Do people here actually use linux or is it just a meme?

do people here actually use linux or is it just a meme?

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It's just a meme.

Meme only
I use W8.1

I use Gentoo exclusively on my laptop and desktop. My gf uses Windows 10 on her laptop and it's always very frustrating whenever I have to fix it, Windows has really gone down the shitter recently

>I use Gentoo

This

>uses Gentoo

At least use a good DE

I use it for my work machine. As in coding. I still have a windows desktop.

Vim in the command line is nice. And overall linux puts your closer to the metal and more in control.

I used vim and compile without taking my hands off the keyboard. I can ssh right from the same windows or setup a user account on my machine with a command that sets permissions and let someone ssh into my machine for pair programming.

Overall windows really can compare for any kind of coding.

Dont know about Macs never seen anyone with one who did terminal work.

>Overall windows really can't compare for any kind of coding.

>I used vim and compile without taking my hands off the keyboard. I can ssh right from the same windows or setup a user account on my machine with a command that sets permissions and let someone ssh into my machine for pair programming.

In English, please?

Windows 10.

Used Xubuntu on my laptop for quite some time, but went back to Windows fairly recently due to the lack of software support and the fact that a significant amount of things just work on Windows.

Yes, they use linux. Pic related.

No, no one here actually programs

Debian and Ubuntu Server for servers, Mint for personal laptop and workstation and work.
I still keep Win7 that came with my laptop around. Used it to pirate Stellaris before buying it and playing it on Mint.

Vim, a text editor that can have a gui but does not have to. You can just create a file with the touch command and start editing it immediately in the terminal all text.

Since I am in the teriminal I can get out of vim or back in with a few key presses. So if I want to do something else I can be out of vim in a second. SSH lets me log into other machines or other machines log into me. Pair programming is where one programmer is doing the job and another comes along behind. Editing to fix the mistakes. This allows the first to move very quickly without backtracking constantly to repair anything. Old method is to have one guy looking over the other guys shoulder but with linux and vim another person can be logged into my computer also editing the file.

Also Vim can be modded to hell and back. There are addons that let you do these things without even leaving vim.

Overall I dont know how programmers work in anything but linux. Even webdevs and scripters.

I don't use a DE, they are completely useless

doesn't the ISS use linux?

Ubuntu on my laptop and desktop. Desktop dual boots with Windows 7.

Although I haven't really used my T420 in forever since getting my Chromebook, so there's that.

Probably. Linux is in alot of things especially stripped versions in embedded devices. Things that you dont really think about as computers but have a chip inside.

It's a meme. Sup Forums is made up of men age 16-36. These men play video games.

They will not give up their vidya just to protect their porn a little better.

Everybody goes through a linux phase or three. But they always run back to Windows.

android phones are technically on linux

After 2 years of dual booting I could never go back to just windows.

>he posts from an android phone to an apache server "Who uses Linux?"

I used Linux for 17 years. I did small betrayal with Mac OS X and Windows XP, but now I'm loyal.

Long live Linux.

Kill la fucking kill yourself you fucking retard homo shit and lurk more.

If you don't know what vim or ssh is, you're too young to be on an 18+ site, and every other term was plain fucking English

Designated shitting board is that way

No one wants windows 10, Pajeet.

>2012+4
>posting shig man

I use ubuntu :)
No windows at all
But everyone with an android phone uses linux
And everyone with an Iphone uses Unix

>PC is slow as fuck
>perform reinstall on it
>ram and cpu usage through rough
>cant do shit
>cant even go to image folder without slowing down like fuck
>decide to install linux on old PC
>blast debian into the motherfucker
>prepare and configure it for use
>mfw it works fucking fast
>mfw minimal RAM use
My pc with an i3 and 4gbs of ram now has better performance than my main laptop with an i7 and 8gigs of ram running windows10.

>mfw as I realized Windows is the real meme
there is literally 0 reason not to switch to GNU/Linux

whos that semen demon

I use ubuntu 14.04 (going to update to 16 soon) as my main OS.
I do have a Win10 on dual boot but i barely use it anymore.

I don't play much games nowadays but the few I am interested are made by Paradox and their games are available for all platforms

>an i7 and 8gigs of ram running windows10
You discovered the truth user. WIndows is a laming OS.

I switched from Win10 a week ago and installed Antergos.

My last attempt to switch was at least 6 years ago, but I was not employed as a programmer back then and still studying media-related shit. So this time, I'm fairly confident it's permanent.

As much as I like 10's UI, KDE leaves little to be desired and the few things that I'm really missing are far outweighed by the flexibility I get elsewhere.

Dev stuff is really much more natural. But the most important thing is that I finally got rid of that godawful updater.

If I had to name one single thing that drove me away from Windows, it's the updater of Win10, which would constantly install random crap drivers that break my shit.

Now I guess I'm not entirely safe from the occasional error using Arch, but at least pacman won't install some random driver for my hardware, overwriting the one I specifically chose for good reasons.

Are you on linux on your desktop now?

Yeah I do

Sup Forums's servers run OSX

Meme

Been using linux as my host machine before coming to Sup Forums, newfriend

No, I've never used that shitnux on the desktop. It was bad in the 90's and hasn't progressed.
Solaris -> OS X masterrace.

>linux for porn

Bruh

here. Funny how I ran back to windows only to realise it's a piece of shit. Now I contain windows in a VM.

>But they always run back to Windows.
I had a Windows 7 install for all of five or six months.Never used Windows before or after.Linux and (pre-iPhone era) OS X were always so much better.

Experience w/ UNIX & GNU/Linux is a very usefull skill. I don't think NEETS would understand that though.

>Self contradicting one liner
You must be a comedy genius

>do people here actually use linux or is it just a meme?
I use Linux at work. At home I just use my company-issued Macbook Pro.

You're not even remotely clever

True but I admire your comedy skills

NORMIES GET OUT
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I have a recent trash picked Mac Pro tower, dual CPU slots. Maxed it out and I run Mint on it, with Windows 7 in a virtual machine for mah games that don't run on Linux. I am mostly a console peasant anyway.

Actually, I apologize. I thought you were calling me a NEET

Linux is kind of shitty really. None of the things that made Linux so popular have anything to do with it being a good kernel or a moderately well-made operating system.
>It's (mostly) POSIX compliant
So it's basically a cheap unix clone
>It's GPL V2
That's nice for freetards and is the reason for its success, but something being GPL has no bearing on whether it is a good piece of software
>It came at the right moment, before HURD and while BSD was still in legal battles
Has literally no bearing on whether it is good software
>It has (relatively) good driver and device support
Only because it's popular, this is circular

Face it, Linux users are just using the shitty unix clone that happened to be at the right place at the right time to become popular. Even if 'the year of the linux desktop' came, it wouldn't matter to them, because linux users would hate linux as much as they hate windows or OS X right now. If you don't believe me, look at IBM. Everyone hated IBM back in the 80s and early 90s, but now that IBM is no longer ubiquitous, you'll see faggots stroking their thinkpads and IBM PC keyboards (Terrible standard by the way, and the reason we still have useless keys such as scroll lock and pause/break on modern keyboards), longing back to the days when the big blue ruled the market. Linux users are literally the hipsters of the computing words, who will never be satisfied with anything if more than 1% of the population uses it. That's the reason there is one windows, one OS X and five billion linux distros.

>the reason there is one windows, one OS X and five billion linux distros.

Because the former are companies trying to sell a product or sell you to advertisers

>1% of the population
It's easy to pirate paid softwares for desktops

It's also because the Windows and OS X platforms are more focused than the Linux communities which are always forking things from other things which are forked from other things...which too are forked.

That is my biggest beef with Linux, it's so unfocused. The fact that there is a multitude of desktop environments is a pain in the ass enough. Linux needs focus.

>Bawww!! I hate having options!!!!

>I get to choose between a shit sandwich or a turdburger

I hate shitty options, that's for sure

>So why are you using Windows then?

Because it sucks less, moran.

Big words coming form poo OS users

>oh look a tired meme showing my xenophobia

I'm running UNIX shit-for-brains.

>My life is so empty that I pass my timetweaking a useless timesink OS to feel important

youtu.be/JNM4atakanI

Yeah but Android actually works and people use it.

>using gladly the rootkit formely know as X.org

they really do?

no wonder why this shit is full of faggots

I use it for pretty much everything.

Even at work I do most of my productive things on a Linux VM.

And random downage

I use Ubuntu, and that shit is way more cumbersome than Windows

Only have a chromebook tho, so the alternative is much worse

I'm a guy that uses a laptop just to browse facebook, do some college stuff and uses youtube and spotify.
It has an i3 4th gen processor and 4gb of ram. I bought a ssd recently.
When I started using it, the OS was a W7 and then I got a 8.1 and then upgraded to Windows 10. It always had a lot of bloat. It always had some minor problems that made me unhappy when using the machine, from time to time the machine somewhat started clogging and dragging itself to do simple stuff.
Then I installed Mint on it and god, FOR ME it's a whole new experience. It never felt like it was a slow or overloaded machine ever again. It's running smoothly and I like how I can twerk a lot of stuff on it.
Using a computer feels like fun again and I'm really not looking forward using windows ever again.
I think the meme was always the Windows and you guys just got stuck with it because it was the OS you started using when you first got your hands into a computer. Besides the whole marketing stuff that messes people's heads.
Linux is a more complete experience, even for me, a regular guy. I can't imagine how you, the programming and tech geniuses, can still use windows.

> I can't imagine how you, the programming and tech geniuses, can still use windows.

And this is where I realized that this post was bait.

>moran

Is that poo language for something?

Did people here drive cars or is that just a meme.

If you have heard of linux on here then OMG, people use linux.

>Asking retarding questions which common sense, general assumption, and general IQ levels, can all be the answer to this.

your newfaggotry is showing.

Kill you're self

I don't think it's bait
Every opinion on Sup Forums that is different from yours is "bait"
For fucking sake stop it

Le oldfag is mad XDDDD

>I think the meme was always the Windows and you guys just got stuck with it because it was the OS you started using when you first got your hands into a computer.
It's called baby duck syndrome.

>programming and tech geniuses
>on Sup Forums

Explain you're self

I've used several OS' Started with Amiga OS, went to Mac for a small bit, and used windows XP for years till I got interested in Linux. Used it till I went to college when I had to have windows to run software for a class (didn't have a powerful enough machine for virtualization. Pentium 4s were not very good at that.

What shit degree did you get that forced you to use Windows?

Is this weak ass bait what passes as acceptable shitposting on Sup Forums?

>Pentium 4s

You lucky bastard. I had (I kid you not) a Thinkpad with a Pentium MMX in it, woefully underpowered in the P4 era. It was good enough for learning C, basic browsing (early youtube worked at 2-5 fps), and listening to music. Good memories, my first laptop.

People on Sup Forums PAYS to shitpost. Why would anyone spend a dime on an OS if all you do is masturbate to furry porn, traps and watch anime?

Pentium 4 in 2007-2008 sucked when everyone was using Core 2 processors.

>54606574
Teaching. I had to use specific software for certain exercises. I asked for a linux version and the person looked at me like I had three heads.

>Pentium 4 in 2007-2008

I can assure you that a Pentium MMX sucked more in 2005-2006.

My girlfriend has you and I beat.

She was using up till last year a G3 iMac running Tiger for design work.

>She was using up till last year a G3 iMac running Tiger for design work.

Ah, what a coincidence. I'm planning to buy an old mac form that era, just to run some useful old programs that have no modern equivalent.

They aren't bad for that. I am using her old iMac to run OS 9 which I have found to be a decent replacement for a Win9x machine for that era of PC games since most games came with the Mac version on the same disc.

I actually used Gentoo as my desktop, and for servers, for a few years.

These days I use Windows because Steam games, and a MacBook because of its god-tier keyboard. And because its technically Unix/BSD, it has a decent command-line, so I can do shell scripting and other stuff.

I also still use Linux (and FreeBSD) a lot, but I only use them for servers now, where I do maintenance or developent by SSH-ing from Windows or my MacBook, and getting jiggy with the likes of tmux and vim.

The distro I use these days is Fedora. No real reason to choose it. Just wanted something that had a binary package manager and decent stability. Occasionally Debian too.

Linux looks like it's been getting preeeetty good on the desktop in recent years, but meh, I'm happy with Mac OS on the desktop. It's a good OS and has never really failed me. Maybe I'll use Linux on the desktop down the line, but not until I can actually play games on it.

Have you looked up "play on linux?" it works pretty well for me.

Dual booting, but I never use windows. It's just there.

Meh, PlayOnLinux is just a wine wrapper or something.

wine is great and all, but I'm done messing around with it for games. Sometimes things don't work at all, or have weird issues, and overall I just can't depend on it when I want to play what I want to play.

Believe me, friend. I have been an ultra neckbeard and used to enjoy the shit out of troubleshooting and figuring-out how stuff worked. Nowadays, I don't give a shit, and I am happy with Windows becase because I can play games on it, and can SSH from it when I need to get shit done.

Wine works better with older software than newer ones due to complexity anyway.

To answer your question 100 percent honestly I used to use Windows 7 for a long time, went to Windows 10, didn't like the bullshit spying "features" that it came with and I couldn't stand the dumb search feature that was cripplingly worse than 7's search and it was using 30 percent of CPU alone, I was looking for alternatives, I considered a hackintosh but saw it as too childish, Sup Forums told me about GNU so I looked at the customization features on it, I loved it, installed Debian minimal and installed openbox and I honestly don't think I can go back, it doesn't even use up half of 1 percent of my CPU and I made my desktop look super "edgy" so I guess I like it a lot, can't switch back because of MS's dogshit Win 7 download thing on their site, I'm fucking not downloading 8 or getting 10 again and I don't wanna go back to the horrible days of NTFS, fucking fragmentation errors up the wazoo, so yes I unironically use GNU and can't switch back even if I wanted to

No, it runs on Apple machines that were gifted to moot but the softwae is BSD.

I run linux on my home server with plex, media share (works like a NAS), website and RSS Auto torrenters like couchpotato and sickrage.

I'd like to say that I use linux for anything else, but I don't.

It's a meme. I fell for the meme a few years ago but I've since wisened up.

My problem with windows is that it is so fucking slow.

When I mean slow I mean shit like adding a user, something which takes 1 to 2 seconds in linux, literally takes 5-10m+ in windows when you're bootng up because "gotta get that desktop environment ready for you ;)" and retarded shit like that. Sure it is understandable that windows has to copy some files and stuff, but that shouldn't fucking take 10 minutes.

OP, you dumb faggot.

People use Linux in business all the time. It runs most webservers. Android is base don it. Nearly all academic and scientific super computer clusters run some form of linux.

Are you this much of a fucking nub or are you a paid shill for some evil American company?

I think he meant on the desktop since not a lot of Sup Forums users have supercomputers. Think about it.

the answer is no.

>evil american companies hate free labor.
Kek.
linuxfoundation.org/about/members

No,we play with it and keep it distant so windows doesn't think we are cheating...

I really want to install ubuntu 16.04 or mint 18 but there so much I don't know and can go wrong,maybe I just lack the confidence,I'v taken apart consoles and computers plenty of times but software stresses me the fuck out.