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What's ideally the best OS? I've always been Windows and Mac is just stupid, but is Linux good?
Saturday, 22-Dec-12 23:39:28 UTC from web-
@nixter I think GNU/Linux is pretty damn good, but you need to be more precise with what you want. There is no "best OS". There is only a "best OS for this specific job".
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@nixter if you want to play games easily and not have to make sure the 1% of steam games out there work, windows is your most likely option...
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@unhipdruid Seems good!
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@nixter That OS that's in all the movies seems pretty good. You can hack any system in the world just by mashing on the keyboard, and it never seems to crash or run out of resources.
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@ceruleanspark also seems to have many different themes, skins or Distros...
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@ceruleanspark Truly the pinnacle of all OS' ever.
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@unhipdruid So Linux is for like people who actually do productive stuff?
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@unhipdruid None of which seem to have been designed with human interaction in mind. After all, who'd want a system that invariably makes all progress bars full screen and doesn't include a cancel button on any long running operation?
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@nixter as i see it.
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@ceruleanspark Yeah, but if someone hacks you, then the computer explodes.
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@ceruleanspark Must be Backtrack Linux (at least, that's the closest we can get).
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@omni Backtrack isn't that good. It took me MONTHS to be able to sort-of-manage basic network penetration against a largely nonhostile environment.
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@unhipdruid Gaming works fine under Linux. I do game, but I only have a few games (Minetest, Red Eclipse, Xonotic, Vore Tournament).
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@omni yea, thats gaming. but i game differently...
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@ceruleanspark That is to say it's not good from the "Slam on the keyboard to hack" perspective. It is a /very/ good pentesting suite.
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@omni my games need DX3D etc... a microsoft ONLY technology... sigh...
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@unhipdruid Because Microsoft kept telling everyone it's much better than OpenGL. VALVe kinda proves the opposite with their early Linux ports of games like TF2. Now if only ATI and Nvidia could make good graphic card drivers.
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@omni Their drivers work just fine.
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@nixter Pretty much everything except running software for another platform (and we can even do that a bit, but not more than a bit)
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@ceruleanspark That's a fake, right? Please tell me it is.
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@omni i love OpenGL it has things before D3D does, yea NV have great drivers now also on linux!
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@omni @thatonepony It's from Weekly World News, who're fairly well established to be absolutely crazy.
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@nerthos ATI drivers are practically impossible to correctly install and are prone to strange graphic issues, and Nvidia wrongly implements stuff which sometimes causes GPU locks (and just putting ndiswrapper around the Windows drivers isn't really going to help with "giving a quality experience"). I literally had to go for the reverse-engineered nouveau drivers because they are more stable than the official Nvidia drivers.
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@omni i have had no such issues with Nvidia drivers personally. i have had SO MANY ISSUES with ATI/AMD
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@ceruleanspark I remember when that one was published... my first thought was that comp was already a bomb.
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@colfax Hypothetically speaking if you had a desktop and hooked up a lump of C4 to the internal drive cables you could probably cause it to detonate on command by telling it to start writing to the drive in question.
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@omni like i said, i work in winders... so i have not had issues with native windows NV Drivers.
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@ceruleanspark You're not thinking hollywood enough, go watch "Live Free or Die Hard" and see how they do it.
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@colfax Making things explode is just an AOE power Bruce Willis has.
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@ceruleanspark Yeah, and this is before he's even involved in the situation, just imagine the devastation if they'd waited a few minutes.
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