does /pol/ use linux to shitpost? if so, what are your thoughts

>>132653171
I do.
I don't know anything about him. I'm just interested in using the best product at the lowest price. For me, that's Linux Mint.

>>132653412
Linux is a good OS, no denying that.
The man behind it, and the cult behind him, which seems to be a very large subset of the linux community however, is not so good.

>>132653171
Lemme guess. Can't resize the image with the GNU vi editor?

>>132653696
y-yeah, t-totally, that's the j-joke

>>132653557
Ok. So in what way does my using Linux Mint impact this guy (positively or negatively)? It's not like I'm paying for it. One would think that if I would be effecting anyone, it would be Linus Torvalds, the guy who writes the kernel code, not who I am guessing is the "Install Gentoo" meme guy.

>>132653557
What are you talking about? Linus and his fanbase are some of the most based people in the tech industry.

>>132653981
i never said it did, i'm just asking other linux users what they think about one of the MAJOR figures in the linux community i.e. do they believe him when he rambles on about how gahnoo plus linux and free software are an ideology rather than just an os

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>>132653171
Literally every single fucking one of his predictions turned out to be true.

Call him a commie kike socialist heeb all you want but the truth is, Stallman was always right.
And all he wants to do is help you be free.

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>>132653171
Linus Torvalds created Linux, not this fame-stealing Zuckerclone kike.

Linux is literally name after Linus (LINU-x).

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>>132654156
Depends on the Distro. Mint feels more like Windows 7 than Windows 7 does. Presuming you don't need any professional applications, like AutoCAD, and you don't play video games on PC, Windows 7/8/10 are resource hogs in comparison to what works straight out of the box.

The fact that it comes with a built-in firewall, built-in disk encryption, and built-in user encryption that are activated with a check of a box and a password being entered in twice means it actually does more than MS with less effort.

>>132653412
>don't know anything about one of the greatest programmers currently alive
He literally wrote gcc.

I try to divorce peoples' work from their political beliefs. Especially if the work is good.

>>132654886
>AutoCAD
We use BricsCAD at my work. It's on Linux, Windows, and Mac.

>>132654407
Literally nothing. The man doesn't enter into my thoughts at all unless someone like you brings attention to him, either through memes or by asking questions about him.

If not for those two things, I wouldn't even know he existed.

Now, if you're asking about the FOSS mentality, I've already given my answer for that: I want the best product for the lowest price. GIMP isn't Photoshop, and never will be, so if I need to Photoshop, I'll use Photoshop. I save word documents in .doc and .docx formats when the need arises. I'll listen to .mp3s. I'm not opposed to any of it.

>>132655025
Ok. Kudos to him for that. I still don't know, or care to know, his political beliefs. It's not like he makes a profit whenever my laptop accesses GCC. Since he isn't getting any of my money, I don't feel as though I need to research the dude's politics. Whether I "vote with my wallet" or winds up with me spending 0 dollars and 0 cents to the man.

Stallman is a genius. He is completely self-sufficient. He eats parts of his own feet for sustenance.

>>132656117
I thought that was the guy who made Temple OS to kill "glow in the dark CIA niggers."

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Linux in general is meh and Stallman is a communist jackass. Not to say I love the bullshit lock-in crap pulled by the proprietary software companies, but Stallman is at the far other extreme with his copyleft nonsense. The GPL is a complete bitch if you are ever trying to use anything written under it in a commercial product. I think a good middle ground are the Apache and MIT licenses.

Linux is a mess and getting messier, and most of its claims to fame were actually invented by either BSD or proprietary Unix like Solaris, I'm talking about things like PAM and NFS. Linux's origins as a hobbyist desktop system are still obvious to anyone who actually works in computing.

>>132656495
To be fair, I only tried Mint because I didn't want to upgrade to Windows 10 (for obvious reasons), and 7 was slow, and kept annoying me with "reminders" that Windows 10 was free to upgrade to. Shit got old quick. I can't help that I fell in love with it.

That said, Linux distros that are looking to be something profitable are the exception, not the rule. Most Linux distros are made by people who are looking for something that's right for them. If you like it too, then cool. If not, that's also fine.

>>132656988
There is a tool called "Never10", I used it to keep my 7 install from being annoying. Don't get me wrong I use Linux too, it has won the *nix wars, all the other distros are all but dead...mainly by being the first to really get a packaging system correct. I'd still rather have solaris or BSD for a storage server so I could run a real ZFS implementation, but I digress.

The number of distros looking to be profitable may be minor in count, but they have an enormous impact on the Linux ecosystem as a lot of the big contributors to open source work for one of the big companies like RedHat or Canonical and are putting in "features" that serve the corporate interest.

>>132658149
>There is a tool called "Never10", I used it to keep my 7 install from being annoying
I was gone a week after the popups started. I wasn't aware of it until quite a bit after I had already abandoned it.

>The number of distros looking to be profitable may be minor in count, but they have an enormous impact on the Linux ecosystem as a lot of the big contributors to open source work for one of the big companies like RedHat or Canonical and are putting in "features" that serve the corporate interest.
I never meant to minimize their impact. I was simply stating why Linux was so messy. I'm willing to wager, without ever having used them, that RedHat is one of the less messy distros, too. I bet they want to make a product that sells, and realize what they need to do in order for it to sell.

>>132656117
Underrated comment.

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> lol linux mint is so based herr derr

install arch linux or go back to plebbit normiefags

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>>132653171
>does /pol/ use linux to shitpost?
>if so, what are your thoughts on this commie, kike loon?
yes
pic related

>>132654804
>it's actually GNU+Linux
everything GNU is shit actually