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>> [_] Anon 3487076 >all that shit you have to do come on now that's a pain in the fucking ass

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[_] dumb flash found on google engineer website from 2002 Anon 3468123 Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Anon 3468124 Now that's a flash I've not seen in a long time. A long time.
>> [_] Anon 3468139 nostalgia'd. also kinda sad that linux is still not improved much in 20 years, even if it's not THAT complicated it's still too complicated to use. think this flash could be older than 2002. the swf version is 5 and that was released in 2000. it's probably not exactly that old. did you find it on a blog where the author said that he made the flash or was it a repost?
>> [_] Anon 3468143 >># >executables in the exacutables directory, configuration files in the configuration files directory, libraries in the library directory >complicated Dude, wouldn't it be funny if system32 had 64-bit files and syswow64 32-bit files?
>> [_] Anon 3468200 >># what's even funnier is the label of 32 bit windows which is x86 which, if you really think about it, makes much more sense than labeling it just x32 I mean who would want THAT, right?
>> [_] Anon 3468206 >># >system32 wow, bruh, you DELET that right now!
>> [_] Anon 3468241 >># templeOS is better

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[_] Anon 3264314 k e r n e l p a n i c Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Anon 3264333 Linux is and always will be for server applications only. Uncle Bill knew what he was doing when he cornered the 'nix market.
>> [_] Anon 3264402 linux is more flexible and currently is more complicated to use than windows, but i feel that people should learn to use linux anyways, so that they can perhaps become more computer literate ... nvm, humanity has and always will be filled with people that don't really care and will not put in more effort than the minimum.
>> [_] Anon 3264411 >># >currently is more complicated Gee, I wonder why? Could it be that there are 700 conflicting flavors with no universal standard? No wait, I bet it's that nobody ever thought of making a graphical front end for 90% of the applications that run on YOUR flavor of Linux, since everyone knows it's far easier to remember and type out mile-long arcane command lines, rather than press a button on a UI... OH! No, I got it! It's every time the Wizards Who Keep The Kernel decide KDE is better for you than Gnome, so we're switching... haha! now switching something else that breaks everything!! Yeah, small wonder PC became master race. Enjoy your niche. Just don't forget to patch your kernels, and don't Wine too much when you absolutely NEED to run that Windows application.
>> [_] Anon 3264418 Unix 4 Life.
>> [_] Anon 3264432 I love the soundtrack, so relaxing :)
>> [_] Anon 3264451 >># It's trivial to download whatever graphical front-end is needed, but most applications use a very small subset of UI systems that aren't compatible with each other. Linux-is-a-command-based-OS is just a meme spread by morons that don't read up basic shit. These are the kinds of retards that whine about features in Chrome being botnet when you can disable literally every fucking one of them and have been able to do that since version 0.3. The only thing of significance that has led to shit breaking is systemd. The entire Linux community split down the middle because of that piece of shit, the ones that want broken shit and the ones that want reliable code behind their initialization. Fucking Harry Poetter be damned, he even flat-out ignored a rule of an application that could delete your fucking whole drive because the cunt NEVER READ THE FUCKING MANUAL. These are the kinds of people that shouldn't be using computers and should be using iPads. Note that I am on Windows right now. I used Linux from a live disc for 7 months when I was 15 with no issues. 256MB flash drive and 512MB flash drive were temp storage before I wrote it back to the DVD it booted from. It's trivial to understand unless you have the effort of a grape as >># said. Most humans are literal garbage. Throw them in the crusher.
>> [_] Anon 3264455 >># >and don't Wine too much when you absolutely NEED to run that Windows application. I got a chuckle.
>> [_] Anon 3264504 >># >It's trivial to download whatever graphical front-end is needed Except when it simply doesn't exist, which is fully 90% of the time. Linux demands a productivity user becomes a coder as well to build his own shit. Not even slightly efficient. Can a mechanic simply fix your car when he has to build each and every shop tool from the lift, to the the brake lathe, to the cash register? No, "come back in 6 months, I'll have your new tire on by then, ma'am". >Linux-is-a-command-based-OS is just a meme spread by morons that don't read up basic shit Yeah, them, and the people who have to do half of everything by way of those command lines... necessitating the coder-baker-candlestick maker scenario above. I've been involved in Linux since the 90's. The "Linux-is-a-command-based-OS is just a meme" meme is spread by a minority of self-entrenched "cooler than teh rest" devs and proof-of-concept jockey 1%-ers who know their shit, and have no idea how the entire rest of the normie world operates. Linux assumes Joe User is an aspie with no quotas, no need to interface with another organization, and infinite time to kajigger with the workflow. >The only (ROFLMAO!!) thing of significance that has led to shit breaking... >The entire Linux community split down the middle because of that piece of shit... Don't blame schisms on your favorite puching bag... the Community has split and forked as much as Linux itself since its beginnings, for the very niche-oriented reasons outlined above. It's a shame, Linux could have been a Unified Field, but it instead has evolved into many disparate genii and species, due to the fact that the breeders isolate themselves, just like in Nature. Darwinism In Technology. (cont'd)
>> [_] Anon 3264505 >># (cont'd) >Linux from a live disc for 7 months ... with no issues. 256MB flash drive and 512MB flash drive were temp storage before I wrote it back to the DVD it booted from... And that incredible streamlined-ness and stability is EXACTLY why Linux excels as a mission-critical server OS. In an automated configuration context, the server OS is transparent to the standardized protocol it handles. When (any particular flavor) is used like Windows as an office, factory, [insert production scenario here] the OS is -not- transparent to the context. And that is exactly where Linux, due to its hodge-podge, non-unified, build-it-yourself ethos fails. It could only ever work if there was only One Linux, and everything Just Worked out-of-the-box like Windows or Mac Maybe now you see the bigger picture. >themoreyouknow.gif
>> [_] Anon 3264506 >># >># >># >># Install FreeBSD.
>> [_] Anon 3264508 >># >FreeBSD Free, as in "Pay With Your Soul" :^)
>> [_] Anon 3264509 >># >># Don't know what Linux you used, but 90% of the time I've never had any issues. That 10% of the time was a Google away. And probably less than 1% of the time it was a "wontfix" issue because artificial ageing and scarcity. >># Also this.
>> [_] Anon 3264515 >># FreeBSD will give you ticket to your personally imaginary digital hell and you free to choice your rapist include nekofutasuccubus.;)
>> [_] Anon 3264517 >># >Don't know what Linux you used Pretty much all off them. >># I keed a little

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[_] Anon 3259961 Why doesn't 4chan have linux? It's the villain of the internet after all. Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Anon 3259972 what the literal fuck do you mean why doesn't 4chan have linux?
>> [_] Anon 3259976 >># *run on aren't you pedantic
>> [_] Anon 3260010 *GNU/linux Also >Beowulf cluster o i am laffin
>> [_] Anon 3260011 >A flash animation bragging about using free software
>> [_] Anon 3260078 >># It's better than the competition of non-free software.
>> [_] Anon 3260084 >># I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring 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.
>> [_] Anon 3260097 >># 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.
>> [_] Anon 3260098 >># Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it. You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument. Last, I'd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD?
>> [_] Anon 3260102 >># If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this: Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag. Thanks for listening.

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[_] Become A Supervillan Anon 3258042
>> [_] Anon 3258046 >># Install FreeBSD.

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[_] why aren't you a super villan yet? Anon 3257392
>> [_] Anon 3257396 >implying i'm not typing this on a pc running linux
>> [_] Anon 3257416 Do you think supervillains prefer Void or Arch (as in nemesis)?
>> [_] Anon 3257502 This is great.
>> [_] Anon 3257505 >># The inner sanctum's defences run arch and the doomsday devices run void.
>> [_] Anon 3257507 >># I'm all about open sores too. >># I'm typing this on Red Hat Enterprise running on a Windows 10 virtual machine, which is running on a VM on FreeBSD, which is being simulated on a DEC PDP-11. Git gud. (also my new favorite flash)

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[_] Anon 2590816

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[_] Anon 2577889 Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Anon 2577904 too bad linux is shit
>> [_] Anon 2577924 evil super villain here. can confirm
>> [_] Anon 2577938 >slashdot.swf
>> [_] Anon 2577941 >># top kek
>> [_] Anon 2578048 blow your fucking nose jesus christ.
>> [_] Anon 2578061 >># lol, you use it more then you think.
>> [_] Anon 2578086 >># >getting that tux sticker swag for CS:GO yesterday >realising iv been using Linux for 5 years now >realising I havent touched a terminal on my desktop machine since I used Linux Mint >realising its the year of the linux desktop >its over >Microsoft is finished.
>> [_] Anon 2578103 I'd just like to interject for a moment.
>> [_] Anon 2578105 >># >implying NORPs will ever use Linux keep dreaming bud
>> [_] Anon 2578108 >># My Grandma uses Lubuntu because she has so many problems with Windows 7, and I have 3 friends who also play vidya gaems on GNU/Linux. The freedom is coming and it will be glorious.
>> [_] Anon 2578110 >># >grandma and 3 friends use it >therefore the majority of people will use it in the future Nope
>> [_] Anon 2578113 >># I never implied it would be used my the majority of people, its definitely going to be bigger then it is though. Personal antidotes dont prove shit yea but then again if you told me "No one I know uses it!" then again that means nothing. Dedicated Netflix client just around the bend btw B)
>> [_] Anon 2578118 >># I'm not saying no one uses it, just that I don't see it becoming popular given that the majority of consumers will stick with Microsoft unless it becomes completely unusable or vastly inferior because it's something they are already familiar with.
>> [_] Anon 2578119 >># >personal antidotes
>> [_] Anon 2578121 >># I thought the same thing, tell someone about how its all open and then sit them down in front of the cinnamon and its amazing how many people I know who will consider (and are) dual booting >># Sorry jimmy
>> [_] Anon 2578124 >># >The cinnamon Fuck my grammer is not very so good today
>> [_] Anon 2578125 >># Not many people are going to be sat down and introduced to it in such a way. They also probably couldn't be fucked to figure out something different.

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[_] Anon 2575784 Marked for deletion (old).
>> [_] Anon 2575944 classic. this has got to be from 2002 at least

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[_] Anonymous06/17/12(Sun)17:55No.1701132 /f/ is not just for XXX