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The Biscuit posted:Why would your grandma gaf what OS is on it? put windows back on your grandmother's computer, rear end in a top hat. your nana loves you and doesn't want to have to be the one to tell you that your OS is a piece of poo poo.
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Just convert m4a to mp3 with sound converter or maybe not listen to Apples lovely music format? God forbid someone knows a little bit about their operating system instead of being "it just works" oblivious. You're the same guys who own a car but can't change your oil.
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Apr 3, 2016 13:19
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Hmm I drive a 1992 Acura Integra I assembled entirely out of piecemeal junkyard parts and I installed Linux on the Pioneer head unit
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Apr 3, 2016 13:22
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Germstore posted:put windows back on your grandmother's computer, rear end in a top hat. your nana loves you and doesn't want to have to be the one to tell you that your OS is a piece of poo poo. I'm about to move grandma to ChromeOS
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Apr 3, 2016 13:29
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The reason people are talking poo poo about Linux using outdated info is because around the time of Windows 7 is when most of us said "gently caress this poo poo forever" trying to play with that complicated OS and meant it. We've been burnt a million times over by this talk of "Oh it's super easy to use now with x distribution or x desktop" and sure as hell aren't going to believe you now.Boinks posted:God forbid someone knows a little bit about their operating system instead of being "it just works" oblivious. You're the same guys who own a car but can't change your oil. I changed my oil once. Spent an hour uncomfortably sweating under my car and then half a day looking for a place that would let me properly discard my old oil when I decided to just spend the extra ten bucks and have someone else do it for me. CubanMissile fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Apr 3, 2016 |
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Apr 3, 2016 13:53
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SweetKarma posted:I get sad when I see laptops pre-loaded with Ubuntu at Walmart. You just know some poor grandma is going to buy that laptop expecting Windows. Yeah granny'll be super passed when she has to install wine to play counter strike or whatever
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Apr 3, 2016 14:47
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CubanMissile posted:The reason people are talking poo poo about Linux using outdated info is because around the time of Windows 7 is when most of us said "gently caress this poo poo forever" trying to play with that complicated OS and meant it. We've been burnt a million times over by this talk of "Oh it's super easy to use now with x distribution or x desktop" and sure as hell aren't going to believe you now. Is it too late to reconsider eugenics?
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Apr 3, 2016 14:50
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My gran has been using windows since 3.1 so if she bought a laptop with ubuntu on it I'm pretty sure she'd be like, 'what's this happy horse poo poo?"
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Apr 3, 2016 14:56
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linux has never been "it just works" its "if you arent an idiot you can fix it yourself" if you've ever needed a smart friend/family member to fix your computer you should just get a mac
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Apr 3, 2016 15:00
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Hector Beerlioz posted:I use a mac. They just work.
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Apr 3, 2016 15:04
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learning shell stuff is one of the best things i ever did and means i don't go insane spending my life doing repetitive poo poo on a gui (i will admit to wasting a hell of a lot of time learning advanced bash scripting before finding that python kicks its rear end in every way) i am not sure how there are programmers that can't do stuff in shell, but they exist
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Apr 3, 2016 15:13
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CubanMissile posted:The reason people are talking poo poo about Linux using outdated info is because around the time of Windows 7 is when most of us said "gently caress this poo poo forever" trying to play with that complicated OS and meant it. We've been burnt a million times over by this talk of "Oh it's super easy to use now with x distribution or x desktop" and sure as hell aren't going to believe you now. I tapped out at Vista, Ubuntu was easier to install than XP and worked better than Vista so I've been running it ever since.  CubanMissile posted:I changed my oil once. Spent an hour uncomfortably sweating under my car and then half a day looking for a place that would let me properly discard my old oil when I decided to just spend the extra ten bucks and have someone else do it for me. I just update stuff when it tells me to and everything has been gravy, apparently I have to upgrade from 12.04 to some new version this year though. Probably should just install from scratch though yeah?
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Apr 3, 2016 15:20
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CubanMissile posted:
Literally every single autozone, aap takes used oil.
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Apr 3, 2016 15:41
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DEAD MAN'S SHOE posted:i am not sure how there are programmers that can't do stuff in shell, but they exist did you know you need to use a 64bit browser to view a website the runs on a 64bit server?
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Apr 3, 2016 15:53
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karma_coma posted:did you know you need to use a 64bit browser to view a website the runs on a 64bit server? ...this explains so much
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Apr 3, 2016 16:11
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i don;t want to use linux because i saw a video of that strange hairy man richard stallaman eating something from his toes and i'd probably imagine that every time i was using that particular os
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Apr 3, 2016 16:37
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Hello I am a Windows System Administrator I need to download an SSH client I know I will use an unencrypted HTTP connection to download the SSH client which I will then repeatedly type my password(Which is the same as my Domain Admin Credentials) into No don't worry It's cool I use Trend Micro!!!
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Apr 3, 2016 16:38
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Hello I am a Windows System Administrator I need to download a Password Storage Program I know I will use an unencrypted HTTP connection to download the Password Storage Program which I will then store all of my Admin Credentials in so that I don't have to stop thinking about sandwiches for even a second No don't worry It's cool I use Symantec!!!
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Apr 3, 2016 16:40
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I am not a book posted:Hello I am a Windows System Administrator I need to download an SSH client I know I will use an unencrypted HTTP connection to download the SSH client which I will then repeatedly type my password(Which is the same as my Domain Admin Credentials) into No don't worry It's cool I use Trend Micro!!! Hello my boss.
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Apr 3, 2016 18:14
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Boinks posted:Just convert m4a to mp3 with sound converter or maybe not listen to Apples lovely music format?
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Apr 3, 2016 18:34
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I installed ubuntu on my mom's laptop and she said "it's just like a mac! it's great!"
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Apr 3, 2016 18:35
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I'm now learning bash because of the Windows thing ama
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Apr 3, 2016 18:59
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CubanMissile posted:
You probably shouldn't have posted this lol
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Apr 3, 2016 19:01
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:You probably shouldn't have posted this lol Alternatively, he might have a thing called a "job" that pays him more money in an hour than he saves from playing around under his car.
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Apr 3, 2016 19:08
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metalloid posted:I installed ubuntu on my mom's laptop and she said "it's just like a mac! it's great!" That purple desktop gets all women to drop their panties!
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Apr 3, 2016 19:39
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gently caress iseries
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Apr 3, 2016 19:56
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FallenGod posted:Alternatively, he might have a thing called a "job" that pays him more money in an hour than he saves from playing around under his car. its ok to not want to, its another thing to express in detail one's ineptitude and it kind of shines light on the first half of the complaint but yes if you cant figure out how to unscrew a bolt in one hour then perhaps you shouldn't be doing it
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Apr 3, 2016 19:57
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GRILLARY CLINTON posted:i [...] use gentoo because im a gay idiot
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Apr 3, 2016 20:57
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Your husband has the patience and tolerance of a saint his ex wife oth
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Apr 3, 2016 21:50
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Boinks posted:Just convert m4a to mp3 with sound converter or maybe not listen to Apples lovely music format? I have no problem tinkering with an OS to wring the most I can out of it. What I have a problem with is having to tinker with an OS to achieve the bare acceptable minimum of functionality, like being able to listen to music encoded in a popular format without having to perform a lossy -> lossy codec transcode. Sure, it's trivial to do a batch conversion with a recursive script and ffmpeg, but I shouldn't have to. It would also be nice to do simple things like be able to play games at a passable framerate and be able to reliably suspend my computer at the same time, or access files with CJK filenames on HFS file systems for when I'm copying over my backed-up data. The latter issue was marked as a bug in hfsplus 6 years ago and will probably be fixed on the same year that Linux becomes ready for the desktop. a busted-up mailbox fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Apr 3, 2016 |
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Apr 3, 2016 21:50
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maybe don't use hosed up garbage filesystems
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Dunno about other distributions but for Kubuntu, and maybe for Ubuntu, all I had to do was search for "things to do after installing [my distro].[my version]" and read about what packages to install to get all the codecs for everything. This was very easy to do. If you're frustrated and having to gently caress with the computer, stop. There are plenty of excellent articles and forums posts that will save you a lot of headaches. I use foobar2000 under WINE (both of which were very easy to install from packages) and it works great. But the Linux media players, which aren't bad, play .m4a files, for example, as well. Edit: foob, like all Windows software that can run under WINE, isn't installed from packages, but from running the foob installation .exe under the Wine Windows Program Loader. The reason why the Linux players can play all the formats is because of the installed codecs, which for Ubuntu/Kubuntu, were collected in a single additional package. Bad Titty Puker fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Apr 4, 2016 |
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CubanMissile posted:The reason people are talking poo poo about Linux using outdated info is because around the time of Windows 7 is when most of us said "gently caress this poo poo forever" trying to play with that complicated OS and meant it. We've been burnt a million times over by this talk of "Oh it's super easy to use now with x distribution or x desktop" and sure as hell aren't going to believe you now. On again, off again linux dev here. Linux isnt the best at everything, theres things that other proprietary OS's do way better. You dont know what any of these things are. The average user who just wants to go online and monitor their facetoobs would do fine on linux if they were used to it. Also linux kind of suffers from this problem where it wants to appeal to the masses, but doesnt want to alienate its devs and power users so its split up into a lot of different distros with inconsistent quality and usability. CubanMissile posted:I changed my oil once. Spent an hour uncomfortably sweating under my car and then half a day looking for a place that would let me properly discard my old oil when I decided to just spend the extra ten bucks and have someone else do it for me. its cool scro 
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On the one hand I think it's cool and remarkable that the linux community makes desktop distros but I kinda wish they didn't because they are really, really bad at it. Part of it is the fault of people like Ubuntu who made a bunch of dumb stuff. Part of it is the driver quality is always going to lag far behind windows because, by and large, hardware vendors don't care about linux. I know that has changed a little as I think some graphics drivers are slightly better now, but meh. You're not going to find a driver for your special snowflake hardware doodad that was made by a small company.
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Apr 4, 2016 00:47
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Who even does *just* an oil change anymore? Poors and people who want to wear out their car early by not doing full maintenance, that's who
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FallenGod posted:Alternatively, he might have a thing called a "job" that pays him more money in an hour than he saves from playing around under his car. I also use a thing called exaggeration, but shhh don't tell anyone.
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c:/> dos run lol
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Michaellaneous posted:*has a mac* cathode was a pro click man i bought the ios version of that app ty
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TLG James posted:Literally every single autozone, aap takes used oil. Call em first tho, sometimes the drum is full
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Just pout the used oil out on the weeds in your yard for a cheap and easy week killing solution
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