>>3637 Do you have Gentoo?

How long is your beard?

have you ever fucked

What desktop computer are you using? Is it a built PC?

>>3640 I started out with Mandrake 7.2. Switched to Debian because of the bigger repositories. Switched to Ubuntu after it came out, then switched to Crunchbang when Ubuntu started using the Unity desktop. After Crunchbang was abandoned I switched to Devuan because of systemd. That is what I'm using now >>3641 Not long enough >>3643 I used a desktop in school. Switched to Thinkpads after graduation and used them up until the Lenovo era. Now I'm back to a desktop. It's custom built, but nothing fancy. I basically just buy the motherboard and the bare minimum hardware to get it to work. Drivers have gotten a lot better. You used to need to buy a Matrox video card and US Robotics modem if you didn't want to fuck around with buggy drivers.

>>3637 Slackware, Ubuntu, gentoo are the only distros that you should be using. BSDs are much better

>>3637 What do you think about how GNU/Linux has changed over the years? How old are you? When are you switching to BSD?

>>3653 Ubuntu is an absolute trash

>>3653 Any rationale for this particular brain fart? >What do you think about how GNU/Linux has changed over the years? Sound support's better but still too complicated. OSS was the right solution. Wireless support is great. I can finally install an OS without a second PC to Google how to get the internet working. I thought there would be a single-user alternative to X windows by now, but there isn't (I don't consider Wayland a serious effort based on their track record). Graphics drivers, dualhead and OpenGL support are much, much better (and simpler) than when I started. GL stagnated after they went to programmable shaders though. jwz was right about the API Games are a lot better after the example set by Humble Bundle. Le furry jew really did us a favor by requiring no DRM, cross-platform builds, and compiling everything static. I don't use a desktop environment, but every time I upgrade I give them a try and they've literally gone backward every year since 2001. Linus was right about XML Audio players, ebook readers, etc. have stagnated because people focus their efforts on the mobile versions. Still haven't found the perfect file manager. Overall, the best development is the adoption of Linux by anyone doing serious work. The worst development is the proliferation of scripting languages. >When are you switching to BSD? When I see people making themes based on bands and sports teams. If there are no desktop themes, or they're based on some marginalized pariah group like antifa or anime fans, that means the system hasn't achieved wide adoption and is still a theoretical circle jerk. Software can't be a sekrit klub because there's no hard-and-fast rule for recognizing a good programmer. You have to make it easy for everyone to contribute and then the good stuff will rise to the top.

>>3653 >ubuntu Niggertier.

>>3647 How's Devuan? I've been looking for a distro to replace my w7 system, void seemed like a good choice but I don't know what the fuck is going on with that.

>>3774 It's OK. I don't get too into the details of my distro unless something is holding me back. IIRC I had some trouble removing Pulseaudio, but no problems now that it's gone.

>>3887 What are you using now? I remember pulseaudio being a bitch back when I used void.

>>3887 Do you administer any servers and if so do you have the same opinion of BSD there? What distro best for server?

>>3647 What are the system specs? I hope you got your parts you wanted before the price hike. It would be pointless to build if it performs worse than an average laptop.

>>4017 >that aesthetic >competition's 3D decelerators I wish modern advertising wasn't so gay.

>>4019 There's no need for companies to actually be aggressive in their advertising (in earnest or otherwise) if they're essentially in bed with each other and have conditioned customers into buying both of their products (I have no conclusive proof of this, but it seems likely given how sterile ads are and how "competition" between large corporations seems non-existent (see how Steam seems to be very neutral to the EGS despite it seemingly being its most potent rival yet, for what seems to be an ongoing example of this).

>>4020 It's not just that, though company banter is fun, advertising it's just shit in general. Rather than fun shit that at least tried now it's just generic dancing man because humans connect with dance. Just because mass marketing is inherently soulless it doesn't mean it should also be externally soulless.

>>3653 >>3702 this, since installing 20.04 LTS there's been nothing but freezes due to memory leaks on new systems at the office, we had to switch to Debian. It's become "known" now with canonical and it seems like they don't give a fuck.

>>4025 I'm aware of all of this, but "advertising is just bad in general" doesn't adequately explain why it seems to have gotten even more insufferable and boring at the same time; I'm offering what seems to be the best explanation as to why advertising isn't even entertaining like it used to be not that long ago or why corporate competition doesn't seem to exist. >>4043 Why even use Ubuntu in the first place if it seems to be the exact same sort of nonsense that you would try to avoid using Windows for?

>>4019 The world needed more people like Widlar.

>>3955 ALSA. It is my understanding that using ALSA means fewer layers of lasagna code between the kernel and me. It isn't problem-free, but it is a good heuristic for good software, because software that depends on pulseaudio/systemd tends to be poorly written. >>3989 I'm not a webmaster, but I run servers for my own purposes (file storage, family website). I'm less picky about what distro I use for a server because I don't need as many programs as I do on a workstation. >>4017 >It would be pointless to build if it performs worse than an average laptop Now hold on there, there are many valid reasons to have an underpowered machine. I've actually underclocked some of my systems to cut down on on fan noise. And performance is only part of the story. For me, long term reliability and upgradeability are far more important, and desktops far exceed laptops in this respect. >>4046 That's quite witty, but putting the competitor's name in your ad is a sign of weakness tbh

>>3642 no

>>3637 do you glow?

>>4573 I should've worded that properly: I did not mean to say "performs worse," but rather a worse experience to configure due to ridiculous and unnecessary garbage that laptops and even some computer parts have. A prime example would be the various UEFI quirks on laptops. I'll assume that your underclocked machine allows for that control without any proprietary junk in the first place, unless you happen to have one for some reason.

>>3637 Seeing these kinds of old pictures of tech nerds in the good old days saddens me. If this was today I think at least 2 of these guys would be trannies, and another would be wearing an Antifa or BLM t-shirt.

>>4747 We're still there, just underground. We're not going anywhere, fuck ZOG.

I've been using Linux on my cellphone for several years, AMA

>>4747 >>4850 Are you faggots proud of looking like those absolute nerds?

>>4875 Do you think they would look better wearing wigs, maternity dresses and bad makeup? Fuck off back to Discord, tranny.

>>3637 Are there any distributions that use a window manager as the default environment, rather than a desktop? I fell in love with fluxbox while trying out slackware, but I'm not smart or patient enough to use slackware to any effective degree. So I switched to fedora, which is very easy to use but is very ugly in my opinion

>>4890 Or you can just look anything other than a total sperg or a tranny