What are the advantages of a gnu/linux os over a Windows OS?
I'll be using nonfree sites like 4chan and playing nonfree pc games so don't include anything about privacy or it being open source since that will be irrelevant.
>>55538729
>What are the advantages?
>Ignore the advantages
>Linux sux, checkmate
Stick with windows, continue to watch the walled garden grow around you.
>>55538748
You're posting in a walled garden right now, why is it wrong for Microsoft but ok for everyone else?
Every Linux OS is almost a walled garden in themselves anyway just filled with subpar software.
>>55538729
Install it or don't install it. Get ass fucked or don't get ass fucked. Your computer. Your anus. We don't really care.
>>55538729
since the anons above are fucking freetards I'll answer
the biggest advantage of linux is that it's mostly community-supported and used by programmers so there's a lot of ways to customize it - and I'm not only talking about ricing it (though it is a cool feature) but about building you own user experience with everything working the way you do
you can change file managers, window managers, not just widgets like in Windows or Mac
if OSes were toys, macOS would be some kind of expensive hyperrealistic designer talking doll, Windows would be an action figure with a lot of pivots to move it around and Linux would be Lego
You'll still own your computer.
>>55540296
>>55538943
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!
