Why haven't you switched to Linux yet, anon?

vidya

>>508420035 (OP)
Because I actually use my computer.

>>508420035 (OP)

I did in 2005

>>508420035 (OP)
I did 17 years ago and haven't looked back. Now i'm considering switching all my systems to OpenBSD.

>>508420177
this

>>508420035 (OP)
My windows 10 PC randomly stopped being able to boot and just goes to BIOS since yesterday. The hard drive is still fine so I guess that means something is wrong with the boot partition or the boot files or whatever. Taking this as my sign to switch to linux, making a usb live boot of mint right now so I can try to salvage all my files off my hard drives first before I start installing a new operating system

>>508420035 (OP)
I've used Linux since 2010 but, honestly, I've been using Windows quite a bit lately and don't hate it.
I'll always be a cli guy so Powershell plus Terminal (with WSL thrown in when needed) makes it very usable.

>>508420177
Steam is available on Linux

>>508420035 (OP)
linux users are the vegans of the tech world, you can safely ignore them and call them retards.

>>508420758
based

>>508420773
>Powershell plus Terminal (with WSL thrown in when needed) makes it very usable.
If you haven't already, try out Gitbash. When i am occasionally forced to use windows for work, that's what I use. WSL is too clunky feeling... if i need a real POSIX/UNIX environment while on a windows system, i just use a VM.

>>508420035 (OP)
BECAUSE IM LAZY OK? FUCK

>>508420935
Thanks for the recommend!
I hop back and forth between Windows and Linux depending on my mood. I've got 4TB on my laptop split up between the two of them so it's simple to switch back and forth.

>>508420035 (OP)
I'd just like to interject for a 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!

>>508420035 (OP)
>spend all day hunting down a chain of obscure antiquated dependencies in order to use a calculator

or

>actually use a computer to be productive

I know which one I choose

>>508420425
Kek . . . obviously not for computing. . . What to you do? Are you a content creator or a social media manager?

>>508420035 (OP)
i did but i got sick of sitting for an hour and a half while it did updates

and i have to go through hell trying to get what windows can do effortlessly

and i DON'T even LIKE windows

>:(

>>508420035 (OP)
cuz i made my own OS duhh

>>508420911
They advertise their use of Linux as a way of signaling to other anti-social dweebs their possession of small onions balls.

>kek, u use windows?? I can do anything so much faster in Linux
>Tries to do video editing
>30 minutes later is back posting on the Microsoft forums as an MVP Contributor

>>508420035 (OP)
Because LINUS IS FOR FUCKING CHILDREN. We use netBSD here anon

>>508420035 (OP)
I'm actually going to buy my first laptop in like seven years (I've been phonefagging the entire time) just because I want to document some grows and look at the photos on a nice big screen. So, I can buy an iPhone and MacBook for a reasonable amount of money and have them talk to each other perfectly every time, or I can buy a more expensive System76 laptop and fiddle with photo sharing (or buy a "blank" laptop and fiddle around even more), or finally I can buy garbage Windoze and experience something like >>508420758, not a tough decision.

>>508420035 (OP)
Because Linux for is trannies.
Windows is the operating system for white aryans.

>>508421268
>obscure antiquated dependencies
You could use flatpak or embedded libs.

>>508420035 (OP)
Because I like FreeBSD more

>>508422345
>Because Linux for is trannies.
lol lmao
>Windows is the operating system for white aryans.
sure it is, shabbos goyim.

>>508420035 (OP)
But I am.

I use it already op. Only a retarded cuck who likes getting Xbox Game Pass ads still uses Windows.

>>508421268
Ok nigger jeet. Show me what you produce. You are a useless piece of shit.

>>508420035 (OP)
switching to linux in about a week or so. Done forever with windows. Fucking piece of shit fag software that they keep pushing ever more bloat on

>>508422429
netBSD is the ONLY ACCEPTABLE OPERATING SYSTEM

>>508422345
Apple Stores are as white as the driven snow... and that's a good thing.

Shhhh don't help the normalniggers.

Jee wizz I just loved the newest windows 11 update! The co-pilot AI gave me the best gut buster joke involving an inter-racial couple when I logged in!

>>508420177
you can play any game on linux if your not a retard. this is no longer an excuse to continue using jeetware

>>508420035 (OP)

>>508420035 (OP)
I hope some glow guys destroy linux no I cannot tolerate

>>508423262
You don't even have to use wine libraries or bottles or lutris anymore. You simply enable proton in the steam setting and it just works in 99% of cases now.

>>508420177
The only games that don't work are ones with anti cheat engines that disallow Linux. The obvious reality is that Linux supports more games than any OS ever or all consoles combined.

>>508422009
I’ve edited films in Linux. It worked out pretty well. I prefer to use Mac over all three but keeping up with hackentosh with work is too time consuming. Linux is the best option for editing film now Imo

>>508422009
Also this made me laugh

>>508420035 (OP)
Loonix is only free if your time is worth nothing.

>>508420035 (OP)
As a desktop OS, it has been stuck around 1% market share for 25 years now. Because Linux never works as advertised and the Linux fan crowd are insufferable faggots with an American-tier superiority complex.

Last time I tried Linux, the installer didn't recognize my ordinary mass-market motherboard and video card and actively sabotaged any attempt from my side to install non-generic drivers for them. I asked about the conflicts on a Linux subreddit and all I got were a few useless, arrogant trannies lecturing me about "skill issues". So I told them to go die in a fire and got banned. Linux is a nuisance in every respect. Fuck that shit. Windows just works. Windows is the working man's OS.

>>508422904
Yeah if you're trying to run an OS on a toaster or some shit.