because I didn't pay for windows and im not putting linux on my desktop

>>31407744

because your pissant needs don't come near my enterprise needs

1. Most people don't even know what GNU/Linux is or what an operating system is.

2. GNU/Linux has irrevocably failed in the desktop world. The only reason it works for us is because we've grown used to it. Becoming an arrogant condescending retard to Windows users and telling them that GUI is for hand-holding babies probably doesn't help either. A laptop running Windows is like a utensil, everything just works with little effort as well, you have your high quality Microsoft Office suite of applications and Outlook perfectly tailored for the business world. I dare you to try to tell a non-IT sector business to switch to mutt. They'd think you were fucking crazy.

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>paying of windows
BIOS mod is enough for me

Windows is cheap enough (when hidden in the price of the computer itself) and it works well enough for most people.

But if you're paying $108 to upgrade then yeah no, not worth it.

>>31407821
>>because your pissant needs don't come near my business needs

fixed that word-usage error for you

>>31407821
Also this. The fact that you got Gnome up and running on your Arch setup doesn't mean jack fucking shit at how capable GNU/Linux is as a desktop operating system. Normal people will stop right when they have to choose a distro. It's a hobbyist operating system who's only real-world application is in embedded devices and in servers

And don't fucking tell me about Ubuntu you half assed piece of shit. don't even try. Do you honestly think people are going to use that fucking pile of shit? Here's a video of a woman who got Ubuntu instead of Windows when she bought a Dell. Nobody knows what Ubuntu is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dQiXHf0CEE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_iZd7-3g24

That's like someone saying "I don't know how to play football" and you giving him a Nerf ball.

I don't pay for Windows. The only times I've paid for it was for my laptops, but those aren't sold without, at least not without paying the license for it.
For my desktop I get one for free from my college.

And if you are working together with people who are using Windows or Mac it is better to use Windows, as Microsoft Word will shit it pants if you use Open/Libre Office.

>>31407881
That has to be the worst theme ever.

>>31407966


7/10.

Almost got me.

.....Almost.

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Because the creators of my PC operating systems (Window, Macintosh) don't look like sketchy crack dealers.

>>31407992
That's what user created themes look like. That's what most themes on GNU/Linux desktop environments look like.

>>31407966
Why the fuck does he call her "young woman" when he looks like he's 20 years old? Then his shitty gestures and fake voice, is this what news reporting is in America?

>>31408027
Stop rating me on how LOLTROOL, I have no fucking idea what you found so absurd about this because you're dismissing me as a troll
This is why /g/ is so shit these days

>>31408036
He looks so fucking old now fucking hell

Because proprietary software and the fact that opensource cannot compete with software available only for windows and OSX.

At best they're a pet project bu I need flash, photoshop, final cut pro, illustrator, and autocad. Free version of open source software cannot compete with them at all.

Here's a video of someone's mother's first Ubuntu experience

They're not American so their intelligence may not be comparable to that of the average American mother but you get the idea

I think what's happened is people on /g/ have started believe there own trolling.

>>31408180

4/10

>>31407966
>That's like someone saying "I don't know how to play football" and you giving him a Nerf ball.
No it's more like sticking your baby into an Olympic swimming pool during a race and giving her floaties. Your mom is using a fucking hobby OS in a community of condescending kiddie faggots who think everyone should be as literate with a computer as they are. I hope she doesn't go around saying "I use Linux", because nerds will want to tap her ass thinking she's some kind of hobbyist

>>31408318
>HERP DERP INSTALL GENTOO

>>31408281
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgGbZfR6Vec

>You don't need a big degree or manual to work it out. It's just logical.

I hope she doesn't try any other distro in her lifetime, or has trouble installing drivers for something.

>>31408036

>Bill Gates will die in your lifetime

>>31408465
I like how she has trouble figuring out how to save a file, because lintards thought "look how different I am" by replacing the floppy drive with a hard disk. Should we get rid of folder icons too? Fucking idiots.

>>31408520
And the floppy disk is going to keep making sense in the future, when people have never seen a real one?

>>31408465
Man Ubuntu looks far more attractive on that screen than my 1366x768 pile of shit.

in my life i paid for Win,i'd still prefer mac to linux

>>31408608
That's because you have the same vertical resolution of the obsolete 1024x768. Did you realize that? All you did was get 300 more pixels added.

>>31408626
Yes, everyone knows 1366x768 is terrible, and we can count enough to know they didn't change the second number.

Intuitive = being able to do things without giving much thought
Easy learning curve

That's not a bad thing at all and I don't see why you people try to be hardcore edgy faggots by telling me I should read a manpage for some cli program and memorize flags and arguments when I can use a frontend and do what I want in no time at all. Oh, and no I don't want to engage in a cli vs gui bawwfest, because it's as bad as gunfags with how retarded you act.

>>31408318
What is this in response to in this thread? I legitimately believe GNU/Linux has failed as a desktop operating system for the most part and whatever little Ubuntu has done does not suddenly override that.

>>31408432
MX518 = Shit mouse with autocorrection
Thinkpad = Old as fuck, now owned by chinks which completely invalidates any quality they used to have, their keyboard isn't unique by any means, and it's owned by chinks.
Model M = Loud as fuck, breaks your fingers typing it, practically useless
Gentoo = Difficult as fuck to install, basically another distro that needs extensive documentation to install because the developers are incapable of making something intuitive

>>31408036
Neither does the creator of the Linux Kernel. It's only Richard Stallman that looks like a drug addict/dealer.

Desktop Linux has a wide number of problems beyond just being an unintuitive, disorganized clusterfuck.

Hardware support has come a long way in ten years but it's still pretty inadequate when considering the requirements of a day-to-day desktop OS which Just Werks, without crashes or performance hits or limited features, with any given hardware you'd find in a consumer electronics store.

Then there's software support. Wine just doesn't cut it and there are plenty of common tasks performed by nontechnical users who rely on having access to some sort of software suite like AutoCAD, Solidworks, Photoshop, Sony Vegas or some other industry-standard tool which they need to get their job done.

There's also a serious lack of IT support. The 'community-based' support from IRC channels and forums just isn't going to cut it when Grandma's PC breaks down, or when Bob from accounting can't get logged in for some reason, and so on.

I use my computer to play games, browse the web, listen to music and watch movies. When it comes to work all I need is a Word Processor and something to make slide presentations.

I was curious about Linux some time ago, but when I think about it there is absolutely no reason for me to make the change; Windows has everything I need and it's very easy to use.

So to answer OP's question, Linux may be free but it's not what everyone needs, simple as that.

>>31408575
Nobody is associating the save button with the fucking floppy disk anymore, they just see it as the save button and this generation of kids are going to see it as the save button and it'll keep growing. Why the fuck should we change it to a hard disk when it doesn't matter either way. For the sake of consistency? That contradicts some of the other icons I'm seeing, like manila folders as 'open' buttons. There's no point in doing this other than being different for the sake of being different. This is their idea of innovation..

>>31407966
>not getting a laptop with linux preinstalled

You'll never experience the welcome animation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YMe_BXS_ndA

>>31408650
What is the point of this post? "hurr durr I know this please stop acknowledging it openly" fuck off autist

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>>31408919
>Gentoo
If I had to complain about Gentoo in a post like this I'd probably point to it being maintained by complete ricer morons who clearly have no fucking idea what they're doing, and the ports system being a broken, inconsistent fucking mess

>Why are people paying $108 for Windows
But Anon-kun, I only paid $15. At that price, how could you NOT afford to give up your freedoms?

>>31408942
Also some of the support ranges from "RTFM" to "PEBKAC" so I don't think grandma is going to like being told she's a fucking retard because she picked a different career choice besides computer science.

>>31408992
I'm going to guess that user got banned for "trolling" by the pseudo-intellectual retards who run the place as well. Lintards don't like criticism, theyd rather you fix it yourself before you resort to calling them out on something.

>>31409083
Or my favorite
>You're entitled to a full refund of your purchase price

>>31408992
thiswouldnthavehappenedifyouusedstaticlinking.jpg

>>31408992
>It's now my responsibility to fix this

That's fucking sad. You're a big fucking cunt if you tell people to do your work for them when they point out a problem.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35890

This thread is now about how Gentoo is shit and how their developers are assholes.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124595

>Why not submit a fixed one

My sides

>>31409321
>>31409282
That's so fucking sad.

>PAY
>FOR WINDOWS
>2013
ISHIGGYDIGGY

I bought windows 98, what a scam that was.
Windows vista came for free, what a pile of shit that was.
It only seems fair for me to pirate W7/8 because they're both shit too.
Hopefully windows 9 won't be for handhelds like 8 was clearly made for.

> It also smacks slightly of someone who has tried to run Gentoo and been embittered because they couldn't get it to work.

Don't like Gentoo? You're probably a pleb who just didn't understand it, 5deep7u my man

>Putting Gentoo users on the same level as ricers is a bit unfair; the Gentoo users don't annoy the general public and cause traffic hazards.

Only a delusional manchild who lost his way will resort to interpreting an analogy literally.

>>31409282
>>31409321
>>31409403
>HEY, YOU GUYS NEED TO DISREGARD YOUR ENTIRE PACKAGE MANAGEMENT POLICY AND JUST DO WHAT I SAY BECAUSE IM RIGHT
>lol no
>OMG U STUPID RICERS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING YOUR SO STUPID

right

>his kind of anti-gentoo-trolling

Hating Gentoo is now "anti-gentoo-trolling". This post dates from 2004, I'd like you to understand that even back then we had people calling others "trolls" because they disagreed with them.

>>31407711 (OP)
>I find it surprising that people go to so much effort to not like us.

It takes a lot of effort not to like someone!

>>31409527
>I'd like you to understand that even back then we had people calling others "trolls" because they disagreed with them.
this still happens, pops

>>31409516
I hope I don't die from the aneurysm I got reading this
>>>/b/

>>31409516
Hey let's break our system just for the sake of maintaining our false sense of high quality policy enforcement!

>OMG U STUPID RICERS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING YOUR SO STUPID

Fuck off, his criticism was pretty well written, go learn to respond to people unlike that of an edgy /b/tard

>>31409282
>>31409321
The site enforces HTTPS without valid authentication. I don't need to read anything to realize how incompetent they are.

>>31409501
For future reference, look up "selective literalism". It's a disgusting fallacy

My friend installed Gentoo.
Needless to say he's become a huge dick.

>>31409463
I DESERVE SHIT FOR FREE JUST BECAUSE.

If you don't like something, don't use it. Don't try to justify being a pirate. You can't.

>>31409666
>Saying you pirate something is the same as saying you're entitled to something

Please leave

>If you don't like something, don't use it

You can like it enough to use it but hate it enough to not pay for it

Please fuck off with the other faggot back to /b/. Going HURR I MOCK U SO UR INVALID is as retarded as it gets

>>31409752
>Going HURR I MOCK U SO UR INVALID is as retarded as it gets

Fair enough.
That argument is still bullshit.
When you pirate something you obtain the result of somebody else's work without giving them proper retribution. How is that not entitlement?

I can understand the appeal of piracy perfectly; you get things with very little effort and without paying money for them, what I don't understand is why people try to justify pirating something, that is just plain retarded.