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Jeremiah Perez
stallman is not a philosophically pure person. he follows his ideals when convenient, and ignores them or slightly alters them when the conflict isn't worth it.
stallman is an egoist in denial, afraid of admitting that he just wants some fucking source code instead of a world where he has to rely on other people because he knows he wouldn't get it that way.
his system has some practical merits but his attempts at creating moral justifications are completely pathetic and nonsensical. how low do you have to be to have to make up bullshit "oughts" when you can just say "it would be fucking better"?
Nathaniel Price
Stop already. We hate shills.
Jackson Jenkins
Linus writes beautiful code. He has published some side projects that he wrote all on his own and the code is just wonderful. He also lives in the real world while still maintaining his open source ideals and supporting himself through his work.
RMS is basically a homeless loser who hasn't made any real contributions in the last 20 years. He is still super butthurt that Linux beet HURD (but hey, HURD just got basic sound support in 2016!) and basically tries to claim Linux because Linus used GCC and the GNU coreutils. He survives on the charity of others and speaking engagements where he spouts his insane, paranoid, philosophy. Basically he won't be happy until all the programmers are homeless hackers like him and all the companies are shut down. How people are supposed to support themselves and their families in that scenario aren't things he has to deal with because he is basically a permanent grad student. He does make some good points about privacy, but for him, there is no middle ground. Anything that may reduce your privacy even the slightest bit (like movie recommendations on Netflix) is evil according to him, and must be destroyed. In a lot of ways he show classic signs of mental splitting, which is a classic symptom of mental illness. To top it off, when he does write code, he does so in the style of the awful GNU style guide which is a crime against humanity IMHO.
So, in a nutshell: He's a bird-fucking, self-absorbed, power hungry, toe jam eating pedophile that thinks everything should be free and everyone should be forced to share, who looks like he hasn't showered in years so as to create a static shield around his body to protect from aliens. He also created an OS without a kernel because he's basically Steve Jobs gone communist. Oh, and he calls himself doctor though he holds no PhD.
Nathan Campbell
>stallman is not a philosophically pure person. he follows his ideals when convenient, and ignores them or slightly alters them when the conflict isn't worth it. you can say whatever you want about stallman but this is simply not true. He's autistic when it comes to following his personal moral GNU/code.
Oliver Torres
>posting stale old cancerous reddit pasta over and over for the sole purpose of getting (You)s a) consider suicide b) do something useful with your life
Charles Richardson
How much faster would xfce debian be over lubuntu? Also, does the debian iso have options for installing a wm/de or will I have to set that up after installation?
Not very, I'm not sure about ubuntu specifically as it may have extra programs and start up scripts, but LXDE and XFCE are extremely close in their basic performance. The full install disk does have those options, but you might get a bit of extra shit you don't need/want.
Angel Watson
My new toy (lego ev3) runs linux.
Which is ridiculous since there's absolutely no support for it on this OS (OS X and Windows only).
Hopefully I'll get some old sd card so I can boot debian on it and get ssh access
Gavin Rodriguez
>LXDE and XFCE are extremely close in their basic performance Citation?
Cameron Robinson
I just installed gentoo. Does it get comfy? For now >hours to compile Firefox >still no sound >systemd dependencies everywhere. I feel like a vegan trying to avoid it >still "I don't know what I'm doing" feel
But I have to admit, what runs runs smoothly as fuck.
I consider getting back to arch for short term comfiness but I want to be part of the Gentoo meme club so I don't feel like coming back despite the efforts.
How to convince myself to keep on the road?
Brandon Miller
>gentoo >systemd either bait or i don't know what.
openrc is one of the main reasons why would anyone use gentoo
So unless you're running a machine that probably should not be running a desktop in the first place, both LXDE and XFCE are going to have very similar, if not the same performance.
James Anderson
I am using openrc. But systemd is everywhere. As an example, I saw a systemd dependency while emerge -av xfce4-meta
Jaxson Sanders
Memory usage doesn't correlate directly with performance.
Christopher King
learn to USE flags
Julian Fisher
GNOME is also famously systemd dependent.
Grayson Torres
People should ALWAYS use their brain when it comes to RMS quotes or email caps. There are a lot of fakes around and people still think it's some real shit.
How to discover fakes mails for ex.? RMS writes in emacs, following the oldschool fromatting (80 characters max line width, 2 spaces after sentence, 1 after word), etc. If you see a mail like pic related, it's fake.
Hudson Butler
Go away tripfag cancer, nobody likes you.
Jaxon Ortiz
Very little else does. Your HDD speed is going to affect both desktops equally, neither are going to do any damage to your CPU as neither use any sort of rendered OpenGL layer like the default Ubuntu desktop and KDE can/do. There's not anything else you should really be paying attention to.
Ryan Sanders
Dude is fucking retarded.
Like those guys that drop retarded facts that are wrong in casual conversation.
Andrew Reed
For comparsion, a random real mail.
Nicholas White
Am I doomed to openbox? I remembered that installating either xfce or GNOME magically fixed my sound config in arch and wanted to try the same for my gentoo.
Colton Torres
Whatever, any memes or shitposts are welcome at Sup Forums, tripfags aren't and belong to reddit. Fuck off.
David Watson
Maybe you would feel more comfortable reading comments that you can affect actual negativity in the form of a downvote, doesn't seem like you feel comfortable reading posts on Sup Forums.
Asher Wilson
What should I absolutely get after installing eOS ?
Adam Barnes
install gentoo
Juan Miller
I want to install linux on an old laptop. It has a first generation Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM and one of those shitty Intel integrated graphics. I'm torn between Ubuntu MATE (I like gnome 2, it's lightweight, ubuntu has all the packages I could ever want, LTS until 2019) or Linux Mint, which I don't know much about. Which one should I go for?
Jason Kelly
stop derailing the thread and fuck off already
Carson Thomas
took 8 mins to download 49MB of files is this right?
Jack Thompson
The other email you're responding to is real.
Matthew Wilson
Stallman doesn't approve.
Nicholas Gutierrez
A sex change, you massive pussy
Leo Bennett
Fuck off, SJWbian shill
Asher Jenkins
Nah, there are tons of other good WMs and there's also some available older versions of DEs that run on OpenRC. Again, set your use flag to take away systemd to get more options and read the gentoo wiki about some of the choices you have.
Your sound was probably fixed by pulseaudio, but it's a nightmare on Gentoo and I highly recommend you checkout alsa-utils, open alsamixer and see if pressing M (mute/unmute) on the channels and bringing them up helps. If not, there's a wiki page on asoundrc and alsa list.
Benjamin Lewis
Lol, Debian works fine despite the SJW boogeyman. I'm installing it on my laptop as I type this.
How do I make a bootable USB drive from the Linux ISO?
Aaron Reyes
Linux provides no ISOs.
Austin Price
On Linux: use DD. On Windows: use LiLi.
Jack Wood
I don't think anyone ITT has a likeable personality
>Debian >Works
Daniel Ramirez
It's unofficial and dead.
Gabriel Fisher
>all genders
Jayden Clark
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.
Jeremiah Lee
Daily reminder to check male programmers privilege checklist
Install ROSA image writer
Owen Howard
What is this?
Michael Gray
Ya for Windows. Lili looks good. I've used Rufus in the past, that still viable?
I don't know, I've never tried it. But LiLi is very easy to use and lets you keep on using your drive for other files.
Josiah Hill
>Not checking the output apt
A newfag can do this a seasoned user can't.
Asher Richardson
I'm installing it now. Pretty smooth so far.
Jaxson Collins
Cool, thx
Wyatt Scott
>checking the output apt checking what? apt fucking up the desktop? until you install plebian next time
Alexander Young
Hey Sup Forums, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use?
Levi Sanders
Debian has given NOTHING back to the Linux community but for SJWS
Adrian Phillips
This is my "next time" though. But why would I need to install it again?
Henry Gutierrez
I used to like Crunchbang, I don't know if Crunchband++ is as good. You could checkout xubuntu/lubuntu too.
Jose Edwards
Same reason why you removed your previous debian installation
Austin Perez
When you use autoremove it's list what will it remove.
Jordan White
Debian Sid. Or if you're bloddy new, go with Ubuntu.
Josiah Reed
Arch
Chase Collins
Yet I haven't run into any issues in my next installation as you claim.
David Scott
How'd I do Sup Forumsentoomen?
Aaron Myers
bunsenlabs is the new crunchbang after it died, crunchbang++ is afaik just a alternative project by some random fag he said lightweight
Colton Brooks
Arch is lightweigh
Owen Myers
Why are you on an outdated kernel running Gentoo?
Brandon Richardson
because it's been half an hour and you haven't even finished your half assed freetard wannabe distro yet
Camden Hughes
arch is bloated, packages are twice as huge as on debian for example
Isaac Wilson
>Crunchbang >user-friendly
Blake Morales
...
Justin Cook
alien and lilo were maintained by debian maintainers. Lilo is now a slackware thing. Alien was cucked by the systemd terror, and promised to leave, but maybe didn't happened. 2 distro on the meme is debian based though.
Ayden Evans
woah I sure have some fans don't I
Owen Clark
>what is package splitting your new is showing
Carter James
What wasn't user-friendly in your opinion? It even had a graphical package manager.
Dominic James
I just reused my kernel from Arch. I'll probably build a new one tonight
Brody Adams
No it hasn't. I'm at the part where you select and install software. The only "problem" I ran into was loading wifi firmwares, but all I had to do was copy them to a usb and plug it in.
Samuel Garcia
>what is package splitting Enjoy your broken packages
Nolan Butler
Freetard distros, everyone
So nothing
Hunter Clark
this is the best pepe i've seen in a long time
Jack Brooks
Rest assured no one here likes you.
Owen Butler
If you are looking for a SJW hugbox this isn't the place, debqueer
Dylan Bailey
>>what is package splitting >Enjoy your broken packages Why aren't you running a statically-linked distro?
Levi Brooks
>Freetard distros, everyone Not sure how I'm supposed to respond to this, I guess we're done.
Carter Reyes
I don't have autism
Oliver King
how does it feel to be the thread's worst cancer?
Kevin Peterson
>I got owned: the post
Aaron Martin
Nice denial.
Camden Harris
What did he meme by this
Matthew Baker
>denial No? lol
WHAT did debian do? Wayland development? Hotpatching? KCraft? Any desktop environment? Snaps? Flatpack? Sandboxie? OpenZFS?
I know: >anti harassment wiki
Tyler Gomez
Seriously, please fuck off. This is a friendly thread. This means actual useful informations, not stupid memes and false informations you're spreading here every day. You're pretty much killing the thread. Newcomers will just turn 360° and walk away and linuxmasterrace memers feel at home. Seriously, kill yourself.
