311
>how to take a scr...
Almost made me bite it.
Have a (you) nice anon.

>>61517386
Live in the south, small town as well, so hearing someone believing in slavery shocks me none.

>>61517393
Mint is just the distro name, they use bitches names (Sonya, Serena etc) for all the releases. Clem just uses whichever bitch he turned out last for each release name

also, turn on the Firewall that comes with mint, for whatever reason it's not on by default.
better safe than sorry friend

>>61517434
Oh, ok. Thank you for the advice and explanation!

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>>61517311
>mint
>icons on desktop
>Cinnamon
>not using just a wm
>pokemon
>chromium
>discord
>>>/reddit/

>>61517462
Don't know what wm is, couldn't get chrome working right, and guide said it was Mint, so I didn't question.

>>61517462
He's new

OP here. How is gaming on Linux? There is a few programs I miss from windows. (Better discord mostly, but I hear there's a Linux version for it.) I know stardew valley runs well for one, the only game I've installed so far.

>>61517311
i use linux on my older computers or as VMs

>>61517477
windows manager
I suggest using virtualbox to try out other linuxy things

>>61517462
Cinnamon is a probably the best DE on Linux. Nobody is impressed that you dual boot Arch and Windows 10 on your epic gaming rig

>>61517546
Alrighty, thank you!
What is a VM?

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>>61517311
how can anyone prefer windows? it's literal shit on a plate

>>61517574
It's all I know. I've always preferred hardware over software, so idk what I use. (That and I don't know anything with gaming and linux, or else I'd switch.)

>>61517311
>Chromium
>Discord

Enjoy your botnets.

>>61517462
>arch
>wm
>le l33t terminals
>recommending a wm to a beginner
>>>/unixporn

faggot

>>61517596
Literally just got linux, how would I know what not to use and to use.

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>>61517606
Thanks for the (You)

>>61517311
Linux is considered harmful (as with Windows and MacOS). Use OpenBSD or Plan9 instead.

>>61517616
just install gentoo

>>61517642
Is that a different type of Linux?

>>61517616
the fact that you use chromium and discord isn't an issue with how new you are to linux.
It's an issue with what kind of person you are.

>>61517563
Virtual Machine

Basically, you run another OS inside a window on your current one.

That way you could be running windows with a "linux window" or vice-versa

>>61517662
OH. Ok, I had knew what a virtual machine was, just didn't know that's what it stood for. Ty

>>61517311
i will seriously reply to your thread if you post that wallpaper

>>61517574
sadly, the propietary software that is used as a standard and probably will never change, also the gamer kids.

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>>61517678
Uh, here you go I gues.

>>61517661
Couldn't get chrome. Also, fuck off, it's what I enjoy using, if you don't like it gtfo

>>61517606
>>recommending a wm to a beginner
wut? my foray into linux was with i3 -- i didn't even install a de. if you want to learn how something works you're just going to have to jump in a do it. starting out with a de that is similar to windows or osx isn't going to help prepare you at all.

>>61517477
>>61517634
>>61517642
Fuck off Stallman

Mint is the crowning achievement of open source

It just works - it gives a better user experience than Windows at the moment and my grandma and her friends use it.

You can even fault arch and Gentoo users for not using Slackware... Fuck that pretentiousness

>>61517703
>Couldn't get chrome
You're mistaken. Chrome is even worse than chromium.

>if you don't like it gtfo
wew sure is summer in here amirite

>>61517311
install Arc theme.

>>61517718
I disagree. Does what I need, lets me do business online. Don't need anything else.

No one's forcing you to be here

>>61517709
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/operating-systems/os-suck

>>61517738
Oh boy.

>>61517709
install gentoo

>>61517843
what is gentoo and what makes it so special?

>>61517462
>Arch
Install Gentoo

>>61517705
P-prepare you for what, anon?

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>>61517311
>What does /g/ think of Linux?
I haven't used Windows as my main OS since the late 90s and I haven't installed it on the bare metal of any of my machines since Windows Vista. In fact, I feel no need to run Windows at all anymore since WINE can play all of the Windows XP-era games that I like, and since I'm on 64-bit Intel platforms I have full IA32 backwards support.

My main OS is Fedora with XFCE. Everything just works, it's really stable, and there's support for even more software than Debian based distros. I've never had anything break.

My secondary OS is Mac OS X because I was gifted a MacBook Pro in 2011. It's pretty decent and I use it for programming and shitposting. It's pretty comfy but I wouldn't buy another one. I'd probably just hackintosh. I also have a handful of PowerPC Macs that I use to shitpost and play old games that just don't work in emulators due to bad hardware support.

My primary hobbyist OS is Haiku OS. It is to BeOS what React OS is to Windows. I can even browse 4chan from it which is pretty cool.

My secondary hobbyist OS is Arca Noae Blue Lion which is a continuation of IBM OS/2 with an updated interface and drivers. It works really well and has a nice amount of modern software for it available like a recent version of Firefox and all sorts of office and paint utilities. It also has DOS and Windows 3 built into it so I can run any DOS program and I have support for 99% of 16 and 32bit early Windows programs. It was the most advanced OS in the 90s.

>>61517311
Explore it for a few months then install arch + xfce4 DE thats when you start going up the learning curve you can even go the gentoo route in the future but I personally wouldnt

>>61517462
That font is awful, and also Firefox is using some other font for the address bar and tabs. Nice try though, I'm sure you'll get the hang of it once you stop dual booting

>>61518008
You seem well-versed in linux, so I have a question. How is gaming on linux? It's literally all I do, so idk about most other things.

I really want to like linux, but i tend to find it a little tedious, usually just a bunch of small things i find annoying.

Mostly to do with things like the system settings in the DE, often i want to do something and the only proper way to do it is hunt down a terminal command rather than anything i can change with the GUI.

Which is well, tedious for something i want to use as a daily driver and not as a quirky project.

>>61518055
I have noticed the little nit bits that linux has, from the short time I've used it. I do like it, and it doesn't bother me much. I can see how that could be a big issue

>>61518055
you are not describing Linux Mint. I promise you that it is easier than Windows 10 and the Cinnamon DE is basically identical to Win7 and easy as hell to change ANYTHING with a gui program. anything you would need the terminal to do you wouldn't be able to do in Windows anyways. the only reason I wouldn't go full Mint is games and programs that aren't available in linux

>>61518051
There are a few good games with Steam or native support so there's that. For everything else you have to run it in WINE or in a VM. You can look up WINE tutorials and it'll work with nearly ever program made for XP or Vista. Windows 7+ support isn't so good. You can use QEMU/KVM to run Windows and you can look up tutorials to do a GPU passthrough, where the host OS runs on the iGPU, 1GB of RAM, and one CPU core, then the Windows guest gets the dGPU and everything else. I don't actually use this so my knowledge of this is limited.

I personally play Minecraft, Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2, and a few games in DOSBox and that's it. I don't use Steam at all either because I got bored of TF2 and they kept sending me junk mail.

>>61517462
>doesn't know how to greentext

>>61517574
Just for games. As a father of 3 and full time job that's the only light in my life left

>>61518055
Example? I usually prefer using the terminal instead of point around with the mouse everywhere

>>61518051
Practically every indie game has a linux version these days, mostly due to unity and unreal having decent linux support.

http://store.steampowered.com/linux#p=0&tab=TopSellers

i'd say the selection is pretty decent these days.

>>61517935
Gentoo is an "advanced" distro where you build the packages from source by default. This allows for Gentoo's most well-known feature, USE flags. These allow you to control in great detail what parts of a program you want installed, such as support for a specific audio codec or what GUI toolkit to use. You can do crazy things like wget without HTTPS support. Gentoo is mostly seen as a meme distro around here due to its complexity. The phrase "Install Gentoo" is often used to lure newbies into something that's way too difficult to use for them. I've been using it on both my server and my laptop for a while now, and I definitely had some issues with it because I didn't know how to use the package manager properly, but I have to say once you git gud at it, it's a great distro.

>>61518051
It's shit.

>>61518224
Yeah even if there's a native version of the game on Linux it's usually subpar performance

>>61517590
>I've always preferred hardware over software
reddi* might be the place for you

>>61518051
>How is gaming on linux? It's literally all I do
>I really want to like linux
why

>>61517545
Its been hit and miss for me, most titles run better on windows with a small handful that perform better on Linux.
WINE a shit, works for a lot of older titles but its a pain in the ass to constantly fiddle with.
Opted for the non gratis solution of running windows in a VM with GPU passthrough instead.
Gets the job done for all titles with negligible performance hit, does 4K60 + VR and doesn't afraid of anything.

honestly if you want to play games, just install pirated Windows 7 next to Linux to play windows games. they perform better in windows and you can still use Linux when you're done feeding in League

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I like Linux, OP. Solus Budgie here. Ignore the faggots, stick with a debian-based distro such as Mint until you're comfortable with it, then branch out later if you want to. Ignore anyone shilling arch, gentoo, or window managers this early. Just enjoy Mint for a while.

>>61517357
>/pol/ doesn't like linux
What makes you think this?

>>61517545
http://www.simonizor.gq/discorddownloader.html
This script can install betterdiscord

>>61517574
It has more programs available.

Why do you prefer linux?

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>>61518008
>My main OS is Fedora

>>61519118
le /pol/ boogyman

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>>61519202
Fedora is professional software. The US government uses it.

>>61517709
>Slackware
If you hate proper package management so much you can always just go back to windows.

>>61519118
I guess it's /pol/ constantly bitching that free software projects are full of liberals and SJWs?

>>61519909
/pol/yps are cucked and defend the rights of corporations. To them libre software is communism and communism is bad.

>>61519048
Most sensible linux post on /g/ of all time.

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>>61520315
>>61519048
I run Arch on my desktop because I like having control over my packages, but it definitely isn't for new users.
First distro was Ubuntu, then BunsenLabs (which I still run on my laptop).

Basically you just have to ask yourself "do I want to spend 5 hours installing an OS so I can customise the hell out of it?" If the answer is "yes", Arch is for you.

>>61520315
I started off with linux when I was 14 back in summer of 2004. My first distro was Slackware, configuring everything manually and compiling everything from source, including the kernel teaches you a lot. Now, 13 years later, I can really appreciate package managers with automatic dependency resolution and know what a time saver they are. However, I am glad I started with a 'hard' distro because I know what is going on 'behind the scenes'.

I'm getting a new laptop soon and will run void on it because one thing I have trouble with today is systemd-init. I got used to init.d and rc.d, I'm still not confident in writing run scripts for systemd, seems overly complicated. Runit treating everything as a file is a breath of fresh air. I'd use Debian with runit but I'm afraid that software/packages in Debian are so dependent on systemd that I might end up with an unstable system that breaks during updates.

>>61519982
>implying communism isn't bad
>>>/leftypol/

>>61520420
>implying foss isn't anarcho capitalism

>>61517311
Mint is a cool first distro, a little bit of handholding for the clueless.

I love GNU/Linux so much than I learn advanced things and I actually use like barebones installation and servers, and I am not on the IT field.

Freedom is not just a word, is a way of life.

>>61517311
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering 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!

>>61517545
I constantly play terraria via lan on my arch + i3-gaps acer of 7 years ago. It's faster than windows and any other linux distros I tried so far.
One quarter of my steam it's inaccessible thought, so I have a pc with win7 for my older games too.
(If you have a faster machine with linux, a virtual machine and/or wine it's perfectly fine, you need nothing else)

>>61520429
The big difference is that you can opt in or out. If you and your buddies want to start a workers syndicate business or whatever, I don't give a shit, don't involve me in it

>>61517410
get outta here, commie.

>>61517311
Peppermint is better

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>>61520420
>he enjoys being a wage slave

>>61517311
>Just installed linux mint
Do you like AIDS too?
What about dying children? Do you want them to die? Wtf is wrong with!?

>>61517311
>not fedora gnome
nigga you have to go full freetart

>>61517311
i run mint on all my non gaymen pc's. dunno why it gets so much hate around here.
cinnamon is realy intuitive, brings most thing you might need, while beeing more lightweight than kde, and it has yet to crash on me.

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>>61521344
>gnome

>>61520395
Who the hell spends 5 hours installing arch? You can have a base arch linux install in like 10 minutes.

>>61521344
Cinnamon is the only desktop environment that makes sense. It's for people who actually want to get work done.

>>61517616
Well maybe you should do some research on why everyone here hates what you have installed instead of being Whiny bitch.

Nobody gives a fuck about your basic bitch mint setup either. Might as well install Mac OSX.

>>61518306
wasn't the one who said that I wanted to like linux

>>61521551
Wouldn't expect them to care about my setup, and you I'd rather go in blind, makes exploring more fun.

>>61517311
Man ignore all the haters, good for you for trying out Linux.

>>61521551
wow you must have a sad life to be such a dick

>>61518051
I've a pretty good computer. Compared to Windows, any GNU/Linux distribution I've used, including Arch Linux, Solus, and Ubuntu, all of them are slightly slower even with proprietary drivers. Expect input lag and general decrease in performance, even on native running games.

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>>61521551
You're the problem in the community. You're what's driving people away from using alternatives to OSX/Windows. Stop acting like you're above everybody, you're just embarrassing yourself.

>>61521625
don't install a compositor

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>>61521551
https://www.who.ru

>>61521671
This is not a community you pajeet. Go and do the needful and lecture somebody else.

>>61519221
No, they use Windows

>>61521699
>.ru
No, Ivan.

>>61521681
I'm use to running cinnamon/gnome desktop environments. If i'm to install gnome on arch would mutter be the problem? Should I install the gnome shell separately?

>>61517311
Linux mint is my go-to linux os, lubuntu isn't far behind. It is very comfy, and most importantly it just works.

>>61521509
>gnome classic
>gnome flashback
prove me wrong
protip: you can't

>inb4 ramlet
xfeces

>>61517357

/pol/ loves Linux. They hate the (((botnet))) as much as /g/ays.

>>61517311
I have been using GNU/linux for a while and just yesterday I had to use windows and it was really really slow and felt like it was fight against me. It was on better hardware however.

>>61521731
My monitor is pretty low resolution and I don't like making fonts smaller / messing around with GTK 3.0 configs. You get the greatness that comes along with the gnome shell with a laid back desktop.

>>61521722
I don't really have any idea. I haven't used compositors on linux for more than like 20 minuites. They added tonnes of lag though.
The main drawback for me is that some applications have no idea how to vsync themselves without a compositor, like firefox. Luckilly I can just stream videos in mpv, but its annoying.
until wayland works perfectly I'm not installing a compositor again

>>61518008
>Wine can play all my XP games
I would dual boot my gaming rig with linux if this were true. But it's not.
I'll give a few points for being able to run Humongous Entertainment games

>>61517650
Don't listen to him. Gentoo is an advanced Linux distribution, who's main "feature" is compiling every package from source code (instead of using already ready to use binaries like most distributors).

>>61520395
That's bullshit. I only spend 4 hours I installing Arch.

>>61521671
who is this flute qt?

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Most normies are better served by Windows. But if you're on /g/ you're probably a hobbyist.

>>61517978
To use the terminal, maggot.

>>61521769
fonts are desktop irrelevant and afaik no de can set your fonts besides some joke like hinting

>>61517616
>He didn't read the fucking sticky

>XD

>>61517311
>>61517357
>>61517393
>GNU/Linux