Give me one good reason why you aren't using linux right

my p as dry as your wallpaper lmaooooooooooo

Because I need windows and having two operating systems on kne computer is dumb

>>37114095
I like being part of the botnet.

>>37114125
You on;y think you need windows

Also see KVM pass through

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>>37114095
Because I don't want to spend my spare time doing stupid shit like writing a bash alias to reload my network driver kernel module whenever my laptop resumes from suspension

Linux isn't a valid desktop OS, its only viable use is for servers. People who have any value to society use Windows on their desktop, or they use a Mac if they need access to a Unix environment or just can't be bothered wasting their time with stupid shit.

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>>37114235
>bash
You've got bigger problems than just having to write aliases dude

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Your GPU is shit dude

and so is your OS

>>37114283
it's a laptop so yeah.

>implying windows is anywhere close to as good

>>37114095

because I use OSX
the security of unix
the usability better than the other major operating systems

I don't like fighting with my computer to render fonts correctly.

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>>37114095

because the battlefield 1 ROM im running wasnt compatible with linux distro

>>37114095
There is no power in the building

>>37114297
>>>implying windows is anywhere close to as good
It's so much better it's not even funny

t. someone who used to be a linux autist

>>37114302
Font rendering was fixed a while ago.

Enabling subpixel rendering and rgba anti aliasing is really hard dude

>>37114157
No, i need originpro which doesnt have a linux client. Same with my gps update program.
Also visual studio. Also games.
I could try to find some work arounds and use worse software or i could just use windows.

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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!

>>37114095
Video games.
Oroginulo

>>37114370


No, , 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.

>>37114393
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.

>>37114400

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.

>>37114393 <----BTFO

>>37114414
this guy.... this guy i like.

>>37114095
because i don't know all the commands and codes you need to use on there and to make stuff work.

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>>37114501

package manager + menu mode auto complete for flags

>>37114095
videogames
You have been muted for 2 seconds, because your comment was not original.

>>37114095

Because RTFM is not tech support.

>>37114235
>only viable use is for servers
And any kind of software development, excluding .net and similar shit.

>Mac
lol just fuck off

>>37114095
The Adobe Creative Suite.

None of the open-source alternatives are anywhere close to viable for professional work, particularly for photography.

I don't think Ableton Live runs on Linux and I don't want to deal with any potential latency that could occur with running it in a virtual machine.

>>37114095
THE CAPS LOCK HAS A FUCKING DELAY.

A MOTHERFUCKING DELAY.

REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>37114552
ardour is pretty good

Again KVM passthrough

>>37114235
this guy actually knows things, jerking off to linux to signal virtue grew old 20 years ago

OP makes this thread almost every day and I bet he's never converter a single person

>>37114095
Too poor to afford the necessary equipment on which to install open source software but Linux is OP and I wish I could install

I installed openSUSE on my computer... What do I do next?

It's just an operating system, that's all. All I do is browse 4chan in Firefox, and installing opensuse hasn't really changed my computer using experience.

People told me that installing Linux would help me learn more about Linux - it hasn't. I also haven't learned more about computers or programming or whatever else Linux was supposed to do for me.

Any advise? How to be the computer whiz that installing Linux was supposed to make me

>>37114628
What necessary equipment do you need?

All you need is a CD or a flash drive

Because GNU a shit.

Long live BSD

Linux strayed too far away from the UNIX path and now has cancer all over it

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>Download Debian because I wanted to try it out (also the games I like are old/open source so they all have linux ports)
>Run into a bunch of problems getting stuff to run
>Try it again for the second
>Get some things to work properly although awkwardly, but still can't get most shit to run
>Have to constantly google for help on things that should be quick and easy to do

>>37114095
no games

weokrowpefwef

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I am tho anon

>>37114095
I'm using the much superior temple os.

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give me one good reason why i should be using linux right now

Protip: you can't

i'm lazy and installing windows and getting it to my liking is much quicker than doing the same with linux.