Linux Thread

[Kamutog]

I've been thinking about making this a "Unix General" thread, as some people use MacOS and BSD distributions. Should I?

Wouldn't be a bad idea.

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[Metario]

well guys i've been installing macos in qemu (so sorta related i guess) and i've used a custom distro made by niresh and now i'm starting to use the stock one that i found off of the internet
holy stuff this is so annoying but at least i dont have to deal with amd drivers

[Metario]

well guys i've been installing macos in qemu (so sorta related i guess) and i've used a custom distro made by niresh and now i'm starting to use the stock one that i found off of the internet
holy stuff this is so annoying but at least i dont have to deal with amd drivers

update it's finished installing and now it's time to use multibeast
i plan to upgrade to 10.12.14 or whatever soon so i can use the pascal drivers and have a full gtx 1070 at my disposal in macos

[Metario]

woop woop
so I had to fiddle with this OsxAptios2Drv-free2000 driver but it's reached a login screen so high hopes !!
I got Clover working with OVMF so woo

[Metario]

hello fellow humans it is time i bump this thread back into existence
fish + omf and zsh + omz are the best shells tbh

[Hawt]

screenfetch time

[Pecon]

-heresy-

banned

[Aide33]

so I started building my own OS from scratch (it's never gonna be good this is for learning)

so what kind of wacky features would be sick?

i'm only at the bootloader rn

[CRITAWAKETS]

so I started building my own OS from scratch (it's never gonna be good this is for learning)

so what kind of wacky features would be sick?

i'm only at the bootloader rn

Make it mostly built around running in a virtual machine environment. That would be very useful.

[Pecon]

[/dev/sr0]

Make it mostly built around running in a virtual machine environment. That would be very useful.

Ooh, and maybe base it on Java and market it towards smartphones. There's no way this idea can possibly backfire in the future.

[Metario]

Ooh, and maybe base it on Java and market it towards smartphones. There's no way this idea can possibly backfire in the future.

Hey now, telling everybody that Obj-C is the future, then abandoning their standpoint on that and switching it to Swift isn't much better

[Verification]

what are the benefits of linux over windows

[Insert Name Here²]

what are the benefits of linux over windows

many

[Nal]

what are the benefits of linux over windows

security, speed, useful for servers, better customization, etc

do you only try to stuff up threads or something