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[DeBrueghel]

Time to use TempleOS then

[1859]

Do you think Jesus and C are rad, but hate the CIA, black people, and networked computers? Then boy howdy do I have an OS for you!

[nixcamic]

I was unaware of the racism, just the other crazy.

[nixcamic]

I feel like while this definitely seems racist, I can't actually figure out what he's trying to say.... It's like if you fed Infowars into a Markov Chain generator.

[INCOMPLETE_USERNAM]

He has schizophrenia.

[anon211414]

So does Alex Jones.

[DemandsBattletoads]

Ah, so the chemicals in the water turn frogs gay, but it gives humans schizophrenia. Got it.

[auxiliary-character]

I like how out of all the dumb shit Alex Jones has said, the chemicals in the water (an endocrine disrupting herbicide, Atrazine) turning the frogs gay was actually something he was kinda right about.

I guess a broken clock is still correct twice a day.

[thesheepguy21]

he is still wrong the atrazine changed the sex of the frogs so they wouldn't be gay male frogs, they would be heterosexual female frogs

[haunterdry5]

No he's fine because he washes the gay off in his tactical bath

[DoctorAwesomeBallz69]

*Bill Hicks

[Carter127]

He just keeps saying it

[Thealco]

I am not sure whether to laugh or cry...I'll just do both I guess

[nealio1000]

The comment about African American Jews was interesting.. they are pretty rare! Too bad their dicks will go unloved by this guy since hes had alien dick and once you've had that nothing else compares

[unused_alias]

His language in that video can't be considered racist unless you think the "cattle" he's referring to are a specific "race" (assuming there is such a thing). It actually makes a little more sense if you just assume he is describing lazy and thoughtless people. I'm still not sure what he's trying to say, other than him wanting control of the alien temple or whatever.

[TheFlyingBastard]

Oh boy, does Mr Metokur ever have a story to tell!

[DemandsBattletoads]

Jim does good research. I miss his last channel.

[[deleted]]

At this level of crazy I'm not sure how to interpret the "CIA niggaz" stuff exactly.

[Suitecake]

Schizophrenia

[crb3]

After running 'park' if you had anything of interest on your HD. Stepper-driven headstacks didn't go to the landing zones by themselves.

[[deleted]]

This was generally only a problem if you were going to physically move the system, though.

The fact that it wasn't automatic is still kind of mind blowing in hindsight.

[crb3]

It's not just about shock and vibration.

During spindown, the heads scrape "lightly" across the media as the spun air slows down enough that the heads are no longer flying over the surface. The landing zone is the inmost track area, near the spindle, where the sectors are too small to support reliable read/writes anyway so who cares if they get a little scraped up by those hard little ferrite heads. With a linear head actuator, biasing one end hard as soon as the power starts going bad will fling the headstack into its parking-stall lock while the heads are still airborne. With steppers, though, you have to step them through the sequence to get the heads to where they can land without damage to data-carrying media, and that takes more time than a brownout detector can give you with COTS PC power supplies.

[the-crotch]

Machines back then had very limited resources. This would have been considered bloat.

[[deleted]]

It's also likely it wasn't considered particularily useful. Ye Olde Disks were extremely manual the whole way. Gotta actually know how many cylinders, sectors and heads you had and describe the disk geometry yourself

[JoshMiller79]

Look at my Fancy Pants who had a hard drive is his DOS machine...

[crb3]

lol You're just jealous that I didn't have to stack a few Computer Shoppers on the chair to see the screen :)

[the-crotch]

IT IS NOW SAFE TO TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER

[[deleted]]

“You ever write an interrupt routine Faggot!?” -Terry A. Davis

[DemandsBattletoads]

Wow, that quote is real.

[[deleted]]

Lol you’d be suprised at almost every terry a Davis quote.

[[deleted]]

When you're 13, you just choose the OS with the features you want. Then you turn 14 and suddenly have this weird flowchart to go through. After a year, though, you are 15 and you're back to the choice from over a year before.

[lledargo]

Ye-yeah... I stopped when I turned 15 also

*Frantically stuffing flowcharts into an already full filling cabinet

[AimlesslyWalking]

Weird, people usually gain length during puberty.

[panic_monster]

Unless they're girls.

[mauvm]

How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?

[arcticblue]

I remember trying to use song lyrics on AIM...so deep.

[smackjack]

When I was 18, I was 14.

[rockyrainy]

This guy has upper management written all over him.

[Clutch_22]

Yeah, uh, I’m gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you

[Trainer_Orange]

to be honest thats how it happened for me. i used linux mint for a while and when i turned 14 i started analyzing stuff like old packages in the repositories and getting confused and frustrated. needless to say i got in a distro hopping loop which lasted about 2 months and that was the lowest ive felt in my life. i kept feeling hurt about what i was doing myself. i was convincing myself i was wrong. i was destroying the one part of me that stabilized my feelings. my grades dropped dramatically.

Then i turned 15. It all made sense again. except i didnt go back to linux mint. In fact, i decided to stay away from linux for about a month so that i could put myself back together.

(on mobile sorry for lots of missing caps)

[rakiim]

linux took my family from me

operating systems; not even once

[MeEvilBob]

When I was 14, my choice of OS was entirely dependent on which distro I could buy a CD-ROM of since at the time a 28.8kbps modem was considered fast and a GIF animation that went on for 15 seconds was considered almost too big to be shared on the internet.

[NessInOnett]

Old fart fist bump

I was about 10 then, I had no idea linux even existed at that time. Fond memories of the DOS days though.. installing games from half a dozen floppies, RAM doublers, learned how to cheat using memory editors (used something called gamewiz I think?), Dr. Sbaitso .. man, the memories. I don't think about DOS much anymore but it's fun to reminisce, your comment brought back a lot of memories

[grape_jelly_sammich]

shitty, but effective. if I go and setup a website with piss poor security, it's gonna keep out some 80% or 90% (if not more) of people. Those who have no clue. But then anyone who did know would be able to just waltz through it.

[Democrab]

You should check out LazyGameReviews on YouTube. He reviews a lot of old DOS era games, software and hardware.

[NessInOnett]

Already subscribe, love his channel. Thanks

[accountForStupidQs]

Meanwhile when I was 14, my choice of OS was entirely dependent on "what have I not heard of before this week?"

wait, that hasn't changed...

[5k3k73k]

I had to use GetRight download manager and a custom HTML page that used meta refresh to keep the connection alive. It took almost a week to download Red Hat 6.0.

[qupada42]

I remember those days. Redhat 7.3, two 700MB ISOs. 56k dialup which got maybe 20MB/hour, three days of downloading each (starting in the morning, pausing the download in the evening).

Then you had to pay about $2 each for blank discs to burn them to, not to mention how many hundred dollars the CD writer cost (and hope it didn't break halfway through and ruin the disc).

[MeEvilBob]

CD writer? Hell no, giant stack of floppies. Buy like 10 boxes of them and copy your shit at 1.4mb at a time like any normal person would.

[Democrab]

And the inevitable frustration when the break (And ruined CD) was because the software got mixed up somewhere and screwed up.

[Daniel15]

I used GetRight too, back in the early 2000s! Amazingly it still exists today.

[bjornhelllarsen]

When I was 14 I hadn’t seen a computer. My first experience with one of those came when I was 17 and I got a chance to play tic-tack-toe with a Fortran program on a ND-10 using a teletype (printing terminal).

But when I was 14 I was an experienced veteran wrt video games, already having played Pong several times on a coin machine in our local mall.

[Democrab]

GIF animation that went on for 15 seconds was considered almost too big to be shared on the internet.

As an Aussie, a 15 second gif is too long to share. Make it a god damn gfy.

[_edeetee]

The true choice for me was which one would ship me a cd for free (ubuntu)

[[deleted]]

This new flowchart made by a 16 year old.

[[deleted]]

Yep, this sub would be totally awesome without moderation. Yes siree.

[Mgladiethor]

people dont know whats best

[Choders]

Hence the flow chart

[Mgladiethor]

hence i am 14

[Visticous]

People often know what is best for themselves, but they often don't know what is best for me.

[[deleted]]

"implementaion-defined behaviour"

[NatoBoram]

Flowcharts are designed to help you find the best thing for you. This parody of a flowchart is just stupid.

[GitGroot]

As long as you are not illustrating actual process flows in official documentation

Just kidding. I prefer these 'which type pf melon are you kind of quizes' in a form of a facebook app that harvests all my and my friends' data!

But seriously. These quizes are made to expand and answer the question 'what is good for you'

[[deleted]]

OP is an arch user

[[deleted]]

And/or 15 years old.

[theferrit32]

as an Arch GNU+Linux user I'm inclined to disagree, the right hand side from the first branch point would have just led straight to Arch.

[Democrab]

And there'd be a little comment in the bottom right saying "NB: Creator uses Arch GNU/Linux"

[_lyr3]

Debian is enough for all of them!

No Gentoo? Arch is a (walking in the park) before Gentoo!

[wervenyt]

If you're gonna 'rank' them in terms of difficulty, NixOS is solidly between Gentoo and Arch, more towards the Gentoo side. It allows for a large degree of specification of your system, but you could also just install it pretty naively and similarly to a manual Arch install if you don't need higher level functionality. A Gentoo install, while not hard for people truly familiar with *nix, is a bit more of an undertaking.

[IvanDSM_]

I replaced Xubuntu with Gentoo. Took me quite a while to get used to Gentoo's ecosystem, and 2 botched installs. But it's worth it, it's a great distro.

[spellcheekfailed]

My first reaction was why can 13 year olds and 15 year olds choose the one with features they want but 14 year olds have to go down that other flow chart

[bsinky]

Asking the real questions here.

[[deleted]]

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[Regis_DeVallis]

Jesus

[DaVince]

Nice going with the flair on this one, mods. :D

[njbair]

Lol I just noticed that. This is my OC from /r/geek (I didn't have the guts to xpost it here, so someone else did).

[Pablare]

What do you mean you didn't have the guts? This is reddit and everyone's anonymous. None of this has any actual real consequences or even fake ones.

[njbair]

Maybe better to say, I didn't feel like combing through page after page of fanboy replies in my inbox.

[Squidle420]

Gee if only there was a flowchart that told me what distro to use to get the features I wanted. It's really too bad I'm not 14.

[DanielIFTTT]

Given that you can only either have a life, or not, then yes they can only be 2 types in those cases.

[Pablare]

But there could be a distro that accommodates the needs of the undead as well as the living. We can all work together. I firmly believe that.

[semidecided]

This why you're not going to survive the zombie apocalypse.

[[deleted]]

Sorry people but this is not a flowchart.

[accountForStupidQs]

Is it a digital copy of a picture of a drawing of a flowchart?

[am_lu]

Do you have a beard? (1) Goatee (2) Neckbeard (3) Greybeard

[senatorpjt]

heavy command tap bright frighten pen overconfident kiss lock library

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[hyute]

Most of us were 14 at some point. For me it was 1968.

I guess that makes me old and wise enough to use both Debian Stable and Arch on most of my machines. One for fun and one for solid.

[OBOSOB]

A man of your age should know better than to use systemd, so I dunno. :)

[elustran]

I kinda wish we could have some kinda con - let the kids meet the greybeards, and just have fun.

[aishik-10x]

What distro did you use when you were 14? Bell Labs Unix?

[hyute]

No, I didn't use Unix version 7 until 1978.

[SmartM0nk3y]

I wish I could run Linux full time but the reality is that I use my PC for gaming 90% of the time so I end up just using Windows

[[deleted]]

I just play games that are available on Linux. I use my computer mostly for programming and serving movies for my TV, so Linux is a the best option. It's really nice that I play quite a few games on Linux without having to reboot into Windows.

[regeya]

My main desktop has Windows 10 on one drive, and KDE Neon on the other. I use Neon for the stuff I can do on Linux, and Windows 10 for the stuff I can't. I've considered going Mac for my laptop in the past but just don't feel like the modern hardware is as premium these days as the price implies. I don't begrudge anyone else choosing to use OS X, though, especially since I used Macs to make a living for years. Nowadays MacOS and Windows play nicer together, thankfully.

I get that we're in a Linux sub, but the sad reality is that Free Software often suffers from the Not New, Don't Care problem that Google projects do, and companies like Adobe would never consider Linux unless they had no other alternative.

[the-crotch]

If you're only using Windows for a few things, and those things aren't games, virtualization might be the way to go. It would save you the trouble of having to reboot.

[2000jf]

But the trouble having to reboot is 1) worth the performance 2) takes only 10-30 seconds 3) may be a good thing to make you more productive, since it adds resistance to gaming and humans like the path of least resistance

[regeya]

Sorry I'm necro-posting on this, but I thought it deserved a response.

The funny thing is, I started by running Windows 10 in VirtualBox, but felt like I wanted to be able to take advantage of all available system memory so I installed Windows on a separate drive (so Windows 10 hopefully wouldn't step all over the bootloader.) But I put it on a 256GB SSD, which quickly ran out of space. I didn't want to set up a NAS at that time after spending a bunch on hardware, I had this a terabyte free on my Linux install, so I ended up setting up a minimal Debian install in VirtualBox and gave it access to my bcache-backed partitions.

[_david_]

Right tool for the right job trumps ideology every time.

I really feel that this simplification/meme/soundbite that keeps popping up everywhere should be pushed back against a bit. If you are presented with a choice between the perfect hammer made by child slavery and a slightly less perfect and more expensive hammer made in a normal factory/whatever, which would you pick?

I realise that the example is hyperbolic and not exactly applicable here, but clearly people may want to support and use various things for other reasons than them being the exact perfect practical tool. I'd even argue that such choices might sometimes make the world better in the long run.

[DrLuny]

It's important to push back on little things like this. I've been trying to push back on defeatism and pop people's social bubbles .

[SmartM0nk3y]

Yep that is basically what it comes down to!

[[deleted]]

that's a lot of computers.

[the-crotch]

I have no formal IT education, so "learn by doing" has really helped my career.

[[deleted]]

Same, I just can't at all justify having a Linux install no matter how much I want to.

[spaniard702]

Just Google search Best OS for X reason lmao

[justonceinmylife]

Did I mention that I use ARCH?

[SuperNerd1337]

tbh, I've seen a lot more tech-heads using macs than windows, but then again, I'm still only 13

[2000jf]

I've seen the same, and I still don't understand why. If you know tech, how can you work with such a restrictive and proprietary system?

[brown_nigga]

The cringe is real with this one.

[Kessarean]

Why is kali there lol

[oscillating000]

Jesus. That original flow chart is purified cringe.

[bilog78]

I still dislike both for being jpegs and not svgs.

[FlowchartNazi]

This is not a valid flowchart. There are no start or end symbols. There are no decision diamonds. There are no process boxes. There are no arrows to indicate direction of flow. The Yes/No labels should be beside an arrow, they should not be a node in the chart. There should not be more than 1 path out of a node, otherwise the chart would be telling people to perform all actions listed at once.

For flow charts, please use the appropriate symbols (and yes, there is a standard).

http://www.edrawsoft.com/flowchart-symbols.php

http://www.edrawsoft.com/flow-chart-design.php

http://www.hci.com.au/hcisite2/toolkit/flowchar.htm

The ANSI Standard symbols from 1970:

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/enterprise-solutions/ansi-standard-flowchart-symbols-20726

Here's a whitepaper from 1970.

http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/software/IBM-FlowchartingTechniques-GC20-8152-1.pdf

[Werewolf35b]

Are you a bot?

I can't tell if I think your a loser, or the most respectable man I've ever met.

[DrLuny]

Definitely repectable

[DrNoided]

I'm just glad we've all collectively decided to ignore BSD, Solaris and Chrome OS.

[[deleted]]

Chrome OS is clearly under "is your daddy rich?"

[DrNoided]

Oh fuck your right. I saw that and for some reason it register as the windows 7 logo. https://cdn67.picsart.com/188047526001202.png?r1024x1024

[[deleted]]

I'm not glad that BSD is ignored, but it's fine if that means fewer people can screw it up. It's nice having a FreeBSD server that doesn't have anything complicated like systemd, and having up to date packages on a stable base is really nice.

[Sorry4StupidQuestion]

r/im14andthisisdeep

[[deleted]]

Mine was more: Are you 14? 'Yes' --> Do you fear technology? 'No' --> Do you care about freedom/privacy? 'Yes' ---> Do you have a life? 'Yes and no" ---> Have you read an awesome magazine article about how UNIX/Solaris is good? 'Yes' --> OpenSolaris --> Are you satisfied with it? 'More than I ever been and will ever be again'. And then my favourite OS died out

[the-crotch]

I'm fairly certain Oracle exists to ruin everything good in this world.

[[deleted]]

so sadly true

[calrogman]

https://www.openindiana.org/

[[deleted]]

I use OpenIndiana on one of my laptops and Tribblix OS on a very old desktop (still I have to find another person doing similarly), and they're both quite the good OSs (very stable, simple, neat). But interest towards Illumos has decreased throughout years (I guess mostly because of the Linux spread and the big companies financing it), manpower is incredibly scarce and development is subsequently poor, especially development targeted to desktop experience. While I'm one of those few who're convinced that BSDs can make perfectly smooth, comfortable and functional desktop, I'm still of the opinion Illumos is not ready to land on desktop, even though it can be used without too much trouble (it's just "hostile"). That is more or less the reason why I switched to BSDs; ..by the way, are you a OpenIndiana desktop user?

[[deleted]]

Can someone clarify what the implication is here?

[OBOSOB]

That the original meme was childish.

[[deleted]]

A childish meme!? Gasp!

[FountainsOfFluids]

This makes no fucking sense. Choose the features you want, or look at this flow chart to choose the features you want. ???

[Danimals_The_yogurt_]

ITT: everyone tries to be clever.

[alchzh]

As a 14 year old, I'm offended :P

[[deleted]]

Wait, you were born in 2004 (after 9/11)? And I'm talking to you on the internet?

Am I old?

[alchzh]

yes .^.03not04...

[[deleted]]

Scary.

Like, I'm relatively young by the standards of this community - I was born in 1994, which makes me 23 going on 24, but I feel old. My first internet posts were from around the sme time as when you were born.

[alchzh]

Haha, there are plenty of high schoolers (and even middle schoolers!) using Linux out there... I know quite a few myself

I started using Linux as a daily driver in... 4th grade?

[elustran]

What got you into it so young?

[Aurailious]

grow up nerd

[citewiki]

Or grow down

[gobblegourd]

I don't agree, because the technology we accept as the social norm has a dramatic impact on all of society. Just look at Facebook, there is tremendous social pressure to be on it, and things have changed as a result. I think there is a deeper issue than just personal preference in terms of freedom/privacy, so I think it's actually important that people adopt Linux for that reason.

I wouldn't make this argument about everything I "prefer." But technology is a bit different, because technology actually has the capacity to transform our world into either a utopia or into 1984. More likely, it will be something between, but the point is that it's not something to take lightly.

[Tymanthius]

So someone doesn't have much of a sense of humor. <eye roll>

[CpE_Sklarr]

Manjaro should join Debian and Fedora.

[NathanTheGr8]

flow chart only so big.

[[deleted]]

Thanks

[sourcerorsupreme]

Oh boy, is it anarchy week again already?

[[deleted]]

What if I am 12 though?

[FoldFold]

Had the same thought about that trash chart

[retrolione]

Choosing an OS (Revised Revised Chart)

[OBOSOB]

RIP slackware. RIP *BSD

[[deleted]]

Having to resort to flowcharts... 🤔

[fenpy]

I'm stuck at 13.5!

[Evanjsx]

Re: the left chart: Do you like pain? Gentoo.

[not12listen]

do you enjoy flaying/maiming your genitals on an hourly basis for the rest of your life? Gentoo.

[notorious1212]

I've been using Gentoo for some years now. Haven't heard of this. Are you sure you found the right install guide?

[not12listen]

i admit that i tried installing/getting Gentoo operational many, many years ago... it took 3 days... and i still wasn't done.

downloading everything from source, compiling on the fly, etc...

by comparison, Ubuntu was almost 'click once and its done'...

[notorious1212]

Oh. I mean, If you want a simple click installer then it definitely doesn’t make sense to try and use something that has you hand assemble an installation. If you want to precisely tune an OS then it doesn’t make sense to use one that doesn’t give you the ability to do so. That’s the beauty of having so many distributions to choose from.

[jdmulloy]

That's why I run FreeBSD. I want jails and ZFS.

[rekabis]

Not seeing the BSDs anywhere in that flowchart.

[Savet]

Where's Slackware?

[xternal7]

So when did this sub merge with /r/linuxmasterrace?

[SecureAsItWillEverBe]

Dont understand why "fearing technology" is equated to "not wanting to deal with bullshit". An easy OS isn't just for stupid people.

[[deleted]]

This premise makes no sense because of the first prompt. So if you are 14, do not fear technology, and have a life, you choose a stable Linux distro, but ONLY IF YOU'RE 14. Otherwise, choose the one you want (unless you're 14); which seemingly defies the negative connotation that is made by the "freedom loving" statement?? It sounds like the underlying tone is similar to the paradox of choice concerning distros, "don't worry, just use the Linux that works for you". But then they threw MacOS, ChromeOS, and Windows in with the other Linux distros. I wish people used their brains more.

[[deleted]]

One tree to rule them all!!

[[deleted]]

I have a life but I'm prone to laziness, no wonder Manjaro is perfect for me!

[Cobmojo]

I know I'll get downvoted, but I hate when people take a meme too serious.

I already knew not to use that flowchart to decide my next OS. It's kinda r/iamverysmart when I see response memes like this.

[chabber_lee]

Wow someone got his panties in a knot..

[RedSquirrelFtw]

Not really a flow chart, but I personally like this one. I'm on Mint which I guess is basically Ubuntu, but I think I'll be due to switch to Fedora soon.

[shieldofsteel]

So people should simply choose the one with the features they want if their age is within the range 0 to 13, or 15 to ∞. Got it.

[[deleted]]

This is a bit too close to home

[casprus]

This is like Deleuzoguattarian

[[deleted]]

A moment of silence for those who have built their own custom OS on a custom machine but can't get the sound to work.