should i use windows or gnu/linux?
>>54430152
Neither.
both windows and linux
>>54430152
Get wild and try a *BSD. Protip: OSX counts.
>>54430152
You running a server?
Linux
Otherwise Windows
>>54430169
>>54430197
linux is a kernel, the operating system is called GNU. get it straight, faggots
According to my authority that I pulled out of my ass just now, you should use both so that you become competent in each environment.
>>54430590
no one cares nerd
Good album.
>>54430152
honestly, just dualboot. i've run several linux distros exclusively on computers and it's not even worth it. plus if you like games and don't want wine bugging with everything then you may as well just use windows.
At the same time, it really depends on your needs and how devoted you are to your computer. Dual-booting is just what works best for me.
>>54430669
you pedophiles make me sick
You want gaymen and virus?
windows.
You want internet and computer?
linux.
>>54430669
>Lolicore Ruined My Life
Mah nigga
>>54430152
>>54430669
this is so generic
>>54430152
Call it GNU or call it Linux. GNU/Linux is objectively incorrect.
>>54430730
lolis are not children!
>>54430590
>operating system is called GNU
No, Richard, 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.
>>54430152
Whatever fits your usecase.
>>54430695
Install GNU/Linux.
Windows sucks.
Trust me. I'm impartial because I dual boot.
>>54430669
tomboyish love for daughter is the only good thing to come out of this god forsaken genre
>>54430835
nice pasta, but it's still GNU/Linux
>>54430152
>>54430669
>tfw
>>54430176
Friendly reminder that OS X is not really a BSD.
The kernel, Mach/XNU, has nothing to do with BSDs. Mach itself is a very slim kernel which basically only implements message passing, virtual memory and scheduling. On top of that, you can have several "personalities" or subsystems. One of them is BSD code from FreeBSD, which implements the POSIX subsystem and system calls.
Calling OS X a BSD is like calling Windows a Linux just because it now has a Linux subsystem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux).
>>54430854
Seconded. As a MCSE since 2000, i can say Windows 10 is shit. There is no OS without issues. The problem with Windows 10 is, that the issues are random and often not reproducible. It's a fucking nightmare.
>>54430868
Nah, Odaxelagnia and Japshitfun have some good stuff too. The genre is 95% shit tho
>>54430868
>>54431005
Hellblinde
Vaenus' old album
maedasalt
https://chrisgendo.bandcamp.com/
Windows if you use your computer.
Linux if you have autism and just want to fuck your desktop up so you can post it in desktop threads.
>>54430152
If you already don't know, better do gender studies.
>>54431171
also Emray
>>54430835
Feel free to put nothing but a kernel on your system and let me know how successful your "OS" is.
>>54431202
You mixed something up. If you want a reliable OS, that just werks choose Linux.
Except games, there is no reason to choose windows.
Is it your computer?
Then gnu/linux.
If it is a work computer, there is probably a reason it runs windows when they gave it to you and you should clear with your employer before installing something else.
>>54430152
If you want a cerebral lobotomy and be happy windows
If you want to live in a small communtity in the middle of the desert. But free, educated and controlling your own life gnu/linux.
Just GNU
>>54431380
a small communtity of millions of tech-literate people*
>>54430152
I have that in my car. 7/10 (not into the ear piercing noise he uses sometimes)
>>54431406
small community compared to 9/10 worldwide PCs running windows.
>>54431434
>>54431406
A small community of a million users
THEY ARE BOTH TERRIBLE
One OS is spyware and the other one forces you to use shit software unless you unstabley run it with wine.
>>54430669
>>54430973
Jesus Christ this is a real genre?
>>54430885
That name is retarded and so is the animal. I mean why the fuck did he choose an animal no one has heard of? What the fucks a gnu?
![Texhnolyze - 07 [DVD 720x480 x264 AAC].mkv-0003.png](https://i.imgur.com/1FLVsUq.png "Texhnolyze - 07 [DVD 720x480 x264 AAC].mkv-0003.png")
I like GNU/Linux Trisquel. It's speedy and nice.
>>54432885
nigga do you even /mu/
>>54430152
Since you asked, you must use Windows.
>>54432939
GNU is a stupid name, that's why no one acknowledges it. It perfectly illustrates how much of an autist that Stallman is that is out of touch with reality. He chooses one of the most obscure of animals no one has heard of.
>>54432885
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCDFXp28BnQ
>>54430152
Both.
Keep Windows contained in a VM
>>54430152
ubuntu you gentile
>>54432982
much better call an OS "Windows" when only has backdoors.
>>54432939
nice anime
>>54432982
>GNU is a stupid name, that's why no one acknowledges it
Now you sound like an idiot. Plenty of people acknowledge it. And a species of antelope isn't that bad of a name.
>>54432982
GNU is a recursive acronym.
Which stands for GNU's not Unix.
and inb4 you start sperging about how retarded this is, Apple's OS X kernel is called XNU. XNU's not Unix.
>>54430635
>I got told but I'll show him the level of my ignorance anyway
![Texhnolyze - 20 [DVD 720x480 x264 AAC].mkv-0001.png](https://i.imgur.com/lrvcizk.png "Texhnolyze - 20 [DVD 720x480 x264 AAC].mkv-0001.png")
>>54433028
Sad though.
>>54433040
Doesn't XNU incorporate some Mach code too?
>>54433040
GNU is not the kernel, it's the rest of the operating system which is why the name is important. Linux the kernel has the better name when it should be the other way around.
>>54432992
Holy fuck, it reminds me of Passenger of Shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28CXy97ZOoM
Do people actually listen to that shit?
>>54430152
If you have money, definitly Windows. If not definitly Debian.
>>54433204
Passenger of Shit is huge in the 4ch*n Cup
>>54433204
>Do people actually listen to that shit?
ironically
>>54433215
Is Bunsen as good as #!. I really miss how simple #! was to setup and use OOTB.
There literally isn't a single OS worth using
Just find an alternative to computing altogether
>>54430995
But Dragonfly doesn't use a BSD kernel and it's considered BSD. Also Next Computer didn't use the BSD kernel and it was considered a BSD Unix. As a matter of fact developer preview releases of OS X were licensed encumbered as BSD until Berkeley closed the CRSG and opensourced 4.4BSD.
>>54430169
This. Use Linux primarily and Windows when absolutely needed.
>>54432942
This makes me want to start browsing /mu/. What are their favorite lolis?
>>54433086
Yeah.
>>54433448
don't believe everything you see, less that 0.001% of /mu/ is actually into this
>>54430973
Hope you ordered the vinyl too
>>54432938
He chose the word GNU partly because it is associated with puns and humor. Have you really never heard anyone say "What's gnu?"
Also, another name for the animal is a wildebeest.
>>54432982
>fucking wildebeest
>obscure
stop that
>>54433672
>Have you really never heard anyone say "What's gnu?"
god damn it
also, anyone I've know who would care to ask already knows about it, so I've never actually heard anyone say this
>>54433644
nah
>don't have a vinyl player
>only 2 good tracks
>autistic cover art by ayane
>>54433742
I thought somebody else did the art.
Also don't understand why they did 6 songs that will last maybe 30 minutes total on a 12"
>>54433215
>paying for software you can't own instead of installing free software that you can own
>wahh I can't make decisions by myself
>>54433967
you might be right
also it's just 23:15, probably best to just download it in placebo FLAC
>>54430152
>>54430973
Fuck, is lolicore still a thing? Beautiful
>>54430152
I would like to interject right now. What you are referring to as gun/linux, is actually just linux. Only autistic niggers call it gnu/linux
>>54431301
Still an OS.
You should use OS X
>>54434517
>browsing r9k, ironically or not
>>54434689
It's like /b/ but for adults.
>>54434493
Really? Take a screenshot of you using it and post it here.
