>sick of Windows 10 being a hog botnet >decide to try Linux Mint >it looks like shit and burns up my laptop hotter than Windows 10 ever did >no really, it looks worse than Windows XP >decide to try Windows 7 >my laptop runs cool, no botnet running >everything looks nice and will update for another 4 years
Who Windows 7 here?
I'm sorry, but Linux is not ready yet.
Google needs to create a Linux-based desktop OS because all of those shitty distros are terrible next to even 20 year old versions of Windows.
>tries THEE pleb distro >linux is not ready yet guise
Alexander Thomas
>no botnet running
Do we tell him, guys?
Gabriel Adams
install gentoo
Landon Price
Install Gentoo with drivers.
Levi Rivera
Get Debian or Fedora and then pick your desktop environment like everyone else. Linux gives you a lot more freedom than Windows, use it to your advantage instead of expecting a pre-baked environment that you are forced to become comfortable with.
This is what normies call being a "power user" (not being lazy)
Isaac Long
How about you actually use drivers instead of using your CPU for rendering?
nvm, actually, I am pretty happy that you stay where you are, wincuck. That way I do not need to tell you shit that you knew if you actually rtfm
Ian Nelson
>linux mint That shit stinks.
Josiah Hughes
tfw just installed ubuntu for babbies first linux its... fun : )
Nathan Adams
>Linoox looks bad
Anthony Bailey
>it looks good when you strip out all the ugly UI shit
Fuck off, retard. Loonix looks like shit.
Owen Smith
>All of this asspain over being told the obvious
Leo Lewis
OP is not being honest.
Thomas Cook
Desktop background is what looks good.
Andrew Anderson
download a mainline ubuntu kernel and install it with dpkg -i
Eli Gonzalez
Why do lintards ALWAYS steal everything?
Parker Brown
>linux looks like shit Only for pajeets that can't set it up. Linux always looks like you want, if you are normal person.
Jason King
>implying that iShit invented GUI
Jaxon Cruz
>not realising Linux did it first
Daniel Miller
this looks bad
Nolan Moore
>Linux GNU, sorry. What you reffering as linux in fact GNU.
William Lee
If Apple didn't invent the graphical GUI interface then who did?
Kayden Bell
Xerox
Kayden Bell
>ITT: Retards who don't understand that GNU/Linux has multiple choices of DE available, unlike Windows.
Colton Sanchez
Only distro that does not burn your laptop is manjaro xfce but after updates it fucks up too. Also it is really unstable.
Angel Russell
Windows has multiple choices for DE too. Just nobody needs to use them because the default is good enough for 99.99% people to just get on with other tasks like work and entertainment rather than sitting at their machine 18 hours a day staring at wallpaper and fucking with various DE's and configs/themes because nothing else works right.
Angel Flores
>graphical GUI interface >graphical graphical user interface interface
Robert Torres
the people from whom Apple stole it
Gabriel Sanders
Distro?
Lincoln King
>and will update for the next 4 years Funny, i only need about 1 minute to update with Linux.
Grayson Thomas
Debian or Arch?
Joshua Hill
>Ancient or unstable?
lol no
Nicholas Lee
Apple actually licensed the xerox star gui with Apple stock options as payment & made the apple lisa.
Brody Bennett
>>decide to try Linux Mint >Linux Mint
I kinda agree with you OP, but you picked the worst distro there is.
Christopher Torres
>you picked the worst distro there is.
you'd say that about any distro I pick unless it was some autism distro.
Jack Brown
Fucking lost it
Michael Long
Nah, let him believe that... he seems to be so in peace
Kevin Ross
too true
Easton Reyes
that looks like shit tho only the background is nice
Lucas Adams
well what do you recommend then
Ryan Moore
macOS
Joseph Butler
Ouch dubs speak truth
Liam Hernandez
>no really, it looks worse than Windows XP
Then change it. You can make it look like whatever you want. There are skins that make it look exactly like Windows 7 if that's the kind of design you like.
Thomas Davis
No. Ubuntu is good and noob friendly. There's pretty much no reason to use anything else for 99% of people.
Joshua Jones
>those massive sight-impaired size fonts >jittery letter-spacing on the time >abuse of pixel borders and drop shadows on the taskbar icons makes it look like someone punched the screen >backwards/double drop shadow on the taskbar >random gaps everywhere Just hire a fucking designer already you FOSStards
Thomas Flores
kek
Ian Myers
xubuntu
Jordan Martinez
So they can end up looking as disgusting as Windows 10 or OSX?
John Johnson
Xubuntu.
Nolan Miller
If you don't value design, yes, of course.
Jayden Stewart
>my product's entire existence must be defined by how much i petulantly hate its competition
Hudson Anderson
What are for favorite XFCE themes?
Ayden Gutierrez
My primary OS is Windows. I just hate the look of Windows 8+10, and OSX starting with Yosemite itself just looks like a mediocre Gnome theme. Maybe not terrible, but very mediocre.
Christopher Wilson
GOLD O L D
Dylan Perez
>Ubuntu is good
this is what Sup Forums has become
Easton Miller
>several hours of unpaid labor to rice out a shitty DE versus >3 clicks of a mouse to make everything look good
I'm not a winfag, but linux DEs are all seriously shit and their vanilla configs are abysmal
Plasma 5 might be the only one that looks and works any good out of the box. Everything else is hot garbage because all of it is literally forks of an ancient relic of a DE, and if it isn't shit then it has shitty bugs (Cinnamon crashes on VNC/xrdp) or looks like it belongs on a tablet and has awful UX (Gnome3).
Jonathan James
>Google needs to create a Linux-based desktop OS
this
Xavier Cooper
I need windows for work. Got tired of 10's shit throughout the year. Was swapping my laptop's miserable 64 gig ssd for 250, figured I'd finally get a better OS.
Got Win 7, I don't know how I lived before. Not to mention that if your pc came with 8 or 10 pre-installed, you can >legally downgrade to 7 if you call up MS. Good stuff
Hudson Reed
I installed Linux on my Mac and all I had to due was search the package manager for mac fan
I think I searched google for another fan daemon
imy laptop is actually cold
Sebastian Lee
>what is chrome os
Owen Thomas
so im building a new pc and i was going to install mint on it. but i see you guys shitposting all about mint. is it really that bad or are you guys so memed out your autism cant handle anything but whats the "most bestest"
give me the honest truth. is mint bad or is a casual like me going to be just fine
Dylan Cox
>used multi-monitor setup so long single monitor is choking >sick of 10 and MS's shit in general >go back to 7 >all is well >except that since it's not designed for multimonitor system in the first place or it's a (intentional) bug in drivers drivers or what not refresh rates between monitors go desync and playing videos or games in either monitor will lag/lose frames >go to 8.1 At least it's not 10
Cameron Gomez
Why do normies constantly complain about GNU/Linux? Do they think we care about their opinion?
If you don't program and aren't interested in operating systems, GNU/Linux isn't for you.
Cooper Gomez
I'll tell you the honest truth user. Linux is the kernel, and your typical distro is nothing more than just different configs on top of the same kernel.
With that in mind, it literally does not matter much if you use Linux Mint or Arch or even Gentoo. One distro isn't going to magically make Linux a better experience because as I said, it's just a different package of software on top of the same base.
With all that said, Linux Mint is the only distro really worth using for normies and casuals which is like 80% of all computer users for just want to post on imageboards, use Facebook, and torrent Chinese cartoons to watch.
Unless you have something like an iPhone, you'll be fine with Mint. Honestly.
Jayden Richardson
...
Kevin Johnson
Yea, Linux is pretty boring to talk about.
Justin Hall
I've noticed fps lag in monitors that aren't the "main" monitor. Is there truly no way around it on 7?
Ayden Watson
>GNU/Linux
Hudson Ward
Unless you can backport WDDM 1.1(win8.1) or WDDM2(win10), no
Justin Fisher
nah fuck that guy. im the user whos building a new pc. i wanna know cause if linux mint is legitimately bad ill avoid it. but it looks pretty user friendly. and im no computer guru
considering im a normie casual and from what you said ill probably be just fine with mint. thanks bro
Bentley Gonzalez
There's no real problem with it. It's just that Mint's existence is completely pointless as it's literally just Ubuntu with a custom wallpaper and more non-free software. May as well use Ubuntu with a DE of choice, you won't even feel the difference and you'll have removed an extra maintainer from the equation.
Luke Bell
>WDDM 1.1(win8.1) I mean WDDM 1.2
Isaac Bennett
true
Josiah Sanders
I'd recommend Kubuntu
Anything KDE is probably an easier transition for a Windows user.
Zachary Moore
Why all wincucks feel the urge to shitpost their recent failure in tech?
Gabriel Cooper
Try OS X
Juan Richardson
>implying that open source is competing with proprietary garbage >not even understanding that we are playing an entirely different game >being this dense >glhf
Joshua James
The GNU Richard Stallman.
Connor Campbell
It's just important to not allow the insane amount of choice overwhelm you. As long as you know that it does not matter what distro you use, because by the nature of Linux, you can always mod a basic distro like Ubuntu or Mint to your liking, or do what said and use on of the flavors of Ubuntu.
Mint is pretty much the only distro that matters, really.
Jordan Gonzalez
It's stable, at least more stable than fucking w10 or debian testing.
Logan Hernandez
>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!
Gabriel Evans
Whelp
Fug :-DDDD
Brayden Adams
enjoy your screen tearing
Carter Davis
Ark dark with numix circle icons
Blake Davis
I will never use Loonix
Ryan Robinson
>not liking the goat OS
Bentley Rogers
I think we've found the secret beind the Mint hate
buttmad Ubuntu users who are furious that their distro is 5th popular on distrowatch and mainly used by africans who understand what Unbuntu means and need free OS
Thomas Gomez
I get bored of W10, too. I want to install a Linux Distro, which Sup Forums recommends me. I tried with Bunsenlabs, but for some reason I am not able to boot it w/ USB.
Bonus point for comfy looking and light desktop like Bunsenlabs.
Brody Howard
>what is compton
David Harris
Ignore these retards. The only good distro for normies is Ubuntu. Sorry stallman, but having botnet = quality. As long as Ubuntu prevailing means we get more binaries for the Linux kernel, I'm all for it. t. Gentoo user for 1 year now
Eli Gomez
You're a retard
Jack Bennett
Ok guys can you or can you not play games on lunix? Is there some sort of way you can run the games in a bootcamp esque environment?
>instead of expecting a pre-baked environment that you are forced to become comfortable with. sounds like youre autistic and prefer to use a broken mess that can't be used for anything instead of just learning existing practices
Kayden Evans
The no games argument is not true anymore. Windows is the best os for gaming mostly due to most game developers are trained into developing for it with microsoft's closed APIs, so the simple process of porting a game that was developed for windows to any other platform will affect negatively the performance of the game. This with the fact that the marketshare is small compared to windows there's hardly an incentive at the moment to optimize for linux, making look as if the platform were worse for games than windows when in fact to flip the situation you'll need to change the idiosyncrasies on the industry itself.
The fact though is that the situation on linux is not nearly the same than two years ago and now those who prefer linux over windows now can play games on it, helping to break the vicious circle, but still there's a lot of things to do for linux to compete in the gaming side. I anyone wants for this to change i recommend to play the games you can on linux when possible and ask for linux ports.
I notice some people doesn't want's for this to happen but if that the case let me ask (not directed specifically to the person i'm replying): how are any of you benefited in a meaningful way with the current situation? because i consider that keeping the statu quo just to have a tool to win an argument on what OS is better is not a meaningful thing. how having less options and practically being locked to MS products benefits you?
Landon Carter
5 rupees have been deposited in you're jar in the loo.
Caleb Cooper
Customization options on windows are much worse than on linux, that's an obvious fact. When you can customize windows is a PITA. Why do you need to call names in order to sell the lack of a feature as a feature?
Jeremiah Brooks
Holy fuck you need to kill yourself that is horrible.