This spyware's common name is Windows 10 but people of high culture call it NSAos. This software disguises itself as an operating system but ask yourself this; who is operating who?!!! :think-about-it: Ads, forced updates, bloatware and the fucking data collection!! You aren't in the driver seat, this spyware is doing the driving!

Today is your lucky day though as I come with good news :meow-fiesta: there is a free open-source and privacy respecting operating system called Linux. This Linux thing is the backbone of the whole internet and Android is based on it.

You can do everything on Linux; from using Firefox or Spotify to playing your games... there is even a Linux program called WINE which allows you to run quite a lot of Windows games and programs as if they were native to Linux

With Linux, you are in full control, you doing the driving yourself, comrade!! So come to the penguins' side :penguin-dance: and reject the evil corporation.

I suggest you check out the Linux distribution Kubuntu... Manjaro KDE for those feeling a bit brave.

This post is for you to share your concerns about Linux with us or why you are hesitant. If you are a Linux user then tell us about how lovely it's been.

PS: any negative comments about Linux will result in a ban, the mods are onboard with this :)

Edit: and join us at !libre for everything open source.

Edit: on Linux, you get all your software from one place and you can easily update them from there.

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Video games are already broken and buggy enough when not run on some translation layer virtual machine thingy. I couldn't imagine how broken they'd get on WINE, not to mention that it becomes harder to install them probably. Video games on Linux will only become popular if the command line becomes obsolete for most people, which it hasn't and won't because the companies that fund Linux development are mainly interested in servers.

    • unperson [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Why don't you try it instead of running FUD for Microsoft? Steam has integrated wine and enabling it is just a right click / properties / check the compatibility layer box. Anything without anti-cheat works perfectly.

      The command line is already unnecessary for most people, and anyway it's much better in every way than the wizards and weird multi-panel UIs Windows has for everything (think group policy, regedit, property dialogs from the nineties tucked in the corner of the modern settings interface, and so on). It's more flexible, more powerful, easier to give instructions over chat when your comrades need help, and you'll never end up downloading random exes over the Internet from sketchy ftps to attempt to fix your problem.

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah most Linux distros are better in almost every way than Windows but "the year of the Linux desktop" is always a little eye-roll-y. I agree it's probably much nicer to use Linux for anything else. LibreOffice is almost preferrable to Word and there are more tools and cool utilities and things to install.

        • quarantine_man [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah most Linux distros are better in almost every way than Windows but “the year of the Linux desktop” is always a little eye-roll-y.

          agreed

    • Pirate [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      WINE isn't a virtual machine btw it's a compatibility layer... WINE is actually an acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator :)

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Right it's a "translation layer" like the more recent Windows Subsystem for Linux. From what I understand they still use the VM infrastructure of CPUs to hook the system calls and stuff and translate them to Linux system calls.