B-but I need Windows software for work

>B-but I need Windows software for work
Is there a worse excuse people give for using proprietary operating systems?

>implying I need an excuse
I'd rather use my computer than maintain it, freetard.

You're not using it, you're being used.

>be jobless neet freetard
>hurr i dont have a job cuz jobz does not respect muh freedumbs

>letting your boss force you to use malware
Could you be more of a boot licker

Nobody needs an excuse to use whatever suits their needs. Nobody needs to justify anything to you.

The fuck does that mean? Are you retarded?

Can't get ISTA-P on linux

there is an idiom:
>if the product is free,you are the product

It's not free.

Funny because if you used windows at my workplace you'd get laughed at

It means you are being used by your software. You aren't the user, you are the used.
If someone uses Windows at all they should be laughed at.

But it's true. In some jobs you can't really avoid it. Try, for example, running a marketing department solely on Linux. in itself it's possible, but the free software alternatives are way too unpolished to be a real alternative. You're going to lose time and time is money in business as clichéd as it sounds.

t. private linux user

What's more important to you, money or freedom? This will tell me whether you were born a slave or a master.

You are posting on this board for free so please fuck the fuck off because this makes you a product and that, according to you, is unacceptable.

Free as in freedom, not free of charge. Say gratis or free of charge if you want to use it in that sense.

having a job is the worst kind of excuse!
quit your job, go full open source neet, today.

oh wait, I too have a wageslave enterprise cucktop, kill me now

Fuck off. Windows is free of charge and not free as freedom. Sup Forums is free of charge and not free as freedom. If you are against Windows on the grounds of being free of charge, then you also are against posting on Sup Forums so please go, go, go and stay go.

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>Windows is free of charge
No it isn't.
>If you are against Windows on the grounds of being free of charge
No, I'm not against anything being free of charge. I don't care about the money involved, I care about the freedom.

Then don't butt in. I'm not talking to you.

>>Windows is free of charge
>No it isn't.

Plenty. Needing it for work isn't a *great* reason, but it's a better reason than "it's what I know" or "I don't want to use a command line ever".

>I'd rather use my computer than maintain it, freetard.
In my experience Windows needs more maintaining than Linux, but whatever. YMMV.

Go ask them for a free licence without a product key.

>What's more important, making money or going out of business?

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When did I say that? I didn't.

I need to use Adobe and Autodesk software and wine doesn't cut it.

Pretty simple really.

your mommy is not going to be around forever, user
>yfw you enter workforce and your only skill is unfucking desktop linux repeatedly

That's the logical consequence. You're either efficient or you bust.

>windows
>click on stuff and it works

>linux
>have to do command line shit all day long to do basic operations

no thanks

>have to do command line shit all day long to do basic operations

It's not 1996 anymore.

Then quote me properly or not at all.
You made a silly statement now you are going to spam old memes. Good one.
Using Wangblows isn't a skill, anyone could do it.
The terminal is both far more efficient and responsive. Having a GUI for everything is just dumb

>Then quote me properly or not at all.

Do you have brain problems?

Oh, you're one of those Sup Forumstards who doesn't know what quoting actually is.

Deflecting won't help you.

From what? You just don't know how quoting actually works. You think ">" is called a greentext and is used for memes. It is actually used to quote another poster and has been used as such since long before Sup Forums.

>From what?

Your original point. No one cares about your autistic explanation of the fucking quote function.

Your post was worthless, you're treating a bullshit idiom as gospel.

>Having a GUI for everything is just dumb
Good luck at editing images without GUI.

Nice leap.

>Making money is worthless in business

or doing anything for that matter lol

Nah, I need my OS to work and that's where GNU/Linux fails

see
Nice meme quotation, Sup Forumstard.

>still deflecting hard

How is pointing out your leap in logic deflection?

>mac
>windows
>free
pick less than one


braindead

If you've ever contributed to a large document with vectors, images and complex formatting.. You'd understand that you need to have the exact same version of MS office on the same platform for it to work properly. Not everyone can contribute to a latex document.

If you've ever designed a distributed antenna system for an airport, or a wireless network for a hotel, you'd understand that you need a reliable enterprise product with a subscription. This is pennies compared to the payout of the contract.

Designing wifi networks, etc

99% of the time at work it costs more time to fuck with WINE and make the software work, then install windows, time time time.. In that time you could just have windows already and get the job done right and have happy clients. For everything else, there's linux.

Get a job neckbeard.

>actually spending such many letters in this thread

So you're saying that you need to be used by Wangblows because everyone else uses it and you're too dumb to write programs for your purpose?

While I personally use gnu/linux at work, I get why it is not an option for everyone.
There is a lack of professional tools for a lot of professions.
When people complain about no good replacement for photoshop, outlook and inventor, it means that those alternatives are only good enough for hobby use, not that they don't exist.

Where's the gui for the device manager?(that includes usb devices too)

>Not everyone can contribute to a latex document.
I just had a doctor contribute to a latex document through sharelatex.
And doctors are the least technical people I can work with.
udev-discover?
usb-storage either gets automatically mounted or there is an option to do so in most file managers so there is no need for that.

>wasting your time and money on what your competitors can do faster with ready tools

Did you program and compile the web browser you're using right now? You don't have to use winblows if you don't really want to, but good luck finding actual mainstream alternatives without paying someone. I have never seen someone so aggressively autistic about proprietary software.

Yeah, why do something yourself when you can pay someone to do it? Fuck being self reliant! Just rely on malware from big corporations to do what you need.

Sent from my iPad

Linux doesn't need and therefore doesn't have a device manager in the way you're thinking of. The few device drivers that aren't included in the kernel are generally installed via the package manager, and there's plenty of GUI options for those.

It's really funny to me that you think a computer OS has any meaningful impact on your freedom in this world.

>winblows

t. boot licker

If paying someone to do it saves me time then it's worth it 9 times out of ten. If you're too young or too poor to understand this then fuck off

Wow, linux crowd really makes a solid point here by acting precisely like rebellious teenagers. I'm surprised they didn't call anyone a conformist yet.

You purposefully install malware on your machine?
GNU+Linux, actually. I'm not talking about Android or something.

And are you self reliant, user?
You have a computer made by enemies.

Seeing enemies where there are none is a state of mind called paranoia.

Chinks aren't your enemies?

This. "Self reliant" is a nice ideal, but in practical terms there are limits to how self reliant you can be and still get anything else done.

Why buy that meat diced when you can dice it yourself? Why buy that cut of meat when you can buy the whole cow and butcher it yourself? Why buy a cow when you can raise one from a calf yourself? Why buy a calf when you can breed them yourself?

And the knife you use to cut it, why buy a knife when you can forge one yourself? The metal you use to forge it, why buy it when you can mine it from the ground yourself?

Repeat ad nauseam for everything you use.

Chinks are forced to make that stuff, they don't have a say about it.

I've never met one, why should they be?

Why eat meat at all? I have my own ethical garden to get eats from.

I need Adobe softwares. Wine is not run there correctly.

>Entirety of human civilazation and greatness is built on collaborated efforts
>Bruh you gotta be self reliant bruh

It's not just about the meat, dude.

Why do u even care about what I'm doing in the privacy of my own home? Do you not respect privacy?

When you don't care about your privacy I will.

>people who care about licensing and need source code access to examine the machine code they execute
>people who value "freedom" while running proprietary hardware and code they haven't even compiled themselves
How does it feel to be a fucking PLEB?

You're infected with intel management engine either way.

Muh vidya

That would be like an aphorism or a proverb or something.

An idiom is a common phrase whose meaning isn't derived literally from the words, like "he kicked the bucket" to mean he died.

"a saying"

I like video games and while linux has plenty of good stuff to play, its nvidia drivers have been giving me devastating microstutter.

FREETARD BTFOED THEMSELF

>windows needs more maintaining
Certainly does. I'm stuck for OPs reasons. Professionally.
It's a nightmare. With Linux it just werks.

absolute kek
FREETARDS BTFO

it's not an excuse, it's one of the reasons
of course you stupid autistic fucks wouldn't understand it. but nobody cares, since you're irrelevant in the real world anyway
I hope one day you guys become normal

I could probably get all my work done on linux distro but all DMs are ugly as fuck and brake the whole OS.