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| Also currently using to write custom bootloader for my current phone. Will probably fail but fuck it
| Using a Linux laptop and loving every minute of it. I do it for the inconvenience and elitism.
| If you're on Android, aren't you technically a Linux user :p
| Everyday Linux user here. Not a trace of Windows on my drives (if you don't count Wine)
| Arch Linux laptop + Debian NAS user. The only Windows program I need to run is scanner software, f*cking HP with proprietary standards!
| I made the switch to Debian stable not too long ago as I started locking down my systems for security and privacy. I had used Ubuntu and Arch in the past but always returned to Winblows. Now very happy and if there's anything I can't do I run it in a VM.
I also considered Fedora or Ubuntu, but I wanted something stable and 100% FOSS. Ubuntu is coming out with a new release here soon, and they support ZFS. Really tempting.
| I have 2 drivers one Windows one Linux and i switch mainly if i want to do something safe and secured i choose Linux.
| If your concern is with the privacy/security end, most distros are not without their security issues, that are unique to themselves. Each distro will have it's own list of chores to make it more secure, it's just a matter of preference.
| >>f64c3e
But you searching for something quite uncommon as said how many security issues are you gonna find at distro 200 250 300 and those are too many.But at Windows you have about 40.000 things to look for.
| Of course there are. I use Debian for work and laptop; home desktop has Debian and win7 for starcraft2, Witcher and all the Homeworld games; my family uses Mint for both computers; one friend uses Slackware and another Xubuntu; and another friend was asking me for help to reinstall his laptop and was curious to try a distro, felt fed up with the antivirus slowing down his system by half.
| >>46dd74
I dont use linux for games thats why i have win plus if you are using steam the majority of games does not exists on Linux.
| >>244966 Well true that. But over the years I have become a lot more practical about many things. If the games I like need windows, then I will just use it for that purpose only, as is the case indeed. I see no need to be a zealot about something that is after all, a game, or gaming. It is play and I know it.
For everything else that I do not consider a game, is important to me or otherwise I need to be serious about, it is Linux all the way, for almost 15 years now.
| >>244991
I understand what you saying but i prefer my Linux for programming and hacking.I think you know why.
| I just deleted my last windows vm (VM) which I needed for some old (but fucking expensive) periphery device with propriety winxp-only driver. The only reason people think they need windows is constructed/by design. I am finally windows-free now after 10 years I switched to linux. Except for wine to run some games.
| >>244530
But ofcourse. All my 4 computers are running GNU/Linux. I don't have Windows in my household. There's not one reason I'd need to use Windows.
| i like linux
| Is this were the cool people hang out?
| Are Linux users morally ascendant beings? And Windows and Mac users the scum of the earth and the dregs of humanity?
| Every OS user is equal cuz every OS has upsides and downsides depends on what the user want to accomplish.
| >>248702
This is the truth. A lot of people gave me problems for using Mac in the past but I was working freelance in film. I wasn't as educated in computing as I am now either so I didn't honestly know where to start with Linux at that time.
| >>248695
It's not about morale but about intelligence. Only idiots give up freedom to live in a cage that only is advertised to be comfortable while in fact it stays behind technological and ergonomical. Windows became more and more unix-alike for the sake of security and stability. Mac is much better in this point, but still lacks beeing open when it comes to customization and development. The most horrible thing is to tie the hardware with the software artificially.
| >>248737
The Problem is that Microsoft and Apple invest much into lobby work even in public education institutions. In most schools and universities people are teached to work with Windows and Mac Software. I also heard about courses where elder studends and tutors and teachers told new students they need a mac in some of these "something with media" studies.
| >>248744
>>248750
This gurl brings up some good points. Most users fail to bring the freedom aspect of technology into comparison. When presented with a cool new "convenient" feature people should always ask themselves whether it also takes their freedoms away. If it does, then simply don't use it. In terms of freedom GNU/Linux and the BSDs beat Windows and Mac out of the water.
| I'm using Manjaro KDE on my desktop and Arch with i3 on my laptop. Recently I've been playing in League of Legends using Wine and in Silent Hill 2 using PCSX2, everything was fine.
| >>249243 That actually happens. We are all very often limited in such choices from what is available around us.
| >>248744 this is the kind of smug self-righteousness that makes it harder for GNU/Linux to be embraced by the general public and become mainstream
| Manjaro fag right here
| I use an Ubuntu machine at work and it's no problem 90% of the time. The biggest hassle is gettig printer/scanner functionality and some specialized industry software to work.
| >>249332 I don't see why it should be mainstream. Neither the developers nor the true users say that or act towards that. It has always been a choice to use it if it fits your needs. Why should you?
Well, it is exactly the answers to that question why intelligence was mentioned in >>248744 .
| I've started using Linux at work now, standard Ubuntu + Gnome type of deal, figured I'd go mainstream to minimise risk. But now I feel that I should compensate for that and use something a little more esoteric at home. How's KDE doing these days?
| >>250400 A friend of mine who uses it likes it a lot indeed. I know he is picky and doesn't like useless fluff, so if he says it is good I'd think KDE to be good. He has Linux Mint. Personally I use GNOME (which I will not have on my next laptop install because it keeps becoming worse) and XFCE and LXDE.
| >>249243
Well, either they use linux and learned how to solve problems (where I love to hel em) or they use windows and come over and over again to me asking: "I want do this and this, but I am too stupid. You are an expert, blahblah" My answer is then: "Sry, I don't get paid by Microsoft/Apple to give support for their unfree system. Either install a free system like linux or go to official microsoft/Apple support for your surely legal and paid copy"
| >>249332
Actually the smug self-righteousness of companys like Microsoft and Apple and their founders/leaders is the reason why their products have become mainstream and defacto monopolists, including lobbying, marketing and customer bounding.
Joke:
- How many Microsoft workers you need to install a light-bulb?
- One: he defines "darkness" as new standard.
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| Anyone here using Linux as a daily driver? I switched to Fedora 27 using i3-gaps and my God it's amazing.
>Ensue Linux debauchery