Customizing the GUI is fun and all, but what's the point? Sure there are secure distros and all that for specific purposes, but people here seem to be using Arch or Ubuntu or something like that.
Performance is pretty lacking too, and there are little bugs and irritating quirks everywhere.
Are you all working a corporate administrator position or something that requires you to use Linux for some reason? What is it? It makes computers feel like an old Android phone in that you're really fighting the thing instead of using it.
Dominic Martinez
>What is it? anime desktop connoisseur
Jacob Diaz
>Performance is pretty lacking too, and there are little bugs and irritating quirks everywhere. I have both Windows 7 and Arch with i3 installed. Arch is much more responsive than W7.
>Customizing the GUI is fun and all, but what's the point? The point for me is to have more pleasant working environment as a programmer.
>It makes computers feel like an old Android phone in that you're really fighting the thing instead of using it. That's funny because it's on Windows that I feel like I'm fighting the OS instead of it doing what I want it to do.
Carson Martin
Ubuntu "werks" for me and that's my whole apology for using it.
Joseph James
package manager
Daniel Phillips
>Performance is pretty lacking too, and there are little bugs and irritating quirks everywhere. i feel the same way about windows
Owen Mitchell
Linux provides a desktop experience superior to what Windows offers. Any little bugs or quirks in Linux is nothing compared to the shit hurricane you can find yourself dealing with on Windows. And that's only with things like updates failling or the OS fucking up drivers, that's not even counting the potential malware.
Isaac Miller
>kde
Jack Rivera
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Adrian Smith
>and there are little bugs and irritating quirks everywhere. Windows has just as many, you're just used to them.
Ryan Flores
What about it?
Camden Ward
Why do you feel like you are fighting the os on windows?
Leo Edwards
>Bitch, I said it's time to install updates. I hope you saved your shit you little faggot.
Anthony Ross
I've seen more irritating quirks on a Windows 10 installation than on Ubuntu Gnome 17.04. I also have no idea why you're saying that performance is pretty lacking. Are you trying out Linux on a virtual machine or something?
Cameron Brooks
I've never had this problem on any Windows 10. I agree its bad for spying on you and all, but auto updates were easy to turn off...
Xavier Evans
Are you all working a corporate administrator position or something that requires you to use Linux for some reason? What is it? I am making embedded systems. I am using ubuntu and my embedded systems use ubuntu. Most of the time, I do not have a desktop environment on those systems, and when I do, I don't change much.
>It makes computers feel like an old Android phone in that you're really fighting the thing instead of using it. I think it depends on what you are doing. For programming, using windows is not a good option as you lack the tools of the trade and you waste time replicating it. osx is not an option as there is no hardware support and I am not taping an imac to a platform.
Lincoln Ross
Is Linux even secure anymore? Nobody says anything about vault7 only the founder who said something like "that's understandable" Nobody has said anything about what exploits are fixed or which distros are secure, they just remain silent
Hell I even feel safer using windows 10, Linux has shit firewalls and primitive url/dns logging, while on windows you can disable their spyware shit even their hardcoded domains and have good firewalls and monitoring tools
Jordan Phillips
Believe it or not, it's easier to do my homeworks on a linux system because it integrates the programs I use better. When I need something more vanilla I use windows.
Henry Nguyen
>registry >preinstalled bloat >package management >nonstandard ui >filesystems it's incredibly frustrating downloading helper programs to change simple things
Henry Bailey
it's required on gnome 3 without customizing it's unusable
Anthony Adams
>while on windows you can disable their spyware shit even their hardcoded domains and have good firewalls and monitoring tools
Oliver Smith
>Baka MPlayer >not mpv Why?
Luke Peterson
> Why Linux? > Customizing the GUI You are missing the point. Linux can deliver bulletproof, 2-years-of-uptime, botnet-free, secure and updateable services in your home for free of charge.
Henry Peterson
For playlists obviously, I don't want to have to select the next episode when one ends. Baka Mplayer is just a frontend for mpv btw.
Isaiah Russell
It is possible to block it and very easy too
Jacob Russell
Linux feels like the only operating system family that doesn't get in your way, I don't understand your point there. I feel like Windows and osx get in the way far more often than any Linux distro I've used. Unless you consider the ability to fully customize your operating system as "fighting it"
Carson James
The updates can be blocked this way too
Now is Linux actually still secure? I cant find any info on whether they actually fixed it just people assuming they did it since is open source
Cameron Reyes
>is Linux still secure? Here's the big secret: no. Nothing is secure. I guarantee you there are huge gaps in both Windows and Linux that no one has found yet. Arguing which has more at a specific point in time is asinine. The differentiating factor is where the power lies; in Windows you have to trust the Microsoft developers are competent enough to fix everything. In Linux you have more control because it is open source.
Eli Bell
"Performance is pretty lacking too, and there are little bugs and irritating quirks everywhere."
No, that's Windows. You're thinking of Windows, there.
Luis Campbell
You can customize far more than the gui. In fact, customizing the gui is typically my last priority. The point is you can customize pretty much the entire os.
Henry Powell
You'll find that most Linux exploits require some sort of access to your computer. It's like not the CIA is going to hack you from afar. Now if they break into your home to mess around, you're probably fucked unless you use full disk encryption with a 32 character password or something.
Nolan Adams
Whats the most important customization you make to your linux OS?
Justin Ward
Customizations to tmux and even more basically my bashrc/bash_profile and even my vimrc. Very basic but extremely essential.
Justin Parker
Never happened to me
And to all you other traps: you are flaming anime faggots. Self sterilization is an option to consider!
Jonathan Miller
Linux benefits from economies of scale where Windows can't. Once you're out of your element when it comes to Group Policy and ImageX (or AIK or whatever the fuck they all it any more), your up shit creek deploying Windows.
Desktop Linux has made an absurd amount of ground in the last five years. Give it another five and it'll contend with Windows for business environments.
The only thing Windows servers were ever worth a shit for is managing Windows desktops.
Not having to worry about ETERNALBLUE is reason enough to use Linux, at least for me.
Kevin Wilson
removing systemd.
Adrian Clark
>Never happened to me Stop lying. Also not everyone who watches anime is a retarded cross dressing faggot, I probably bench more than you do.
Liam Nelson
There is literally nothing wrong with systemD
Elijah Nelson
I feel you Sadly, I have to use W7 at work. My issues are: no middle click paste, no tiling, the windows loose focus randomly, no scroll in unfocused windows and, one of the most annoying things, I can see the fucking pixels from shitty glossy icons. I mean, you pay for the OS and suddenly you reach an obscure configuration window that has the windows 95 and for some reason the icons in a very shitty resolution.
Jack Parker
This. Also post hitagi.gif pls.
James Parker
Half of those things do actually belong in systemd though, like mounts, mounting happens during the init process. Also logging fits well in systemd because it starts all the services so it can easily gather their messages, and of course acpi is in there because that has to do with powering on and off the system which is handled by the init system.