Give me one good reason to use Linux instead of Windows

Give me one good reason to use Linux instead of Windows.

The botnet meme ins't a reason.

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>>The botnet meme ins't a reason.
Yes it is.

It's not, and if is, i don't care.

You should care.

Pros
Better dev environment
Don't like something, you can change it
Free as in beer and free as in speech
Looks good on resumes
Low risk of viruses
Fairly friendly community

Cons
No games or good image/video/audio editing software.

>not caring about privacy

>No games or good image/video/audio editing software.
That is a lie.

I should, but i don't.

Now is as good a time as any to start. It's never too late.

Post a triple way game avaible on linux that ins't bioshock infinite.

Compared to windows

>Better dev environment

How? Not saying you are wrong, just curious.

>posts picture of a traitor and a quote from a traitor
>thinks this will help his argument
wew lad

>dat moving goalpost
But whatever
Borderlands 2
Alien: Isolation
Whatever valve is up to
Metro 2033

I could likely go on.

Citizens owe zero loyalty to a government that violates their rights. Snowden had a choice between the Constitution and the government. He chose to defend the former and betray the latter. He was 100% right in his choice.

Native bash and development package support in a free (not Macos) operating system.

If you're a developer or aspiring:
>Linux is *nix, Windows is not. Enough said.

If you're a normie:
>Linux is faster
>Linux has less viruses
>Linux has package managers (inb4 Windows has them as well; they're awful)
>Linux is extremely customizable. There is a plethora of working DE's you can choose from and 99% of the handsome OS screenshots that you see on the net are Linux boxes. On Windows, you don't like the whole Metro shit? Fuck you, we do like it, so suck it up.
>It's easier to fix shit on Linux if it breaks. If shit breaks on Windows, prepare for a reinstall.

If you're a gaymer or graphics designer:
>Keep using Windows.

It's not shit.

It's generally more open to tinkering, being FLOSS.

Doesn't need a 3rd party program to have keybinds to change the volume.

You don't have to pay for everything, software junk isn't mysteriously sprinkled throughout the system, and terminal integration is cool.

>Linux is faster
For what? Not kidding but for a normie, what is linux faster at than windows that will matter to them?

No, fu.
do your own research

Cons
It barely works without a shit ton of work on it

It isn't. If anything it's slower due to lack of drivers or shitty implementations. Windows does everything possible to make crap hardware feel faster than it really is, Linux is much more simplistic and doesn't bother.

Windows sucks due to the lack of trust in everything you install.

In Linux, if I want to format ANYTHING to ANYTHING from ANYTHING or just delete ANYTHING, I can use gparted. It's free, trustworthy and isn't going to load my system up with bullshit. This goes for SD cards to hard drives, to SSD's to flash drives.

In Windows I need a separate program to deal with those sorts of partitions, not to mention the lack of support for filesystems that aren't fat32 or NTFS entirely.

This doesn't just go for gparted. Virtual camera software and hotkey management are also covered here. They all have to be third-party programs from closed-source devs that throw malware into everything they code.

Fuck it completely.

There are lots of games. It really depends what you play.

>Give me one good reason to use Linux instead of Windows.

No. If you think Linux might be interesting then try it and see what you think.

Why are there so many of these "sell me this idea" threads on Sup Forums? This is a tech board not a salesman convention.

Either do it or don't do it and shut the fuck up.

>Botnet is a meme.
Hello NSA.
>I don't care that my basic human rights are raped by the corporations.
Retard, shill or a retarded shill?
This.
Good quality post.
I don't think it is, my friend has to use Windows for video and sound editing because GNU/Linux lacks the programs to compete with what he uses. He does 4k editing.
Start now.
Great post.
I have a 6700k, 16gb of DDR4, 980Ti and the difference between how responsive the OS is like night and day. I used to use Windows 10 Enterprise, turned to Xubuntu week ago and it is way more responsive.
>Windows does everything possible to make crap hardware feel faster than it really is
Windows doesn't do anything to make hardware feel faster so in the end even a 1080x2 32gb ddr4 6700k ram machine feels slow under Wangblows.
It's simply put a better OS if you don't need particular programs.

Linux userbase is already full with idiots, we don't need another one. Keep using windows.

If you don't know why then you're probably too stupid.

Anyway, the real answer if GNU.

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>traitor
I hope you kys, conservacuck

You're autistic.

hey im kinda new so dont be to harsh on me can someone please explain me this botnet thing? (also i like and have to many games to switch although i might get a laptop that just solely uses linux if this botnet thing is cool)

Great development enviroment is my main reason.

I have a separate computer for gayms.

It consumes less resources in general, especially windows 10 consumes a lot of resources even when idling.
Nice bait. Then explain me why debian with xfce boots in 15 seconds on an old p4 shitbox of mine.

Why are you even replying for fucks sake? What happened to "don't feed the trolls"? Why is it that every single bait thread instantly receive dozens of replies? Is Sup Forums so full of retard newfags and redditors that people literally can't help but reply to bait threads?
Please just stop.

youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&persist_app=1&v=s0sgiY93w9c

Normally, Sup Forums consider everything closed source a botnet, which is not 100% true.

W**dows is an unstable piece of turd. Get over it.

thank you

Arma 3
Dark Souls 3

Of my 300+ at least a 100 are Linux compatible. I don't do AAA much though.

Firefox is mysteriously not shit in Linux. On Windows it is absolutely terrible.

It means windows is malware and spies on you constantly.
Here's a video made by an autist explaining some shit youtube.com/watch?v=u1kGMCfb2xw
Doing all this still doesn't stop it. Microsoft went full totalitarian and spyware. Windows has become a tool to spy on people. It lets America have control over it's citizens all while spying on other countries.

>an american hero is a traitor

>The botnet meme ins't a reason.

Nice bait user.

The botnet alone is reason enough and saying you don't care is just lying on the internet. Why would you lie on the internet?

>these linux users mad just i don't care for the botnet meme

i dont mind desu all they'l find is wierd porn

so let me get this straight if i use my virtual machine i can become a pupet master!?

what are some benefits to a botnet besides ddo'sing advantages?

>these anons implying botnet is not a meme

Why linuxusers are so idiots?

It's free and everything that derives from this fact is a reason to use it. You can't be fully satisfied with non-free OS because it's made in a way to be liked by as many people as possible, can't be perfect for each user. Any part of GNU os can be chosen from at least 3 variants (you can even run it with bsd kernel instead of linux), you are free to assemble system that is perfect for you and compute in your own style without getting annoyed of something you don't like in windows or osx.

Nigga wut I would greatly prefer to have mpv and ffmpeg at this point.

snowden was a low level contractor who stole files and really knows very little of the intelligence community

Hi, NSA shill, do you like your work? Do they pay you much?

Alright you faggot listen up.

GPU PASSTHROUGH.

I can tell you're a Gaymer. Now stop whining about the Botnet meme if there a single meme that you should care about is this one.

Sauce ?

whats that?

not OP btw

my extreme satisfaction folder

>an entire hard drive for python
JUST

GPU passthrough (more generally PCI passthrough) is a technology allowing you to run a Windows VM inside a Linux host and give it it's own dedicated physical GPU. You need two GPUs and a willingness for pain though.

In my experience it creates a significant drop in performance and causes a number of totally undiagnosable bugs (games not launching, games running at 1 FPS, etc.) but other people swear by it.

that sounds amazing i might try it when it becomes less buggy and i might pick up a cheap gpu for the linux side

thank you :D

>Wingblow 10

No thanks.

God I'm so fucking happy I don't use Windows 10 anymore

btw everyone that has a anime pic that isnt OP is me but can someone run me through on what version of linux i need to run this botnet thing and if it doesn't go against 4 chans rules can someone link a video on what program to use?

>only people in the secret intelligence club are able to decide if what the secret intelligence club does is okay
Who watches the watchers, then? We need more Snowdens. We need the intelligence community to know that if they do anything that isn't 110% justifiable, it'll be leaked and show up as headline news the world over.

Some hardware doesn't play nice with it. Up until pretty recently, and sometimes still, mobo makers sometimes skimped on having a working virtualization subsystem, on the logic that it's finicky and most consumers never use it.

Integrated graphics counts as a GPU for this purpose btw

well everyone but these annons

Since you are talking about games..

has anyone had success running The Witcher 3 with nVidia GPU and Intel CPU in Ubuntu?

InstallGentoo Wiki

GPU passthrough i Yes i'm able to play the Witcher 3 with it.

ok what then?

because windows is a botnet you spastic cunt

>the os im using right now is fine but i really wanna use linux so i can post my arch install in desktop threads and get 0 replies because no one cares
epic dude

What most others said but also
>Font rendering

The difference is night and day. I used GNU+Linux exclusively for a few days, then when I went back to Windows everything was the same but I was wondering why all the fonts were screwed up.

It just makes it look so much better. Not just the fonts but everything just looks so much better.

I don't have 2 GPUs so I can't do it.

Are you fucking braindead ?

SEARCHING YOU FAGGOT I'M NOT YOUR MOM

You cpu have one usually.

CPUs usually have integrated graphics support. They can behave as a seperate GPU, it will only cost you around 250-500MB RAM.

DAMMIT MOM IVE NEVER USED ANYTHING LINUX RELATE NOR DO I HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT IM SUPPOSED TO DO!!!!

You misunderstood something somewhere, you have no idea what's actually going on. We can't give you IQ or spoonfeed you.

This.

im downloading KALI FUCK YOU

HOPEFULLY ILL GO SOMEWHERE
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I guarantee you it's a 2gb partition

He saw something wrong, but he didn't know the full context of it at the Pentagon level. the DoD doesn't give a fuck about all this autism here, just the activities of those who would do us harm.

Not trying to sound like a bootlicker or that I don't care about privacy, but they have bigger fish to fry.

>He fall for Kali

Well done you sperg, you're a hacker now.

WAIT WHAT?!

Even so they don't care about what we are doing, does that mean i have let my privacy go for that matter ?

More important, THEY NEVER BEEN ABLE TO STOP A SINGLE FUCKING SHIT WITH THEIR PROGRAM.

So the reason why their doing it is not effective plus it's intruisive for other people.

Defend this you.

theintercept.com/2015/11/17/u-s-mass-surveillance-has-no-record-of-thwarting-large-terror-attacks-regardless-of-snowden-leaks/

1. The scheduler is worse.
I have 4 cores on my laptop.
Running a single core application means I use 25% CPU.
On windows, running a single core application means I use 16%.

2. The system is harder to change.
This means most people stick with the default environment which uses more resources than kde, yet offers fewer features than mate.

3. Windows doesn't handle software.
This means every application needs to phone home to check for updates and the updates windows do handle is poorly implemented, so you spend a lot of resources doing updates, not to mention how much time you spend shutting windows down and starting up due to this.
And the new versions where you have to ask for permission to use the computer, stuff like that waste time.

Now gnu/linux also waste time, but in different ways.
You have to find (alternative) applications, test out drivers and if you are the only one in the field, you are going to have a bad time.
Most of linux users are in a field where they have all the applications they need and then they don't deal with those things.

I don't know if these things doesn't impact windows users or they just don't know better, but there is too many windows users to make generalizations like that.

>just the activities of those who would do us harm.
That's always the excuse they use. They need us to believe that the world is a dangerous place full of enemies to justify their power and abuses.

I don't see Thief: The Dark Project in there.

Ron Paul is so fucking based.

Dark Souls 3? I wish.
The only reason I boot Windows anymore is just so I can play DaS every now and then.

You've already decided no reason is valid, so why should I?
Give me one good reason to use Windows instead of Linux, your reasons probably don't apply to me either.

He did give it to the enemy by making it public though.

This. America has a tendency to set up something which harms their people just enough that they become desperate and trade their freedom for security.

>pearl harbor
>the state sends half the troops home several days before the attack because "they didn't know anyone will attack"
>hurr it's a coincidence, they wouldn't do that just so they have a globally accepted reason to kill japs and use the nuke

>gulf of tonkin "incident"
>government lets one of their ships get wrecked, and another imaginary ship destroyed
>hurr so what if they faked it? it was justified so people would be motivated for war!

>9/11
>plane rushing towards USA
>it's "impossible" to stop it and it's "too late" to do anything about it, so let's just let it crash
>hurr they didn't, no way the gov would do something like that just to scare people into giving their freedom for false sense of security! And they didn't use detonations just in case!

>Source
>My ass.

He didn't since it's been well analyse by journalist. Now since you're not been able to give a single fucking proof of what your saying there is no reason to argue with you.

> implying
He gave it news outlets, goyim. He's not exactly Julian Assange.

maybe not everyone wants to fire ballistic missile at us, but if you've ever seen how aggressive some are out there on the networks/intel gathering, you might think a little bit differently. Just look at all the agency breaches.

Take your phone off airplane mode when cruising close to a Chinese API in the South China Sea and see what happens.

he is your typical paranoid tinfoil faggot

behead this traitor

>Take your phone off airplane mode when cruising close to a Chinese API in the South China Sea and see what happens.
W-what happens

...

>american hero
he is an american traitor