Open Bar: Arguments About Turtles, All the Way Down

[Freeky]

I don't hate on Linux, to each his own sort of thing, but I couldn't figure out Ubuntu and internetting.  I felt like a derp.

[xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed)]

Why all the linux hate? Ubuntu and Mint are both built for non-nerds.

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

[minuspace]

I remember installing red-hat distributions that required a 600pp manual, twenty 3.5" disks and a long week-end.  Haven't seen slack distributions around for a while.  From a distance, Ubutnu seems like a popular "build".  I think I may be trying that next.  It just really pisses me off when I have a , well, "working" OS, that tries at every turn to retroactively break itself.  It's just plain stupid.

[East Coast Hustle]

Why all the linux hate? Ubuntu and Mint are both built for non-nerds the slightly less nerdy.

FTFY.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Why all the linux hate? Ubuntu and Mint are both built for non-nerds the slightly less nerdy.

FTFY.

Fair play.

[hooplala]

Why is the first beer I order always shitty? Why am I so adventurous?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

House hunting over.

Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.

[Suu]

House hunting over.

Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.

If not, may I suggest an alternative method of destruction?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq6T5BojXc8

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

aaargh i have to family birthday again today. I am single minded in my mission to get me some more submissions for the Reclaim the Night zine i'm helping out for for my feminist group and our first big ass event in the form of a march and do a couple of pieces myself.

I hate September.

[LMNO]

House hunting over.

Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.

Wait... I missed something.  New house?  No more golf course shenanegins?

[Suu]

Today I learned you can piss off a Texan on the internet by telling them you live in New Hampshire and that we're better at freedom than they are.

[Reginald Ret]

House hunting over.

Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.

Wait... I missed something.  New house?  No more golf course shenanegins?

I too seem to have missed something.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

House hunting over.

Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.

Wait... I missed something.  New house?  No more golf course shenanegins?

Yes.  4 years of that shit has worn thin, and there's only 3 of us now, so there is no reason for gigantic money pit.

[P3nT4gR4m]

For anyone having problems with windows 8/8.1 you can turn it into a passable facsimile of win7 by installing classic shell. Lets you dump metro and bring back the ver 7 start menu/orb

Once I did this I started to like 8 a lot. It's stable as a mofo (even compared to 7) and runs like shit off a stick. It's basically a pretty solid OS with a pathologically retarded gui. Ditch the gui and you should be good.

[LMNO]

House hunting over.

Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.

Wait... I missed something.  New house?  No more golf course shenanegins?

Yes.  4 years of that shit has worn thin, and there's only 3 of us now, so there is no reason for gigantic money pit.

Plus, no more homeowner's association!