So, what exactly can I do on Linux that I can't do on Windows?

So, what exactly can I do on Linux that I can't do on Windows?

>what exactly can I do on Linux that I can't do on Windows?
Modify the kernel itself.

>inb4 but why would I want to do that
You didn't ask for reasons.

Shitpost on desktop threads without being called a winbabby

rice desktop with hot anime bitches and get other neets to give you the succ

Trust.

Not much; the main reason you use it is because it allows you to know what you're using, which can potentially be extremely important.

(you) will be set free, homo

primarily ideological reasons. in practice, not much.

Very little that would be of interest to am end user. More RAM, run horrendously outdated hardware for reasons only businesses will comprehend, so on and so forth.

Oh, and actually get a fileserver to run. I'm a blatant windows fanboy but I could never for the life of me get windows set up properly for that.

Have more punctuation in your filenames.

trust that you're more easily found considering there's such a small pool of lincucks

I'm having trouble making a windows server 2008 fileserver right now, are there any fileserver programs on linux with a gui because i'm a brainlet?

>are there any fileserver programs on linux with a gui
Yes

CentOS even come with one preinstalled (web panel I think it's called iirc).

follow any of the major programming tutorials without wanting to off yourself

Have a handful of really nice and different desktop environments that you can switch between at your leisure.

If you want easy setup, samba is easy enough that a retard can set it up via CLI. Hint, I am retarded and was able to set it up. Get out of your comfort zone a little.

Get mad because fucking nothing works out of the box due to broken dependencies and obscure libraries, have fun googling and reading through 20 different ways to """fix""" anything that should be a basic utility or function in any OS.

But hey, open source and "high user end customization" amirite

You can do that on Windows. Boot with windbg attached to disable patch guard and you have full access to modify the kernel.

When was the last time you tried to install linux? If you stick with ubuntu (Like a beginner probably should) everything works out of the box.

>I'd rather trust some fringey software given to me for FREE!!! than some well-established software with a name and a company behind it and that you pay for it
Ever heard of "if the service is free, then the merchandise is you"? Ever heard of "you get what you pay for"? Windows is more trustworthy than Linux any day.

no it doesn't

try getting the latest version of qbittorrent, or other applications like grub customizer, they aren't included

Ever here of "there is a time and place for everything"? The time and place for that quote isn't here and doesn't apply.

Stay in denial, cuck.

blatant lies, but you can noob your way into a corner sure.

>old versions
>nonfunctional
ubuntu and lots of things have PPAs and user repos for stuff without having to go about building it yourself which does work in the noob-friendly software center shit or better the straight web-to-package-manager managed-update-and-dependency-resolving functions.

When's the last time windows updated qbittorrent for you?

Also linux has games now, with or without wine.

>Play games.

brag about being a virgin

reformat hard drive

there's valgrind -- dr.memory exists, but I haven't tried it
valgrind or something similar is pretty much a hard requirement if doing any non-trivial C project so you can detect memory leaks and other general fuckups

other than that, there's legacy hardware support out the ass
and then there's the pretty extensive customization you can do

really though, OS choice doesn't really matter as much as people think depending on what you do, barring shit like literally getting spied on or security, use whatever you want (shit, I boot Windows mostly these days out of laziness)

>tfw had to reinstall windows not too long ago
>tfw windows didn't really pick up any of the hardware in the machine
like, I had to go searching for an ethernet driver so I could get the rest of the shit to auto-install (and then that didn't happen, so I had to find the rest of the drivers)
this isn't a wholly isolated incident (but this one was the dumbest, I'd never seen a post-XP Windows version not recognize an ethernet card card out of the box)

really, Windows only "just werks" because it literally comes with the machine in most cases
part of the issue Linux has had is the continued insistence on not having a stable driver abi -- stable_api_nonsense.txt is accurately named because it's full of absolute nonsense that simply results in Linux continuing to have spotty hardware support, you end up with drivers that only kind of mostly sort of work but not quite because hardware manufacturers as a whole aren't going to give out the info required to write a good open source driver

the above is why wifi on Linux sucked for like an entire decade after wifi became popular, and it's still a bit iffy to this day

does windows have make menuconfig? didnt think so.

Access the source code of your operating system so you know if its being malicious or not

Full control over the entire system down to the last byte. Not locked behind shitty restrictions at every corner like Windows

Your desktop can actually look however you want and not look like some gay shit that MS keeps putting out mixed with a shitty Rainmeter skin

Package manager allows easy control over all installed programs and you can update them all with a single command or click

This

How come nobody ever addresses this elephant in the room?
>muh open source
How many people actually audit the source code of linux distros? Most people are too busy ricing it up with some meme flat design and naked 4 yr old cartoon girls to check.

Who's to say the autismos behind these distros aren't putting nefarious shit in them?

emulate Windows

Doesn't take an audit for most stuff, people follow projects and contribute. Also the actual devs tend to be not part of the distro maintainers/packagers.

Do things without having Cortana track your every move.

You can open selected file with spacebar. File manager with tabs.

This

>so you know if its being malicious or not
OpenBSD is open source and yet the FBI still managed to plant backdoors in it. Even after the code audit, they couldn't find the backdoors. They're probably still in there to this day. Linux has tons of literal NSA code, how can you tell it's not malicious?

>full control over the entire system
You mean like which network users can run which applications? Oh, I forgot, unlike on Windows you can't do that on Linux without third-party software! My bad...

>your desktop can actually look however you want
Windows has themes. It has had it for a long time. You sound out of touch.

>package manager allows easy control over all installed programs
If by "easy" you mean a clusterfuck of unmet dependencies and meaningless library names, then yeah. Quite easy to break (and it often does).]

Windows had that problem a long time ago and has learned with it (it used to be called "DLL hell" back in the day). Nowadays, Windows has Windows Installer and the Windows Store. Windows' package management now allows all software to be self-contained, and on a domain, administrators can control exactly what software and what version each user runs. Administrators can also quickly deploy software and updates across the entire network. Can you do that on Linux?

Wow. Most of the code in linux/bsd/windows system stuff's just a ticking time bomb anyway. People can help fix that on some OSes.

Full control means full control, you can easily manage user and group permissions on linux. Not the best, though. Not plan9 namespaces. Plenty of options though whichever route you want to go.

Package managers meet dependencies kind of by definition. The naming varies, but I've never found one that wasn't easily recognizable and then they all have a package description too.

Windows today has DLL hell.

I can't believe some asshole typed all of this shit

what is this post

>openbsd backdoors
literal FUD, stop that

>which network users can run which applications
have you never managed a linux system of any kind

>windows has themes
that doesn't even fucking deserve a response

>clusterfuck of unmet dependencies
that still happens on Windows
and yes, you can deliver self-contained packages on Linux and any sysadmin who isn't a literal incompetent can deploy software and updates
and shit, most distros have had a Windows Store style central repository for software and updates for far longer than Windows has

>I can't believe someone's having a discussion!

>tons of literal NSA code
>"windows has themes"
>unmet dependencies with a package manager
is this post real

play nethack

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install qbittorrent


what a chore

hack your neighbor's wifi

Boot into it on the side to screenshot for a desktop thread, and then boot back into Windows again.

same with Debian, it required like 0 brainpower. Just click what you like, "continue","continue","continue","continue", username, password, done.

>tons of literal NSA code
prove that it doesn't exist

don't be naive you cannot trust code you did not write or heavily review and even if you did you would miss a lot of things

Screenfetch

Prove that God doesn't exist.

Code is literally just electrons, those are pretty light, there probably doesn't even exist a ton of code in the world. Implying that there exist tons of NSA code is absurd

NSA code is a perfect being
NSA code requires worship
That is a deficiency, therefore NSA code does not exit.

Not sure if troll or actual autism...

the only point in arguing merits is if you don't own win, mac, and linux comps in a variety of configurations.

>which can potentially be extremely important
Onlyif you're a fucking pedophile, fuick off and commit suicide please.

>So, what exactly can I do on Linux that I can't do on Windows?

Reductio ad absurdum is a logical fallacy. Stop.

You can't prove a negative. Stop.

You can't prove a negative. Stop.

Install programs not approved by microsoft

lots of stuff

the problem is getting it to work at all

>So, what exactly can I do on Linux that I can't do on Windows?
Doing the updates when you want
Doing the updates watching porn in Firefox
Restart your computer when you want
Don't have to pay for an shitty office licence
Customise the shit of it
Less botnet
Linux still fast even if you have 5giga of cache and internet poo on it
Don't need an online account to login

>Doing the updates when you want
>Doing the updates watching porn in Firefox
>Restart your computer when you want
>Don't have to pay for an shitty office licence
>Customise the shit of it
>Less botnet
>Linux still fast even if you have 5giga of cache and internet poo on it
>Don't need an online account to login
My windows 7 does all this just fine.

Is this linux thing just a meme? I came to this thread looking for legitimate reasons.

You can run it for ages updating it as many times as you wish, installing any software you want and it will still run as well as day one.

You can easily install and use software that isn't easily available on Windows. Installing from source is pretty straight forward on Windows. You don't need to have the right VisualStudio version or anything.

I like that it never tells me I need to update, or give me random notifications. I've been using Lubuntu for 9 months, and I'm still not really sure if it's better than Windows. Both have their pros and cons.