Fuck it. Who else recently made the plunge and de-installed Windows and switched to Linux?

Fuck it. Who else recently made the plunge and de-installed Windows and switched to Linux?

I've tried Linux in a virtual machine before, so I'm not a complete noob (but still 95% noob). Now, Windows will forever stay in a virtual machine.

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>Format hard drive
Are Linux tards really this stupid?
Google Windows.old while your already googling the rest of the simple things that linux complicates.

It's fun how the Windows people think we are delusional about their operating system while they have no clue about ours.

this image is fucking terrible

REMINDER THAT THERE IS STILL NO GUI ENABLED DEVICE MANAGER FOR LINUX

There's no need to learn an inferior system.
You're a vocal minority of nobodies.

Also, you need to train your lousy projecting skills.

inman is a macfag

I don't have Windows atm, I removed them and only have Arch and Ubuntu Mate. Linux is awesome for a lot of things especially if you're interested in computers or computer science, but it's still behind on some aspects.

I don't give a fuck about gaming but I've spent a lot of time trying to make a recording setup, but there's no drivers for my audio interface and I basically can't use one of the inputs.

In Windows or Mac you just install a program and it works, there's always drivers for hardware, and you can play games if you care about that. You can game in Linux through Wine but it's not the same.

After the summer when I'll be home again I'll build a really good computer, and when I do that I'll have both Windows and Arch in it. Since you don't have to pick one or the other, I suggest you do the same in case you need to do some actual audio/video/photo editing.

Have fun with Linux though, it's fucking awesome. Get a big fast usb drive, put multiboot on it, and try a bunch of distros like Elementary OS (lightweight and looks and feels fantastic), Fedora (has a great package manager to install and try new shit, you might like the look too), OpenSUSE (same as Fedora but in different ways), Ubuntu Mate (my favorite out of the box, lightweight, stable, aesthetic af) Linux Mint (I dislike the look but it's so easy to use), and, once you can use the command line effectively, Arch Linux (you can add only whatever you want, you build it from scratch, has the best repositories and package managers, best wiki, best community, and you'll learn a lot if you care about OSs).

drivers are not wuite there for Linux yet.
anyways you should try a full linux install, seemhow it goes for lioe 2 weeks or more and then you decide.
or use tw partitions: one for gayming and the otherone for literally everything else.

btw you can do audio/video/photo editing in Linux, and achieve the same results (apart from the drivers problem with recording that I have) but the free software in Linux is a tiny bit harder to use and for some things it has less features.

However, my girlfriend who is a graphic designer was struggling in Photoshop and Illustrator to do something that I did in GIMP in 1 minute. As I said, if it's not your actual job, you can make do, with great results for that matter, with free software in Linux.

How about Godot and Blender?

what about them?

How do you pay for it, tho?

>Device manager? What do you need GUI for?
>muh plaintext configs

Any good compared to pro software?

there are graphical file managers for linux, what are you on about?

In same boat here.
Recently acquired four old lenovo towers, bought hard drives for two of them and I'm currently trying to install Gentoo on at least one using sysrescue cd.
That comic is correct though. For the sake of total freedom I've sacrificed convenience. For some reason now sysrescue won't even boot up. The monitor just had a blinking cursor (underscore).
Gonna keep W10 on my laptop tho, for the sake of normie shit (school, work, gaming). But any serious software development is gonna be on Gentoo, where the CIA can't back door and decide I'm a non compliant, then stuff a gig of CP on my hard drive.
Also, a disk partition recently popped up on my laptop that I never made and I can't get access to. Spooky.

Pretty sure they are talking about a graphical interface for /dev and probably /sys

exactly
they're folders, you can browse them with a file manager

desu I haven't tried either, but they seem on par with anything else. You probably won't have the same support you'd get with Unity or Vulkan though, but this is just a guess. Animation I have never messed with so I can't tell you about Blender.

I bought a macbook because I wanted a stable unix environment for development, and I was fucking sick of having to fight with my computer for 2 hours to do a simple task and then having to put together scripts to run on startup to take care of them later.

Thanks for the reply user

Blender is actually an impressively robust video editor

This

I switched to linux last week.
Completely wiped my disk.

But yesterday... I felt the urge to revert back to windows, because it feels somewhat like home to me.

So I made a complete image based backup of my linux, reinstalled windows and I'm happy with it.

If I wanna change to linux again, I'd just have to restore my backup and will be greeted by a completely configured linux installation.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

Why not dual boot?

I could do that but then I'd have to decide on wich OS my files are residing.

I only got 2x500GB SDD in RAID 0
It's pretty much full

> de-installed

Yep, you are a Windows user

I use it on my laptop and a secondary computer, but I'm planning to make my primary PC exclusively Linux once I get time.

Bruh.
>Windows Recovery Partition
>Windows Partition
>Linux Root Partition
>Linux Main Partition
>Linux Swap Partition
>Shared Memes and Anime Porn Partition

What I used to do (as I said here I don't have windows any more) was have 2 partitions, Linux one about 80-100Gb and the rest for Windows. The thing is from Linux you can access everything there is in your Windows partition and use it, whereas from Windows you can't see Linux (never looked into it, but that's how the defaults are). You could make do with ~20GB Linux partition if you're that low on space, unless you want to have a bunch of specialized software and stuff. I have a bunch of shit like logic design software, android studio, a virtual machine running Minix, android studio and shit like that you probably don't need, so you see what you need and squeeze it in.
I have a 256G SSD and a 500G external HDD and I never run out of space, just have to manage what goes where efficiently.

Doesn't work since I encrypt my Windows and every partition in it with Bitlocker + TPM2.0

Windows user here looking into fiddling with GNU/Linux
Im repairing an old laptop I used a few years ago and want to install it on there.
Im thinking of using Ubuntu/Lubuntu just to start with
The question im asking is how lightweight and different is Lubuntu compared to Ubuntu? My laptop isnt that old but I feel it would benefit from a lighter OS.
Im only using it for light browsing and media.

Way lighter, and completely different desktop environment. Try it out. The thing with Linux is even if you hate the desktop environment you can put on other ones like lxqt, mate or (my personal recommendation) xfce which is still light as fuck but with the Numix theme it looks fucking incredible and modern.

install gentoo

If the laptop has like 4G RAM you can put pretty much anything you want in it, although I always advise against normal Ubuntu. Try Ubuntu Mate, it's awesome.

Okay, sounds cool.
im considering dicking around with it since im planning on building my desktop is a few years, and I want a feel for the other side of the grass before settling down.
Im required to have Windows for my career (AutoCAD Civil3D and various programs), so I', thinking of dual-booting later on.
I'll keep that in mind. Its an Acer Aspire 4GB i3 so I guess it should be fine.

I did.

>decide old laptop is old
>install Kali on an SSD (yes, I'm retarded)
>rice it to shit in i3
>old laptop fast now, good for regular work, battery holds for 5 hours on a regular basis

I regret nothing. Most importantly, in my use case, it feels good to edit text files and have the computer do everything I need. Feels much more simpler and I can translate without any hassle.

Still use win10, but I don't do much apart from gaming on it.

When I get home from work I want to relax and watch Netflix or play some video games. Windows just werks, I don't want to go through hours of hoops just to do 1 consumer feature from windows on Linux.

Dual-booting won't work. You'll either stick to one or the other. I tried dual-booting three or four times in total and always I went back to the original OS. Now I have linux on one and windows on another machine and I'm happy.

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Me too, ma breda. However, when I work, I want something I can boot quickly and stop working in 4 seconds. Linux boots up and shuts down like crazy, it's great in commutes

Is it possible to mount the OS's on different drives, default to the Windows drive on boot, and be able to switch OS from the bios via drive boot?
I dont know if its a dumb question, im just now thinking about doing all this and havent done research into it yet, just Sup Forums memes

I am too nervous to install gentoo, I am sure ill just fuck up my pc.

Dual booting is definitely the way to go although you will use 1 OS 95% of the time, you don't have to limit yourself to one or the other. And as I said here you should be good with ~20GB of space for the Linux partition, if you mainly work on Windows.

Check out this guy's post although Kali is not the correct distro for this purpose I guarantee you'll like Linux if you're into computers. For the desktop you want to build, I suggest gather experience in Linux so you can make a fully custom Arch installation when the time comes.
If you don't need Windows on the laptop, make 2 partitions and try out, apart from Mate, Elementary OS. It has kind of a MacOS look to it, it's based on Ubuntu (which means you can use all the packages Ubuntu has) and it's pretty light.

I hate all the DEs so fucking much
there's not a single good panel

>(but this time while wearing your lucky socks)
What did they mean by this?

The Linux kernel is C not C++ faggit.

Was coding in C last century... faggit.

By the way. YOU'RE A FAGGIT!

faggit

Can someone tell me if gentoo is better than unbuntoo?
I ordered a pc just to install linux, i am tired of windows 10.
I am only interested in linux for programming, is there a way to customize the desktop and how the os looks?

>he doesnt dual-boot
imagine being this retarded

you're another faggit, get out of my Sup Forums

Sounds more complex than grub...

GRUB:
>boot
>grub loader
>spam enter for default option, else arrow down and enter
>done

UEFI/BIOS:
>boot
>beg the lord you spam the F2 key fast enough to get into UEFI
>navigate into boot menu
>pick the right drive
>save settings
>you'll stick with one OS eventually

If you want to go that route, make a partition on the HDD, put GRUB on a USB disk and I suppose it'll be
>USB in: Grub
>usb out: Windows
I may be full of shit on that one.

Or build a persistent bootable USB drive and you'll be fine, plus it's portable

As said, stay the fuck away from Kali, I'm doing all I can to turn it back into a debian system and trying to keep all the tools. I'm still trying to find the differences in security between debian 8 and kali.

>snobbery starts
In your use case, consider the choice of WM. I use i3, let me tell you why I do:
>translatorfag
>always have 2 windows side by side for source/dest text
>i3 does it on its own
>split original text window in half and open a translation dictionary in it

It's incredible and makes me feel all fuzzy.

yea, of course you can customize it, have you never seen a desktop thread

I agree that if you don't fuck with them and leave them at default, most of them look terrible. The only one I like is gnome 2, however if you mess with the settings and maybe a theme then you can make everything look great. Case and point I installed Arch on a shitty laptop I had and put KDE plasma which I fucking hate in it just to try it, and after fucking with it now I don't hate it any more.

>programming
>desktop
If you use your PC as a glorified notepad, you can go without a desktop and look full hacker.

I am new on Sup Forums. I am just nervous about installing this never done anything like this before.

Different guy, how do?

yea dude who uses android or chromebooks :^)
3/10 I replied I guess

so it is possible to multi-drive boot, just kind of annoying after a while.
I guess ill keep Linux and Windows on separate machines and use my future desktop for Windows and my current laptop for Linux later on.

it's not even the looks, it's the features
I can't find a single panel that allows the window organizer to use icons and stack them, while giving useful info on the stacked windows
All there is are some ghetto workarounds by making an app dock

Oh my god that "art" on his walls. Is he a middle schooler?

Don't worry about it, the installation process for all
Ubuntu flavors, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Elementary, Mint and whatnot is actually easier than Windows. The only hard ones are Arch, Gentoo and the like but you don't need to mess with them. Linus Torvalds (the guy who made the Linux kernel) actually uses Fedora.
Try Ubuntu Mate, Elementary OS, Fedora, and OpenSUSE and pick the one you like most.

the "giving useful info on the stacked windows" part I don't exactly understand. I think (If I understand correctly) that KDE plasma has what you want, I'm 99% sure because I tried it and thought about it just today before saying "nah" (not a jab at your opinion, I just prefer them organized a certain way I'm used to), but I don't know about the window information you want.

Install anything without a DE. Debian mini install and shit, will boot faster (some crazy fucker got to a 5 second cold boot). Internet in command line, though.

>Try Ubuntu Mate, Elementary OS, Fedora, and OpenSUSE and pick the one you like most.
Thank you I am planning to start with unbuntu mate first.

Good choice. Get a dock for it with a switch and you can go full schizo style, switching linux to windows at will.

In short, I want the panel to mimick windows' taskbar, minus the Peek
so for stacked windows of browsers it'll name the stacked tab by the title of the actual window
XFCE panel doesn't do that, it just names the both windows the same

Like in my screenshot ( ) where it says Terminal - blabla?
By default I think it separates the windows and they don't stack - which in XFCE they do stack but as you said they have the same name, although if you right click on the icon on the dock you'll see the different names. I'm sorry I never thought of that, but I do realize why anyone would use it. I can't really help.

Don't be afraid to fuck with it as much as you want, they're all made to be customized.

>Godot
You mean Cube 2 Engine.
youtube.com/watch?v=fX7o-1OH-WM

Could I do Gentoo minimal install?
And then I'm assuming you just use shell commands and something akin to vi to edit files and stuff?
Not planning on using internet on my linux machines either.

Go for it, buddy. And if you only use the shell, why bother with a desktop? As for gentoo, never used it, dunno how you'll fare, but give it a shot!

Post pics afterwards!

Not that guy but if you're really going to be programming then you need the internet for stuff like documentation, stackoverflow etc. There are command line browsers although I've never tried one, but there's literally no reason not to use a light distro with a customized XFCE desktop environment which is gonna be fast and pretty as fuck.

It's going to be cool and working if you are familiar with vi but really if you don't have a very slow laptop or another reason why make it hard for yourself?
not shitting on you just making a point. If someone really wants to feel like a hacker then I guess yeah, you have a point. It actually helps some people be more productive in the end, so who am I to judge?

No I have a job and need to actually get things done, so I use Windows.

this image is wrong on so many levels.

I've made the switch to linux mostly. I still dual boot win 7 for gaymes.

if ableton ever works well in linux, ill never use windows again

I'll likely make one partition for each. One minimal install for when I really need to get hardcore, the other desktop for less hardcore and when I want pretty pictures.
Still having this issue tho. Happened after I created a partition on my hard disk, even tho I'm booting from live usb.

It's all about choice, I went into an extreme for my circumstances with i3 and all, but unfortunately I have to read pdfs and produce docx's.

It's the gluttonous choice, I'm 90% sure he'll stick with something normal, i3 at most, but once the training wheels come off, he can do whatever the heck he wants ;-)

But you are completely correct, unless the metal is junk, he can rest easy with a desktop for stackoverflow.

I, too, have a job and I'm absolutely happy with linux. Is it perhaps the workload you're using? Or are you just a faggot who's unwilling to learn a single iota more if it's not of immediate monetary use to him?

Thanks its a spare pc so if I do fuck it up, I will fix it.

audio engineer & arch user here, doing practically anything Audio related in linux is impossible at this time. and you can also forget completely about making music in linux.

It's just a joke bro.

Yeah one partition for each would be a good approach. You can try both extensively this way.

For the other thing, I have no clue about Gentoo, but as you said you chose the hard way. Do you have any particular reason to be so afraid of systemd?

Hey friend, don't feed the trolls. If you don't pay attention to them they go away.

Worst case you just reinstall from the live usb and use a backup to restore. I've fucked around with linux way too much from when I didn't know jack shit about linux and the worst thing I did was I accidentally formatted a partition with another distro in it.

Ah, ok. I wanted to call him a faggot, but then again, you never know retardation from trolling for sure.

Damn you, Poe's law!

I'm avoiding systemd because it's trying to monopolize development on linux.
Linux is about total freedom, but systemd goes against that philosophy.

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.

May sound dumb, what is a good way to use python 2.7 in unbuntu?

Yeah yeah, carry Luigi, table 9 ordered the pasta.

If a computer leaves you quietly weeping maybe you should leave it to the adults.

MUh windows
>doesn't realize the majority of the web runs on linux.

Don't come to linux, we don't want you here. Stay in your crowded botnet bloatware piss pool.

Facebook lets me stay in touch with all my friends. It's lets me store an unlimited amount of photos and videos. They'll give me an app to do this on my phone where I can also view my private groups and events. There's a job board and an classified section that I can post to. I can even get restaurant reviews. This is all for free and I've never been asked to pay but now I'm a product. I'm a like victim, really, if you think about about. That's the narrative.

Look man. This is a value exchange. Sure if you don't understand the concept of a value exchange well shit man, your adolescence is over and it time to grow up. Is this something that really needs to be explained to people? Apps provide a commoditized service that the market will not pay for so in exchange they collect data to sell to advertisers. You know you're a “product” if you watch regaulr ol' TV, right? Those have targeted ads, too. We're not blowing the lid off of anything here. This is nothing new.

There's ardour and jack and stuff like that, the thing I had problems with was my audio interface which is discontinued now and obviously has no drivers for linux. I 100% agree that for audio recording/mixing/mastering you're better off with Windows or even better Mac. My case was mostly about video and photo editing which I've actually been able to do and didn't get stuck with any drivers.

I agree with that (though I can't bother installing Gentoo right now). I saw your post and the "serious development in Gentoo because CIA" made me assume it was for privacy reasons.
Can you point me to a good article about what you're saying about the monopolizing thing though? I'm interested in operating systems and had it on my list in the summer to try and learn more about the kernel and maybe even contribute some small stuff to some distro.

Ubuntu I'm pretty sure comes standard with both python 2.7 and 3.x, and there's the python IDE called IDLE for both of them. I don't use python that much, only for small scripts and stuff, but if you tell me what you want to be doing maybe I or some other user can help.

Using Linix on my Gaming Laptop

I am currently learning python before I start school. I've been interested in programming and my goal is to make a text game with python.

> read pdfs
What prevents you from reading pdf when using i3?
> produce docx
Same question?

Fellow i3 user here

It's my own conclusion and opinion.
Just look at systemd itself and you'll understand where I'm coming from.
For example, the fact that most distros are being forced to use it now, and its aim is to "unify" linux distros. That just sounds like some real 1984 shit to me and I don't want to be a part of it.

> alienware
go kill yourself, Sup Forumsidiot

I wasn't talking about using i3 and being unable to do those, I meant to say that in the terminal-only system without a DM or a WM I couldn't.

goims want think that there is no alternative.
switched about 2 years ago, wont go back never.
PS. $(sed 's/ linux/GNU\/Linux/g)
>As I said, if it's not your actual job, you can make do, with great results for that matter, with free software in Linux.
this.
KEK. this. screenshot made.
>encrypt my Windows
pic rel

But Linux has no games, your shitposting is ineffective.

ah, seems like i misunderstood

More likely I didn't express myself well enough. I should practise that, being a translatorfag and all :^)

>that image supposedly being a "fail"
If you're going to cut a zip tie to get in, who's to say you wouldn't be the type of guy to use boltcutters and killed the lock?

I can cut a ziptie with stuff on my person. I'd need to bring my bolt cutters to actually destroy the lock.

In the pic, I wouldn't damage the lock because I'm not an utter retard. I'd bring it home, pick it open, repin it and use it smartly.