- vim/tmux/gcc/gdb, my development environment of choice
- awesomewm, also pictured from previously
- mpd allows me to stream my entire music collection from my home desktop to any device able to run an mpd client, especially my phone and laptop, I don't even need Plex!
- ssh easily accessible
- Random note, I don't play actively, but on the rare occasion I want to play Hearthstone, I could NOT get it installed and working on my Windows partition, but works better-than-perfectly in Wine.
- Package management, in general. The rest of the computing world is catching up to us on that front though.
- Dolphin GameCube emulator works worlds better in my Linux install than in Windows, less overhead to take up memory I suspect is the primary culprit.
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@Beezleybuzz What are you, 13? Grow up or take your meds. Amazing that one sentence sets you off like that... for real dude.
Obviously Steam is what has me on Linux (about 30% of my library is available on Linux) even more with POL. I have really come to appreciate Gnumeric. Its more powerful than excel imo.
Wow, insinuating that I should be medicated (ad hominem attack, fyi) very nice, very mature.
Remember anger is the guise of sadness and fear. Perhaps sad that I was so correct?
Oh, sick burn.
guys, please stay on topic, and avoid attacking one another...
The only head scratcher I have is with CSGO, can not get the mic to work. Mic works great in steam client and steam voice chat, but CSGO refuses to pick up the mic in game... Volvo pls. FPS are comparable to other OSs (maxed 300 with 670).
The history of Linux starts in 1991, but you could go back to 1977 for BSD.
Android is basically Linux, but it has Google behind it.
Apple's OS X is also basically Linux too.
No one knows it all and I certainly don't claim to, but anyone in business will tell you advertising works.
lol just lol....
Anyway this is off-topic but just to clarify. The smartphone market was not exploited the way it is now. Obviously marketing works and Google PR power helped. But the main reason for the success of android was that it made people that did not have smartphones buy them. Additionally the OEMs that wanted in, found sth that they could use freely for their devices. Their previous attempts to make a decent smartophone OS were not fruitful yet and android came like a gift.
That is why the market was emerging back then, even if blackberries were successful.
For the desktop market potential consumers already have a desktop and they are using them with the OEMs already supporting is for like 2 decades. Its not a matter of convincing someone to use sth he did not have, but to switch his use, that is already potentially satisfied with, to sth different, which will be unfamiliar. That is amazingly difficult to do, even with great PR and it does take time.
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My favorite feature of Linux and just about all free software is that direct communication with the devs and maintainers of said software. You can can give feedback in real time which helps everyone. Mailing list, news group and IRC are always a good way to stay in touch.
Sofware-wise web services are what get me going. Owncloud, Plex, Kolab, Quassel, and jabber servers are what make my life actually better.
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Good point. I just feel it's a shame that Joe public is missing out on a good thing. Beyond the tech world Linux is virtually unknown, or at least that's my experience.
I think the main thing that draws me to it is that I feel involved with it, like having a pet. It's fun to play with, can do crazy stuff at times, but while I'm engaged with it I'm learning from it and it from me. It's a progressive and intellectual pursuit, harrowing at times, but ultimately rewarding.
It's fun.
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https://forum.teksyndicate.com/t/linux-software-list/77465
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from an OS point of view BTRFS , ZFS, LUKS/LVM .. i.e epic filesystem stuff.
I mean, you don’t get that on windows or mac without installing 3rd party tools that are said to be compromised. You can take a vanilla copy of your favourite Debian distro and on installation tick one box and your entire disc is encrypted .. great for school,uni,college or if your just a norm working and taking your laptop all over the place.
ZFS is amazing for servers and snapshots, BTRFS is getting there too and usable even on a normal non server platform.
Aside from that NeOZen and Wendell ( in the Tek ) hit on point, you feel closer to your hardware and if you run Arch its like having a non walled garden where you can make it look exactly like you want but even though there are no walls people can't automatically come along and smash up all your flowers.. That's the oddness of windows, its a walled garden but then people seem to keep finding ways in and ways of ruining your day.
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- really usefull cli
- dd
- screen
- top/htop
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- gparted
- The ability to actually know what a process is doing.
- Don't need a 3rd party program for ssh.
- The comments I find in the different documentation.
- cli
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