PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?

[Kalahari Inkantation]

[don't let's]

dos

[YPrrrr]

Windows only way to goes

[ME##]

Windows 10 bitches

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

windows 8

[C.Mongler]

Windows 10 at home, 7 at work

[bluaki]

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.

but seriously I guess I'm the only desktop linux user here. I switch to Windows less than once a year on average probably.

[strongbad]

@bluaki

Yes but everyone calls it Linux and it also rolls off the tongue much better than GNU/Linux. I think that outside of circles of Linux nerds it doesn't make much of a difference for people's understanding anyway

[Mando Pandango]

WHY DON'T THEY EAT THE BONES

[ClassicTyler]

WHY DON'T THEY EAT THE BONES

They're quitters.

[bluaki]

@bluaki

Yes but everyone calls it Linux and it also rolls off the tongue much better than GNU/Linux. I think that outside of circles of Linux nerds it doesn't make much of a difference for people's understanding anyway

I was just joking, I don't actually call it "GNU/Linux" myself. That's just a popular copypasta.

Here's something that's not copypasta: I think using "GNU/Linux" instead of just "Linux" is actually somewhat more misleading. In practice, the whole "GNU" part of the system doesn't matter that much to the end user experience. You can use a different shell than bash, you can use some other coreutils like busybox, you can use some other compiler like LLVM, etc, and none of those changes actually affects your desktop experience at all unless you mess with terminal stuff. If someone wants to be pedantic, a specific description of the components that affect UX the most for a particular system would be something more like "X11/KDE/systemd/dpkg/Linux". Or just call it "Ubuntu" or "Kubuntu" or "Debian" or whatever. Some people like to use "GNU/Linux" to distinguish desktop and server Linux from Android and other flavors of embedded Linux while collectively referring to RedHat/Debian/Ubuntu/etc, but really just calling it "Desktop Linux" is both more descriptive and easier to understand.

[strongbad]

O I'm a tool u got me lol
I think you have about 100x the GNU/Linux knowledge that I do lol

[Kalahari Inkantation]

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.

but seriously I guess I'm the only desktop linux user here. I switch to Windows less than once a year on average probably.

lol

windows 8

w-why

Windows 10 at home, 7 at work

ballmer in the streets, nadella in the sheets

honestly i can't believe there are so many windows plebs on boyah of all places

justify you'reself's

and what happened to all our mac users

[C.Mongler]

I can't play forza horizon 3 on anything else



That's really about it

[don't let's]

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.

but seriously I guess I'm the only desktop linux user here. I switch to Windows less than once a year on average probably.

lol

windows 8

w-why

Windows 10 at home, 7 at work

ballmer in the streets, nadella in the sheets

honestly i can't believe there are so many windows plebs on boyah of all places

justify you'reself's

and what happened to all our mac users

Mac is the devil's sperm bank