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The real reason I use Linux

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The whole argument is non-sensical. "Its not some broken piece of shit" or "it doesn't suck" are meaningless unless you give us what "piece of shit" or "sucking" really is. "Linux" isn't even clarified so is this just talking about the kernel and implying that other os kernels provide definitions of "sucking" and "piece of shit"? *BSD certainly provide good kernels that don't suck and aren't "pieces of shit". Is it talking about full blown operating systems? That's not clear either... I'll just stop.

I think the argument is being made to users of entirely different environments, like monolithic software in Windows or mouse-controlled GUI applications on OS X. You could replace Linux with BSD, the GNU toolset, or the general concept of the command-line interface, and the image would still be making the same point.

And it's for those exact reasons that I have no problem with Windows Server, or Windows 7, or Visual Studio when doing native development. Oh, and the apps I care about? Modeling, gaming, watching dumb videos on the internet, enjoying Netflix? Those just work.

That's the real reason I use Windows when I'm not screwing around in server land.

For certain things, sure, the shell and OS model beat Windows hand down--but it's hardly a broken thing.

OSX can go eat a duck, though.

> Modeling, gaming, watching dumb videos on the internet, enjoying Netflix?

You can do every single one of those under with GNU/Linux too. Blender, steam, emulators, firefox/flash/chromium+chromium-widevine (or simply install chrome) have long been available under Linux.

Unlike Windows, "apps" come without malware from the official repos.

No doubt that Linux - the kernel - is one of the best open source project ever happened. Linux - the OS, the user space - is another story. The user space things of Linux based OS are bloated and just pain to work with. Everybody is fighting about different set of tools in this space and nothing is coherent and that's why there never was Linux desktop year and never will be.

Maybe if you're talking about GNOME/Unity/KDE or whatever. But really, if you just use a window manager + whatever apps you want, it's tough to beat Linux if you know what you're doing. Is it a pain that you can't do stuff like watch Netflix or edit Word docs/Excel spreadsheets? Yeah, but that's not really Linux' fault, and a Free Software argument is kind of OT.

This is not relevant to HN. It is not news, nor is it interesting.

It's not news, but it's "hacker"..?

No, it's not. It's a rant written with absolutely no value whatsoever. jfaucett gives a good summary detailing why this is a worthless submission.

HN is turning into reddit. I've seen this exact picture on reddit and /g/. If you want to post stuff like this, please take it there and leave us some interesting articles, a neat personal project, or recent tech news. Just not a fork bomb with a single, quasi-motivational set of sentences below it.

It's a good message, but this format really isn't something applicable to HN.

This is a 'joke' (?).

The heading:

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is a "fork bomb" booby trap. Do NOT enter that set of characters in a CLI.

This is very edgy. I picture some guy doing this spoken-word style in a smoke-filled Internet cafe.

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