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Poll
Question: y/n
Option 1: Windows votes: 9
Option 2: MacOS votes: 0
Option 3: Linux & Friends (including Chrome OS) votes: 1
Option 4: Other votes: 0
Title: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: Kalahari Inkantation on September 24, 2018, 04:40:44 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/5ZV8zA1.jpg)
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: don't let's on September 24, 2018, 05:24:53 PM
dos
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: YPrrrr on September 24, 2018, 06:11:01 PM
Windows only way to goes
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: ME## on September 24, 2018, 08:29:59 PM
Windows 10 bitches
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: The Hand That Fisted Everyone on September 24, 2018, 10:16:48 PM
windows 8
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: C.Mongler on September 25, 2018, 06:23:25 AM
Windows 10 at home, 7 at work
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: bluaki on September 25, 2018, 09:02:42 AM
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.
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: strongbad on September 25, 2018, 10:40:55 AM
@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
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: Mando Pandango on September 25, 2018, 11:00:18 AM
WHY DON'T THEY EAT THE BONES
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: ClassicTyler on September 25, 2018, 11:14:02 AM
Quote from: Mandark on September 25, 2018, 11:00:18 AMWHY DON'T THEY EAT THE BONES
They're quitters.
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: bluaki on September 25, 2018, 12:24:52 PM
Quote from: antmaster5000 on September 25, 2018, 10:40:55 AM@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.
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: strongbad on September 25, 2018, 01:09:48 PM
O I'm a tool u got me lol
I think you have about 100x the GNU/Linux knowledge that I do lol
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: Kalahari Inkantation on September 25, 2018, 02:28:03 PM
Quote from: bluaki on September 25, 2018, 09:02:42 AMI'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 goowan

Quote from: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo on September 24, 2018, 10:16:48 PMwindows 8


w-why myface;

Quote from: C.Mongler on September 25, 2018, 06:23:25 AMWindows 10 at home, 7 at work

ballmer in the streets, nadella in the sheets cmongler;

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 wry
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: C.Mongler on September 25, 2018, 04:04:34 PM
I can't play forza horizon 3 on anything else



That's really about it
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: don't let's on September 25, 2018, 04:11:01 PM
Quote from: Magyarorszag on September 25, 2018, 02:28:03 PM
Quote from: bluaki on September 25, 2018, 09:02:42 AMI'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 goowan

Quote from: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo on September 24, 2018, 10:16:48 PMwindows 8


w-why myface;

Quote from: C.Mongler on September 25, 2018, 06:23:25 AMWindows 10 at home, 7 at work

ballmer in the streets, nadella in the sheets cmongler;

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 wry

Mac is the devil's sperm bank
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: Samus Aran on September 26, 2018, 11:14:35 PM
Quote from: Magyarorszag on September 25, 2018, 02:28:03 PMand what happened to all our mac users wry

well i stopped being loyal to apple/macintosh because i stopped being an idiot
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: Samus Aran on September 26, 2018, 11:17:23 PM
also fucked up that jef raskin couldn't spell names of apples correctly

(it's actually "McIntosh")
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: Thyme on September 27, 2018, 09:45:09 AM
Quote from: Samus Aran on September 26, 2018, 11:14:35 PM
Quote from: Magyarorszag on September 25, 2018, 02:28:03 PMand what happened to all our mac users wry

well i stopped being loyal to apple/macintosh because i stopped being an idiot

nice
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: Kalahari Inkantation on September 27, 2018, 08:19:22 PM
Quote from: ClassicTyler on September 25, 2018, 11:14:02 AM
Quote from: Mandark on September 25, 2018, 11:00:18 AMWHY DON'T THEY EAT THE BONES
They're quitters.

it's quite an apt metaphor for the sorry state of linux
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: ClassicTyler on September 28, 2018, 10:23:17 PM
Also Windows 10
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: Cosmic Ada on September 29, 2018, 04:10:23 AM
Windows because of games. Otherwise I'd probably use KDE Neon or something.
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: don't let's on October 09, 2018, 02:35:55 PM
Quote from: Magyarorszag on September 25, 2018, 02:28:03 PMand what happened to all our mac users wry

[youtube]https://youtu.be/o2_SZ4tfLns?[/youtube]
Title: Re: PotD: What's your primary desktop OS?
Post by: The artist formally known on October 09, 2018, 10:38:17 PM
Quote from: don't let's on October 09, 2018, 02:35:55 PM
Quote from: Magyarorszag on September 25, 2018, 02:28:03 PMand what happened to all our mac users wry

[youtube]https://youtu.be/o2_SZ4tfLns?[/youtube]
lol ifixit, my buddies worked there