It's an OS where the files have no association to programs; all configuration files and settings are stored "wherever" in text files that grow to be several megabytes long; most shell commands are so abstractly named that you would never be able to use them without knowing how they work.. or first reading its "manual pages".
It is also an OS of inconsistency. There's over a thousand distributions of Linux, and over a billion different modified versions of it. Programs come shipped as source code that you must compile and configure yourself (by way of large scripts that attempt to figure out how your system is running.. since nothing is standard).
What I am trying to say is if you want to make full use of your hardware, then use Windows. If you want to waste days trying to get an alpha OS to work with hacked drivers and illegally reverse engineered applications (that are mostly written by ugly teenagers who would stop doing it once they get laid) then by all means use Linux.
>>40
Wait, that last part doesn't make sense. But still. It's a nuisance.
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Anonymous2010-04-11 9:49
>>36
1. That situation is rare enough in most home systems that it's not worth considering. You should always have a backup plan in any case.
2. So put the system binaries in a different drive and join them into the system with a union mount.
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Anonymous2010-04-11 10:34
GoboLinux is trying to fix a problem that isn't problematic.
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Anonymous2010-04-11 10:40
>>43
I find Gobolinux's system very useful. In the Gobolinux way, it's easy to have multiple versions of software within the same system and it's easy to maintain the system with nothing more than the standard Unix tools (though there are also helper scripts that make system management very easy).
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Anonymous2010-04-11 13:51
>>33 This is also the reason why people liked to use ed.
Implying we aren't still.
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Anonymous2010-04-11 14:02
>>45
liked is paste tense dumbass
learn to speak english before you make implications
Here on world4ch, it is customary not to use shitty imageboard memes, such as "greentext implications." This policy is a part of the diverse and rich culture that we have grown over the past few years.
It should be interesting for you to note that world4ch (now known amongst newcomers as "the text boards of 4chan") was originally an entirely separate website!
We here at /prog/ would like you all to fuck off back to /g/ to extend our support towards our new members by helping you adjust to the our unique community. Before you make another post, we (the /prog/riders) would appreciate it if you would open up /prog/ thread list and read a few older threads, so that you can understand what our board considers to be acceptable. Who knows, you might learn something!
Sincerely,
Thomas "I fucking hate you faggots, get out of my /prog/" Anonymous.
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sage2010-04-11 15:36
>>53
Hi, was not using "> Implying", I was quoting the implication.
>>53 Gee They're probably /g/ refugees.
So in other words, Gee gee gee gee bab--what?
Seriously though, excellent post.
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motherfucking age2010-04-11 16:47
>>53 `> implying that you will ever get rid of the "implying" crap. I have taken it as my personal Vendetta to use it whenever possible on this board.
Seriously though, go fuck yourself. Thank you. And no, I'm not from the imageboards nor from reddit. And my name is not Randall.
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Anonymous2010-04-11 16:53
>>54
forgive >>53, he is just oversensitive just like most of us.
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Anonymous2010-04-11 16:54
just to give you guys a heads up, 420chan has a pretty decent /prog/ board
its a good idea to spread out to make good quality boards a harder target for doubleniggers like >>56
Last time I checked admittedly, in the fall season of last year, it was one of those horrible "LOL WHAT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE SHOULD I LEARN FIRST" boards.
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Anonymous2010-04-11 17:22
>>59
and now this board is being spammed by allcaps raving loons
>>65 i would rather have full control over my computer
Enjoy your binary Nvidia and Broadcom drivers.
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Anonymous2010-04-11 19:09
Look at it this way.
On most browsers, you can bring up your browsing history by pressing Control-H. (No, this is not going to become a discussion of werecows.) On Firefox, this brings up a sidebar that shows up on the left side of the window. If you put your mouse over the edge of the sidebar, the cursor will turn into a different kind of arrow. By clicking and dragging it, you can move the edge of the sidebar back and forth. You are, to put it another way, manipulating the border between the normal window and the history window. By moving the mouse, you can increase the portion of the window devoted to either part. In a more extreme view of this situation, you're increasing or decreasing the amount of existence the sidebar has.
Now, let's apply this idea to something more abstract. Look out your window. If you don't live in a highly urbanized area, you should be able to see the horizon. Think of this as the border between the land and the sky. The land and sky are obviously distinguishable thanks to this boundary. Now, if you were to "drag" the sash between the sky and the land, or to manipulate the border between land and sky, you would end up causing the sky to become larger and the land to become smaller, or vice versa. An effect of this might be to cause something that was just on the ground to suddenly be hundreds of feet in the air. Truly a frightening situation to be in. So, look at it this way - manipulating the border between two physical things shifts whatever balance there is in the interaction between those things. Alternatively, by manipulating the border between two things, you can change the manner in which they exist.
Still, this isn't *that* abstract, since it's still dealing with real things in the real world. Many believe that in this world, there are those things that are true, and those that obviously aren't. This divides reality into two extremes: truth and falsehood. But, since we have two extremes, logically one can imagine a boundary between those two extremes - the border between truth and lies. If one were to manipulate this border, suddenly things that were pure fantasy (flying pigs, for the sake of argument) have become reality - or things from reality have ceased to exist. This is how Yukari is said to have invaded the moon - by manipulating the border between truth and lies, as applied to the reflection of the moon on a pond, she was able to make the reflection of the moon into a manifestation of the actual moon, and so send her youkai army onto it. This is what's truly amazing about Yukari's power - the ability to manipulate the border between completely abstract concepts allows her to fundamentally change reality as we know it (at least in terms of two abstract concepts).
Here on world4ch, it is customary not to use shitty imageboard memes, such as "greentext implications." This policy is a part of the diverse and rich microbe culture that we have grown over the past few years in our neckbeards.
It should be interesting for you to note that world4ch (now known amongst newcomers as "the text boards of 4chan") was originally an entirely separate website!
We here at /frog/ would like you all to fuck off back to /g/ to extend our support towards our new members by helping you adjust to the our unique aspergers support community. Before you make another post, we (the /frog/riders) would appreciate it if you would open up /frog/ thread list and read a few older threads, so that you can understand what our board considers to be acceptable. Who knows, you might learn something!
Sincerely,
Thomas "I fucking hate you neurotypicals, get your hands off my /frog/" Anonymous.