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Captain Pike posted:linux is an operating system. 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. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
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Lol gnome3. Not even once.
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Oct 21, 2014 13:15
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Been trying gnome 3 for the past couple of months and I like it better than unity. Also giving Firefox another try because I made a friend that works there. Firefox has crashed on me more than a few times and so has flash. Guess I need to figure out why this is happening. Welcome to Linux I guess Thinking I might kubuntu for no other reason than hope it doesn't have my web browsers crash
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Oct 21, 2014 15:46
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yeah I rarely use flash but the one or two times I opened some flash thing it totally killed my firefox. I also used to get some weird font issues on firefox but I don't think I've seen them lately.Ludwig van Halen posted:probably the top bar thing that is literally 90% empty space with a dumb rear end clock dead center I like gnome3, it grew on me over time but this is a thing that bothers my autism tbqh
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Oct 21, 2014 15:52
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syntaxrigger posted:Been trying gnome 3 for the past couple of months and I like it better than unity. so you like a poo poo sandwich better than a poo poo and tzatziki gyro? syntaxrigger posted:Firefox has crashed on me more than a few times and so has flash. Guess I need to figure out why this is happening. Welcome to Linux I guess flash has always been bad on linux, but now it is unsupported. adobe no longer updates it, and it uses a dead browser plugin api from the 90s. i doubt it is even getting security patches if you want flash on linux, chrome is mandatory. it comes with google's proprietary flash implementation, so it is not dependent on the dead adobe product. (not chromium, but google-branded chrome)
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Oct 21, 2014 15:57
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btw i currently use firefox with neither flash nor java installed. feels good man youtube is like 99.9% html 5 now. it has been ages since i found an unplayable video
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Oct 21, 2014 15:59
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steve jobs' greatest act in life was to destroy flash as a going concern thteve
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Oct 21, 2014 16:01
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Mr Dog posted:steve jobs' greatest act in life was to destroy flash as a going concern eq
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Oct 21, 2014 16:03
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:btw i currently use firefox with neither flash nor java installed. feels good man you have to disable flash blocking plugins cause they will cause youtube to think you have flash installed
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Oct 21, 2014 16:27
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Share Bear posted:you have to disable flash blocking plugins cause they will cause youtube to think you have flash installed
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Oct 21, 2014 16:31
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my stepdads beer posted:'minimise' to another workspace hth so instead of one button click I have to flail my cursor up to the hot corner. click and drag the window to the other side of the screen and then click another window to close the overlay and focus it
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Oct 21, 2014 16:32
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ShadowHawk posted:is it enough to just have Firefox set to "ask before enabling flashplugin" ? that should work if i absolutely have to use flash i use chrome as previously recommended everyone should uninstall flash, on windows and osx as well
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Oct 21, 2014 16:36
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hasn't gnome 3 been out for like 4 years now and they still haven't got their poo poo together? even kde4 matured in about 2 years
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Oct 21, 2014 16:38
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actually gnomes poo poo is extremely together
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Oct 21, 2014 16:40
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Yeah gnome has been good since 3.8ish I think. Whenever it was they added ~classic mode~
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Oct 21, 2014 18:04
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Ludwig van Halen posted:hasn't gnome 3 been out for like 4 years now and they still haven't got their poo poo together? gnome is the least poo poo of the modern crop. kde is forever lol and not mature, they need to kidnap designers and ux people. openbox is v needs suiting so i don't bother with full a de
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Oct 21, 2014 18:13
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What about XFCE and LXDE? And Unity? And that thing Mint uses... Cinnamon?
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Oct 21, 2014 18:42
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OldAlias posted:gnome is the least poo poo of the modern crop. kde is forever lol and not mature, they need to kidnap designers and ux people. openbox is v needs suiting so i don't bother with full a de yeah let me just cj my desktop used by literal autists
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Oct 21, 2014 18:43
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desktop linux you double autist. ux janitoring is what brought me here a decade ago e: xfce is acceptable, unity is garbage, mint is dumb so i don't know about cinnamon OldAlias fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Oct 21, 2014 |
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Oct 21, 2014 18:51
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OldAlias posted:kde is forever lol and not mature, they need to kidnap designers and ux people. they actually did this for kde 5. not the kidnapping part, but they have actual non-programmer designers working on it. it's still a work in progress, but it already looks and feels far better than kde 4 ever did.
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Oct 21, 2014 19:40
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Mr Dog posted:steve jobs' greatest act in life was to destroy flash as a going concern there are so many op 
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Oct 21, 2014 20:01
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:so you like a poo poo sandwich better than a poo poo and tzatziki gyro? Forgot about HTML 5 option for Firefox. Need to hook that up. Thanks
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Oct 21, 2014 20:53
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power botton posted:actually gnomes poo poo is extremely together If you mean they glued literal poo poo together to make it, then ya
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Oct 21, 2014 22:28
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yospos, please tell me your opinion on openbox as a window manager. my beard is grey as all heck i use fedora 20 with openbox as my main work computer. it does all the things i need and i look cool while doing them!
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Oct 21, 2014 23:28
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Winkle-Daddy posted:yospos, please tell me your opinion on openbox as a window manager. my beard is grey as all heck Screen shot or it didn't happen.
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Oct 21, 2014 23:31
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openbox/fluxbox/shitbox was "cool" in like 2003
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Oct 21, 2014 23:40
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pram posted:shitbox 
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Oct 21, 2014 23:43
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pram posted:openbox/fluxbox/shitbox was "cool" in like 2003 lol, i started using openbox because counter-strike source ran like asssssss on gnome3/unity, but much better with openbox. then i got used to it.
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Oct 21, 2014 23:45
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i never understood the point because if you're using something like openbox, what is the point of having a desktop? why not use a tiling wm?
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Oct 21, 2014 23:47
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pram posted:i never understood the point because if you're using something like openbox, what is the point of having a desktop? why not use a tiling wm? because a guy i worked with used a tiling wm and was a total dick about how much better he was for it. so to answer your question: spite. e: also openbox does some auto config stuff now so its very fast to get it up and running. i remember you used to have to build your menu from scratch, now i just launch obmenu and throw the poo poo i use all the time on the top. Winkle-Daddy fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Oct 22, 2014 |
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Oct 21, 2014 23:50
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an old chestnut i found on my backup drive
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Oct 21, 2014 23:55
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Last Chance posted:an old chestnut i found on my backup drive dang rude handicapped people have much to contribute
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Oct 22, 2014 02:15
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Please don't conflate my autism with them gimp legs in TYOOL 2014. Grow up.
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Oct 22, 2014 03:00
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just use mate. it's like gnome but without the half assed attempt at cargo-culting the worst bits of windows 8 and lion.
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Oct 22, 2014 04:21
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"just use mate, because the desktop paradigm peaked circa 1997" - yospos, unironically
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pretend that i posted that gif of the guy in the car and he looks at you like 'what lol' as he pulls away except its me in the car and the car is gnome-shell
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Oct 22, 2014 07:27
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it peaks with each new os x version
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Oct 22, 2014 07:31
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oval office AND PASTE posted:just use fvwm, because the desktop paradigm peaked circa 1993
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Oct 22, 2014 09:26
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oval office AND PASTE posted:pretend that i posted that gif of the guy in the car and he looks at you like 'what lol' as he pulls away except its me in the car and the car is gnome-shell the guy is hit rapper 50 Cents
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I set up Linux for my parents, but they didn't like ion3 so I reinstalled windows.
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