/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Why aren't you using a fully libre GNU/Linux operating system? Do you hate freedom?

http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637352
Just play Nethack over and over again.

[Anonymous No.]

I'd like to, but I can't be arsed to tweak WINE everytime I want to play a videogame
>>>/g/

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637350

I use Red Hat 6.0, nerd.

Step up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637355
lol midnite

[Anonymous No.]

Using Arch Linux

If you're going to use a GNU/Linux distribution, don't use Arch Linux.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637355
More like step down.

It sucks

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637352
Don't play video games that don't respect your freedom.

[Anonymous No.]

How do I become GNU ?

[Anonymous No.]

I don't really give a shit about freedom.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637363
Why not?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637367
I'm willing to give up my freedom for entertaining, but thank you.

[Anonymous No.]

I use debian-sid, with nonfree stuff....

I can't go full gnew-sence, but I really love Richard Stallman and his ideals more and more. I'm probably going only be using linux for everything with as little as possible nonfree software, and just keep a windows machine around strictly as a media center for watching videos and playing emulators.

This has mainly been brought on by an extreme disgust for many laws, advertisements, people threatening me with laws all the time my entire life to force me into doing things they should not be allowed to do with my body, societal doctrines, just everything. It's been building up and causing me to get fucking disgusted with everything, and I think using just linux and thinking a bit more like my freedom loving pal Stallman would help me feel better about it.

Muh vendetta.

>>10637363

I've used Arch and I liked it, especially the package manager. What's wrong with it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637376
>>10637388
As a general default I don't suggest anyone use Arch Linux.

Don't get me wrong though. There's a reason why I'm still using it--I actually love it.

But if you don't know anything about Linux (most people don't) and are easily frustrated about computers (most people are) then it's "difficult" to use.

That and because most people who know what they're doing use it, they can be condescending about it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637407
chan pls
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[Anonymous No.]

>>10637407

Well of course. You should have specified that.

(Can someone post the version of this image with her saying about he she loves everyone in /jp/ and wants to marry them?

[Anonymous No.]

installing gentoo seems hard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjGSMUep6_4

[Anonymous No.]

i installed babbies first linux distro onto my dads old dinosaur mac

i dont even know what to do with it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637350

Debian on the desktop, Gentoo on the servers.

Tiling WM with a trackball and mech makes it a great programming envitroment.

I don't like the freedom as an ideal, but because I like having complete control and access to my OS, plus OS is a better development process. I'll use non-free software, but only if there's not alternative means.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637363
Why do you hate freedom?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637426
Why do you hate freedom?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637388
>I use debian-sid, with nonfree stuff
Same here. I'm thinking about switching to Fedora but I've never used yum...

[Anonymous No.]

I'm using Xubuntu
vrms reports 10 non-free packages on my system, which is 0.4% of it. That doesn't count not using linux-libre
I'm such a pig.

I also tried Arch. It was fun but I like using easy distros even if I know what I'm doing.

[Anonymous No.]

I have enough trouble playing games and using wine on a mac, i don't need even more headache to have a hipster OS.

And because i just know a couple of you will say something, if it were up to me i'd have a windows machine but this mac laptop was the card i was dealt.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637483
Can't you just install Windows on it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637483
bootcamp

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637483

You know you can install windows on that Mac right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637483
Why not install Windows?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637489
>>10637490
>>10637491
>>10637493

bill gates pls

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637497
Just trying to be helpful by telling the 2kool4skool phrat boy how to take it easy

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637449
>Same here. I'm thinking about switching to Fedora but I've never used yum...

Don't. Fedora is a clusterfuck of bad design. Yum is an extremely slow resource hog which can't manage packages for more than one month without distribution-breaking problems.

Fedora has a large number of 'security' add-on built in the system, like the security module SELinux, which make ridiculously difficult to do anything.

Fedora is the worse distribution I've ever worked with, and I've worked with SUSE, Mandriva, Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Mint, and various non-linux distributions such as OpenBSD.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637501
Well, shit. I'm fairly new to Linux and I wanted to try a distro with newer packages that's easier to use than Arch, so I assumed that Fedora might suit my needs. Obviously I'd install it in a VM to try it out a bit before abandoning Debian, but I might try Arch first if it's really that bad.

[Anonymous No.]

pls tell me reasons why i should install linux

pls don't say freedom

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637574
You shouldn't.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637574

If you don't know why you would want it then...

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637574
You can have that. Cube vision

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637574
So you can be a hipster and feel superior to the stupid, uncool idiots who use mac and windows.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637608
>be a hipster and feel superior to the stupid, uncool idiots who use [...]
i already do this with japanese porn games

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637574
>please don't say freedom
Well that's one.
People say it's better for coding, and it runs better. I can't speak for the coding bit since I don't code, but I do feel like everything runs better on Linux --and I'm pretty sure my Firefox uses less memory in Linux-- but that could easily just be a placebo affect. It's customizable if you're into that kind of thing. And it can either be light weight enough to run quickly on a machine from the 80s or come installed with everything you'll need depending on your distro. Also, it's very stable. It tends to crash less than Windows and if you want you can have it never restart since you don't have to restart for any kind of update (you natively have to restart for kernel updates, but you can get Ksplice for that if you don't care about freedoms) However, the truth of the matter is if you don't already know why you should use Linux then it doesn't matter to you as a user and it just comes down to personal preference. Oh yeah and there's the whole safety from obscurity thing, since Linux has such a small Desktop market share there's fewer malicious programs written for it, but you shouldn't get malicious programs on Windows if you don't click on "hot teenage girl.jpg.exe" or "lonely housewives.jpg.exe"

[Anonymous No.]

>>10637707

>but that could easily just be a placebo affect.

It's not. ext4 has much better file I/O than NTFS, and has support for ZFS (I think). he OS itself takes far less resources too depending on what your setup is. Either way it's faster than Windows, and way faster than OSX.