Guys, using Linux as a desktop OS is just a waste of time

Guys, using Linux as a desktop OS is just a waste of time.

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I dont see any worthwhile program in your taskbar, so please, enlighten me, how does Windows beat linux?

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works well enough on my laptop that I use 4+ hours a day
>tfw only loose uptime to forgetting to charge battery overnight and having sleep drain it completely

Guys, shitposting about Linux as a desktop OS is just a waste of time.

evidently you're missing microsoft office, which has no equivalent on linux that isn't a pathetic half-assed attempt that has at best 15% of the features (libreoffice).

You've also forgotten about Adobe's software, such as photoshop, which has no equivalent on linux that isn't a pathetic half-assed attempt that has at best 15% of the features (gimp)

You're also missing foobar2000, most decent disc authoring software, k-lite codecs (no MPV meme, we're being serious here)


Let's put it the other way around: list something for linux that has no equivalent on windows.


Absolutely agree Linux takes the cake on servers but it has no place on the ordinary person's desktop.

>list something for linux that has no equivalent on windows.
functional built in package management
>ms office or adobe
what is WINE
what is running that shit in a VM because that's the only reason you need windows

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.

>No. 64162675
Say that to the most efficient ptogrammer, ever.

waiting for "Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry Service", "Antimalware Service Executable" and "Windows Modules Installer Worker" to finish hogging up my CPU is a waste of time

>you're missing microsoft office
Office works just fine, I just choose to use LaTeX instead.
>photoshop
I don't use that so I don't really care.
>foobar
cmus
>disc authoring
k3b or brasero isn't good enough?
>k-lite
Why not mpv? optical discs is meme technology and you seem to be fine with memes.

>other way around:
Better software management, better window managers, better scripting interface, better debugging tools.

I don't even agree that linux is the best on servers.
If free software have failed in any way, it is on the server market.
Windows might not dominate in all server aspects, but they dominate in a lot of important ones if not the only important one:
The idea of a server and a client.
It scares normies away from running server software and makes developers think server software shouildn't be for normies which have lead to a situation where a lot of people use services like dropbox, facebook etc.

woke

Living is a waste of time, you fucking retard

Not OP, I prefer Linux myself and I'm currently using it. But man, trying to get Photoshop (not to mention other Adobe stuff) running via Wine more than once without any lasting issues is experience I would compare to sticking a barbed wire through your anus.

I was not yet able to make it run more than once, even though I very carefully followed every step-by-step on the internet. And GIMP just sucks, it's a shitty software which is NOT usable in any mid-tier graphic design work and above. Life is suffering for a graphic designer when you don't want Wangblows or you are not a homosexual with a Mac.

Other than that and gaming, Linux is better.

Actually, Linux gets the job done.
I use Windows only to play games, i.e. waste my time.

Photoshop works just fine on Linux.

It does not. It can work, but to call it "fine" is laughable. Are you using it yourself? Especially for some at least bit advanced work?

Everything wastes time.
Prove me wrong!

Time is an illusion and you can't waste what is inherently non existent because:

I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're referring to as time, is in fact, space-time or as I've recently taken to calling it, space plus time. Time is not an physical property unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning reality made useful by the laws of physics, force fields and baryons comprising a full universe as defined by the english language.

in your (shitty) opinion

Putting up with Microsoft's bullshit is just a waste of time.

Name two "advanced" features GIMP doesn't have that you absolutely depend on in your "advanced" workflow, shithead.
Also, give us an example of your divine work, Pajeet.

99% of MS Office users don't know what a fucking style is, but hey they can't work without Ribbon interface.

It's not about "advanced workflow" (whatever the fuck you mean by that) but about streamlined workflow process which doesn't fuck you over/slows you down by it's inherently retarded design choices (which cannot be fixed by modding the GIMP to look like Photoshop, which alone tells you a lot). Adobe may be hyperjews, but they got their GUI, functionality and the whole environment right as rain, simple enough but most importantly smooth and logically sound. There is a fucking reason why no serious designer doesn't use GIMP and those people being mostly homoerotic hipster cunts is not it.

That generally summarizes it as a whole too - GIMP is actually functionality-wise powerful tool. But it fails badly on that I mention above.

Also I'm not this user you fucking dumb malnourished african.

b-but I love my Leap 42.3...

Oh, my apologies, sir. You do sound like someone who could afford to buy the whole Creative Suite Master Edition and actually use it. So stop being a faggot and use your tools on supported platform and play with Linux in your free time.
And if you're so clever write a proposal to GIMP devs on how to refactor the GUI to fit your mid-tier and above meisterwerk, twat.

Fuck, you are one dense retard.

chromeos all you need. lets be fucking real everythings avalible on internet now and yall just shitpost all day anyways

Latex makes word and power point absolutely obsolete.
I don't know why my teachers in school ever told me to use such garbage software like word when Latex exists.

Windows doesn't even have a tiling wm or package management, what a piece of trash.

can't rice it though to impress other Sup Forums-tards

>list something for linux that has no equivalent on windows
a lot of command line programs that depend on POSIX system calls, package managers, window managers, init systems, features of the kernel itself, services that I can actually configure and control (there's nothing equivalent to just wpa_supplicant+dhcpcd with a simple config for wifi, acpid that I can configure how I'd like, a nice system logger, etc), configurable kernel, etc

there's lots of good stuff I'd miss on windows besides simple programs, like unix pipes, the "everything is a file" model, sysfs, devfs, tmpfs, the ability to run on my system whatever I want and however I want and make it as minimal as I want, the ability to control and configure almost everything, to disable/enable features of individual programs prior to compilation, the modular nature of the system, the ability to understand how anything works, and in general the unix model is superior to windows in every way

This

>kde

Probably, but unfortunately it runs my required software only.

there is literally nothing, and I mean NOTHING, wrong with KDE.
do you get that?

What's wrong with it? Did you miss the recent Wine updates that make it work better?

>Let's put it the other way around: list something for linux that has no equivalent on windows.
Innumerable libraries and packages required for programming.

>$.02 has been deposited to your account
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This. I use windows on my desktop btw

>no place on the ordinary person's desktop
>tfw this part is the only true part of your shitpost

Using Debian stable is fine. It's almost like Windows if you use Cinnamon.

Translation: "The UI is different than the one I'm used to"