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Has anyone on /g/ attempted to use Linux without GNU? How was
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Has anyone on /g/ attempted to use Linux without GNU? How was it?

I'm talking about a desktop or laptop install, shit like android or open-WRT doesn't count
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You cannot run Linux without GNU
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>>54640729
>linux without GNU
why?
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Isn't Alpine Linux something like that?
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I have a friend whose dream is the Linux kernel with the FreeBSD userland. He's autistic enough to pull something like that off, but after a few weeks of effort, he decided it was effectively impossible.
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>>54641186
But you can.
You just have to replace GNU utilities with Berkly utilities. Or you could reinvent the wheel and damage your wrists recreating the coreutils from scratch.
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>>54641186

What is Android
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>>54640729
Have fun without any
Bash and bash utils
gtk
GNOME and GNOME applications


and gcc
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Has anyone ever attempted to use GNU without Linux?
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>>54642176
>without gtk and GNOME
Where do I sign for that?
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>>54641286

Yeah.

I use it all the time.

It's bretty gud.
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>>54642176
>Have fun without any GNOME and GNOME applications

Oh you bet I will. In fact, I do. GNOME is cancer
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>>54642176

>bash
It sucks, I use zsh.

>GTK
Literally cancer.

>GNOME
Literally never used it.

>GCC
Slowest compiler in the world.
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Has anyone attempted to use Linux without GUI?
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Has anyone on /g/ attempted to use janky ass OEM coolers?
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>>54642271
>Slowest compiler in the world.
Enjoy compiling linux softwares
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>>54642226
>>54642263
What browser and image editing tool do you use?
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>>54642303

Enjoy crippling bugs that compromise your entire system.
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>>54642319

Internet Explorer and Word respectively.
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>>54642350
What bug are you referring to? Are you implying your compiler is free of bugs?
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>>54642363

Meant to say Paint.
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>>54642363
>Word
>Image editor
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>>54642363
>IE
How are the ads treating you, wincuck?
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>>54641216
Being a hipster
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>>54642401

GNU is the hipster thing, you cuck.
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>>54642401
If you don't use Windows, you are a hipster.
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>>54642435
Linux without GNU is hipster, stop trying
>>54642446
This would be the case but this is /g/ and stallman is in the sticky
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>>54642271
>bash it sucks I use zsh.
I know cd and ls, so time for something trendier.
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>>54642435

Hipsters love authority.

GNU is inherently anti-authority.
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>>54642378

>OP
Has anyone used Linux without GNU in desktops?
>Buttravaged prajeet
Hurr Durr yes I don't use gtk now where are my rupees I want some curry plates and bing points

Fuck off back to where you belong, street shitter
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>>54642206
Debian has
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>>54642491
>GNU is inherently anti-authority.

False
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>>54641186
>what is alpine
>what is any linux distro with muslib and busybox insyead of gahnoo
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>>54642783
>>what is alpine
>>what is any linux distro with muslib and busybox insyead of gahnoo
SHIT
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>>54642687

All GNU cares about is free software. That is an inherently anti-authoritarian view.
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>>54642838

>what is GPLv3
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>>54642892

>they're forcing me to be free ZOMG nazis
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