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[–] robinofthehood ago 

I use WIndows 10 for 8 hours a day every weekday. When I come home it's Ubuntu, though I have a choice of any OS for free.

It just works.

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[–] Ghetto_Shitlord ago 

My MFP just works? Not.

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[–] robinofthehood ago 

Unlucky.

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[–] NarrativeControl 1 point 5 points (+6|-1) ago 

Another shitty article. I don't even need to read it to know it's shit.

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[–] tentra 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I read it, it's definitely shit.

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[–] jerkwad152 0 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Why You Should Be Using Linux BSD.

FTFY. Linux has a massive CoC jammed up its hindquarters, remember?

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[–] libman 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago  (edited ago)

At least BSDs aren't fucked for all eternity with (((automagical contracts))) like GPL.

Only FreeBSD is CoCed, but you can still "take the source code and run", no strings attached.

OpenBSD is as free as you can get.

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[–] TerraKell 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

I have been a Linux user for over 10 years, starting with OpenSuse 9. I purchased a HP notebook with XP Home and Best Buys, et al, left the firewall turned off. I set it up as dual-boot so that I could research how to fix the XP virus issues. The virus find4you was a challenge to find and fix.

I have had Reiser file system corruptions, hardware issues like modem drivers, Firefox causing whole system to freeze, poor printer drivers that will work in one distro but not in another, scanners that will not work in Linux, along with a few other problems. So I use VirtualBox and a licensed copy of XP Pro for the software that Linux does not have or do well; I get a copy of XP Pro the way I like it and then clone it so that I am using the clone and do not care if that becomes corrupted as I can make a new clone and use that one. File transfer is easy between VirtualBox and Linux and the VirtualBox even handles USB drives.

Then there is the issue of end of service life and the new version of OpenSuse that will not run the same programs that the EOS version did well; the upgrade did not work. That said, I am now using MXLinux and the VirtualBox file container easily copied from the old system to the new one with minimal problems. It is amazing how fast and stable it is with a 10-year-old motherboard, 4-core AMD processor, 16 GB RAM, and 1 TB SSD. I found that 10 GB is about right for the XP container.

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[–] generate ago 

hm, VS 2019 won't run on XP I guess?

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[–] CaptnObvius 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

As opposed as getting into a long debate about pros/cons, what we need are simply more people to just give it a try. I ask people to use an older computer to install it first, and give it an honest try, you'll have to familiarize yourself with it, but if you can get over that little initial hump, you are doing yourself and the world a favor. Help us help others, make its use grow. Make it the default desktop OS one day. Push the 'old Guard' Microsoft out.

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[–] Belrick 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

windows 10 blatantly transferred ownership of the op sys from the pc owner to Microsoft

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[–] B3bomber 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

It's worse than that. Any compiled code on win10 using m$ tools has a sample uploaded to m$ servers for "malicious code inspection" by default unless you uncheck the box (I'm so ssuuuuuuuurrrrreeee that will disable that "feature").

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[–] CaptnObvius ago 

and for those people that say "Linux is too hard", I say, nothing in life worth having is easy or free.

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[–] Wahaha 0 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago 

tl;dr

It's free, you're in control and can do pretty much anything you could do on Windows, except for some games.

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[–] trotskyberg ago 

Except proaudio and provided and proapplications of various sorts. Then you need kvm with windows or osx guest.

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[–] YoureAFaggotHarry ago 

Wow, sounds exactly like ReactOS except you can do exactly everything you can do on Windows, including all those games.

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[–] B3bomber 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

That's the goal. Please don't give people false pretense of it being anything more and an alpha level development project. I'm watching its development.

Sadly I can't contribute either with code or money. Yay fun life issues.

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[–] Napierdalator 0 points 19 points (+19|-0) ago 

can do pretty much anything you could do on Windows, except for some games

Maybe you're lucky enough to not have to use software that simply has no linux version/counterpart and doesn't run on wine. This statement, repeated by software devs, admins and people using only a browser and an e-mail client is simply false. My highly educational journey into youcandoanythingonlinuxland ended with getting a kvm and a second pc that runs linux for browsing and personal stuff, while the main rig runs windows.

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[–] uvulectomy ago 

Why not just run Windows under VirtualBox? You get to run the apps you need, with the added benefit of them being sandboxed from the rest of your system. And if something goes to shit, you can just roll back to a recent snapshot and it's like it never happened.

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[–] Master_Foo 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

What software specifically do you need? There probably is an equivalent, you or your company are just too lazy to switch or vendor locked yourself.

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[–] Hyst 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Whenever I hear people say this, they never specify the software they need. Just seems odd to me.

edit; Long back and forth between the guy responding to me is hilarious. He ends up acknowledging that yes in fact he could do everything on Linux if he so desired, but acts like a complete and utter cunt about it. Typical faggot that clings to Windows. There's obviously a reason he left out what programs he wanted to use at first, because he's probably done this before and had someone explain to him that there is Linux versions of what he needs. He just knows how to use the Windows programs and doesn't want to switch over. Fair enough-- but just fucking acknowledge that instead of pretending like there isn't an alternative on Linux.

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[–] Wahaha 3 points 1 point (+4|-3) ago 

Whatever software it is, you can just write it yourself. Doing it the Linux way. \s

Personally, I have yet to encounter any software I need that doesn't have an equivalent for Linux. If all you're doing is browsing and reading email you don't even need a PC. Just get a tablet or something.

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[–] Ghetto_Shitlord 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

I can use the staple option on my multifunction printer?

Hey, you said anything.

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[–] Wahaha 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I said pretty much anything. And I'm fairly sure whatever it is you are talking about can be made to work if you just write the driver for it yourself. You might have to reverse-engineer the printer, though.

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