>>1
- Laptop with Vista (for work)
- PC with XP (not used much, for original Unreal Tournament)
- PC also dual boots Debian for Renoise and general linux hacking
- old iMAC for general browsing and music and general posix hacking
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Anonymous2010-05-12 7:44
I find the lack of BSD in this thread disturbing.
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Anonymous2010-05-12 7:53
I find the lack of HURD in this thread disturbing.
Fucking assholes only sell desktops with Windows 7 now. Why the fuck would anyone want to get a desktop with that fucked up shit on it? Windows 7 is far inferior to XP, it's just shitty ass Vista resold as something new.
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Anonymous2010-05-12 9:42
1. I am the Hurd hacker that lurks this board.
2. I use and promote Gobolinux. I really like how this system is organized.
>>10
Windows 7 is far superior to XP, (apart from the GUI) which is superior to vista
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Anonymous2010-05-12 9:49
>>11
gobolinux actaully sounds quite interesting. i may give it a whirl in the future
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Anonymous2010-05-12 9:54
>>13
Gobolinux sounds like the Vista of free OSes. Either keep the file structure as it is, or go the whole hog and request that programs be made compatible with the new directory tree (which I wholeheartedly agree with). Don't wuss out halfway and keep symlinks everywhere, it just goes against the whole idea (it's even more cluttered than before).
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Anonymous2010-05-12 10:02
dualboot winXP and Mint Linux on desktop and netbooks
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Anonymous2010-05-12 10:10
>>14
Strictly speaking, symlinks to the traditional system are just a convenience feature so that we don't have to explicitly rename the hardcoded strings within a program. AFAIK, nobody cares enough to go through the process of removing the symlinks then going through the system and fixing the broken path issues one by one.
A surprising number of free software titles can actually work well without the symlinks after configuring the compile process to work in the Gobolinux way.
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Anonymous2010-05-12 10:45
Lots of masochists in here.
I use Mac OS X.
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Anonymous2010-05-12 11:07
Debian dual booting with Windows 7, on main computer
Windows 7, on netbook
>>24
Why not?
All the trolling aside, Gentoo is a great GNU plus Linux distribution. It takes a bit of work initially if you truly want to take advantage of its source based nature by setting all the USE flags you need or want but after that it's pretty low-maintenance.
Then again, with all the horror stories I hear concerning upgrades, PulseAudio train wrecks and the like on ``user friendly'' distributions it might actually less work in the long run.
>>29
Just "-march=core2 -O2 -pipe", nothing fancy. Even -O3 tends to break things and bullshit like -ffast-math just makes everything go boom. The performance gains aren't worth the risk. What's the point?
Now, my USE flags are a different story. In my make.conf I put "-*" which removes ALL default flags (cups, fortran, gnome, kde, what the fuck?) and then added a few sane ones I always want like threads, unicode or xinerama. When I install something I take a look at the supported USE flags and set them for each package individually in my package.use file.
This guarantees the most minimal system possible. You can't do this with a binary distribution. Ever tried installing mplayer on one? Enjoy your bloat.
>>30
Because "bloat" is such a problem when low-end systems come with 160 GB hard drives and 1 GB of RAM, right? And fuck binary compatibility. Who cares if things get broken if I need to reenable some feature later?
>>31
Being able to control what gets installed just makes me feel good. It's not like you have to tweak as much as I do (which isn't all that much, as it does most of it on its own). If you don't care about pulling lots of libraries for features you don't need that's fine too.
>>31 Because "bloat" is such a problem when low-end systems come with 160 GB hard drives and 1 GB of RAM, right?
It's because of this mindset that I can't run more than three applications at the same time before things start exploding because I'm out of RAM. Fuck you and everyone like you.
>>39
Don't you remember what it was like at that time? I clearly remember having to manually manage my app usage or else the system would start relying upon hard drive based memory paging system.
>>40
I didn't have that problem. In fact, it wasn't more than 5 years ago that I had to work with such machines every day and had surprisingly little difficulty. Today I still don't have a use for more than 2GB of RAM... the one time my system used more than that owed to a broken build system turned itself into a forkbomb.
On servers it is different, which is sadly where Java sees the most penetration. Picture a web server with 1 or 2GB of RAM, almost entirely consumed by a few Java processes performing the equivalent duties of a 30-line Perl script (which would need a peak RSS of 2 to 4MB.) Then try to come to terms with the frustration of having these processes hang and eventually crap out because they were invoked with too low a memory limit, which (about 64MB.) And the vendor speaks very good Russian. I'm still not sure whether Java is generally bad or just systematically badly written.
Dual boot Win7 and Arch Linux.
Tried Gentoo but those USE-Flags really fucked me up. Arch Linux just provide i686 optimized binaries and its small and simple.
lol @macosxists
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Anonymous2010-05-13 8:11
The hardest part about using Linux was that first cock in my ass. But I'm used to it now, so it goes in easier.
>>44
Imagine a giant cock flying towards your mouth, and there's nothing you can do about it. And you are like "oh, man, I'm gonna have to suck this thing", and you brace yourself to suck this giant cock. But then, at the last moment, it changes trajectory and hits you in the eye. You think "well, at least I got that out of the way", but then the giant cock rears back and stabs you in the eye again, and again and again.
Eventually this giant cock is penetrating your gray matter and you begin to lose control of your motor skills. That's when the giant cock slaps you across the cheek, causing you to fall off out of your chair. Unable to move and at your most vulnerable, the giant cock finally lodges itself in your anus, where it rests comfortably for 4, maybe 5 hours. That's what using Linux is like.
>>31
i'd have to buy a new motherboard to put a hard drive larger than 120GB in the machine i'm using now (no SATA, only enough room for a 2.5" hard drive).
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Anonymous2010-05-13 10:31
Using Crunchbox since it's Debian-based now
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Anonymous2010-05-13 10:31
>>48
Crunchbox? I meant Crunchbang.
I've been working on making Openbox not look like shit for the past couple hours.