Post B19CgTOQIX0aUCgUvA by rperezrosario@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #B15Fy6QZwXyjhfx1gu by rperezrosario@mastodon.social
2025-12-09T18:08:01Z
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Out of the following operating systems, which one do you use the most, not at work, but in your free personal time?Please consider boosting for a larger sample size. Thank you.#poll #os #computing #fediverse
(DIR) Post #B15Fy83xrb4sm7Nzii by brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
2025-12-09T20:56:20Z
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@rperezrosario@mastodon.social OpenBSD
(DIR) Post #B15HSNDGCVdwP4ifho by matty@nicecrew.digital
2025-12-09T21:14:17.819628Z
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If there was more game support on Linux I'd run Linux full time but for my use case, it's pointless.
(DIR) Post #B15I0zFxGKukEsU7qS by xaetacore@neondystopia.world
2025-12-09T21:19:38.189Z
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@matty@nicecrew.digital 90 percent of all games run and most if not all future games run too some even better than on windows.Its up to the shitty devs to tick a box in their AC to make the 9 percent work then 1 percent incompatible I started using Linux when we only had quake and DDR and it has come so far I can play almost any game I want without issue the only games that can't are the ones that have kernel level anticheat but even then there are plenty of anti cheat games that work fine on Linux I would wait until the gabecube gets released because that will send an important signal to developers that Linux is becoming a player in the gaming space. They don't have to make nateed builds for Linux we don't need that Thanks to wine and Proton we need them to Tick a Box
(DIR) Post #B15I59D2CRsSGX6R72 by matty@nicecrew.digital
2025-12-09T21:21:18.770161Z
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I've not had luck getting Wine to work with older games, but most of them are made for Windows specifically. I've noticed Proton's database looking better, but it's still not quite there enough for me to make a full commitment. I prefer Linux to Windows but not enough to sacrifice the shit that I use Windows for to find alternatives.
(DIR) Post #B15IHoRihx3ddP0kUK by xaetacore@neondystopia.world
2025-12-09T21:22:58.670Z
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@matty@nicecrew.digital completely understandable which is exactly why I recommend in your case that you wait until the developers fix their shit.I decided I got so fed up with Windows that those games aren't worth it for me anymore we all reached that point sooner or later and it makes the transition so much more rewarding
(DIR) Post #B15ILhdPySc3fTKzgG by lethn@nicecrew.digital
2025-12-09T21:24:05.398633Z
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Can confirm, the gaslighting from Linux users over compatibility with classic games and others is ridiculous. I also like being able to pirate games properly even the ones that I own so I can play offline. Doing anything on Linux is completely retarded and I am not going back to what are essentially MS-DOS prompts in order to get anything working.Also open source has a furry problem, I'm not making that up.
(DIR) Post #B15LzW9OOKkDUnyDCq by justine@snac.smithies.me.uk
2025-12-09T22:04:35Z
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OpenBSD :openbsd:
(DIR) Post #B15kXAEgm1LYH61ZPk by crimsonredsoviet@social.xenofem.me
2025-12-10T02:23:30.792643Z
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@brettm @rperezrosario that is UNIX
(DIR) Post #B15kXeKks21Zcb5q2C by brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
2025-12-10T02:39:07Z
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for legal reasons they call it "unix-like" 🙂
(DIR) Post #B16pnkziZGIdqEiH44 by publicvoit@graz.social
2025-12-10T15:13:46Z
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@rperezrosario This is a good data point how particular special and small this #Fediverse #bubble actually is.#Linux doesn't play any major role when you look at common #OS #statistics. However, here, it's the OS of choice for the majority of this tiny minority. 🤓I like it here, btw.#Mastodon #niche
(DIR) Post #B174fIAtKkr3SEMSJ6 by ReggieHere@mastodon.social
2025-12-10T18:00:18Z
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@publicvoit @rperezrosario My first thought exactly. It's a completely different world outside of this pleasant bubble.
(DIR) Post #B183b5o5TAPp8r5XCi by evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-12-11T05:23:01Z
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@rperezrosario FreeBSD for fun and a NetBSD for bigger fun :netbsd:
(DIR) Post #B18STDybhzo917LzsG by ity@estradiol.city
2025-12-09T20:57:10Z
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@rperezrosario other, mostly Linux and BSDs, no GNU.
(DIR) Post #B18STEws5w0u21Y7o8 by chrastecky@phpc.social
2025-12-10T11:32:25Z
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@ity @rperezrosario Really no GNU? Isn't that kinda hard on Linux?
(DIR) Post #B18STFoOsupci2asF6 by ity@estradiol.city
2025-12-10T12:39:10Z
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@chrastecky @rperezrosario not really, no, GNU never was that important of a part.
(DIR) Post #B18STGMQqO3OPaW3Hs by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
2025-12-11T09:47:24.705Z
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@ity@estradiol.city @chrastecky@phpc.social @rperezrosario@mastodon.social Except without GNU neither the Linux kernel nor a freedom respecting version of BSD would have ever existed.
(DIR) Post #B18WP5KKKFcuqgnKGu by catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-12-10T09:09:07Z
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@rperezrosario @jackyan Android (kinda linux, but not really)
(DIR) Post #B18WP6JIfYOptnK1JI by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-12-11T10:45:54.025001Z
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@catsalad @rperezrosario @jackyan It's incredible that people tie themselves in knots just to avoid naming the GNU, and therefore write insanity like "kinda linux, but not really".The difference between GNU/Linux and Android is that Android by default lacks GNU, while it uses mostly the same version of the kernel, Linux (although usually with a broken configuration of course).
(DIR) Post #B18WzgFUWmxVmkz0Fc by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-12-11T10:52:29.352479Z
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@ity @chrastecky @rperezrosario >Poster who doesn't even know what OS they're using.I've inspected the so called "GNU-free Linux distros" and every single time I've realized that such distro's are GNU/Linux distros, that even use the GNU GRUB OS as the bootloader, except there are a handful of GNU packages swapped for inferior implementations, like musl instead of glibc (spoiler; not using a handful of GNU packages by default, while using the rest of GNU and having the package manager full of GNU, doesn't magically make a GNU/Linux distro not GNU/Linux).Alpine GNU/Linux even uses GNU coreutils (although there is a cut down installer that uses BusyBox coreutils instead just to be edgy - but really the "extended" installer is really the standard installer and the first thing that any sane user who uses the broken installer does, would be to install the missing parts of GNU via the package manager).(GNU is an important part of BusyBox, as a lot of ancient GNU code was copy-pasted into BusyBox).
(DIR) Post #B18YlHNwNEBgWgCCIq by Mamako@tsundere.love
2025-12-11T11:12:20.339376Z
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@Suiseiseki @catsalad @jackyan @rperezrosario why would you go out of your way to use an inferior product if you’re already trying to avoid MAC and windows?
(DIR) Post #B18g7QIobDAAEUIwCW by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
2025-12-11T12:34:44.698Z
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@ity@estradiol.city @chrastecky@phpc.social @rperezrosario@mastodon.social Just to clarify if Richard Stallman didn't convince the developers 386BSD to remove its proprietary components, all the modern BSD distributions that we have today would still be using proprietary Unix components.
(DIR) Post #B18gB4m2aGpGcZiT8C by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
2025-12-11T12:35:23.817Z
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@ity@estradiol.city @chrastecky@phpc.social @rperezrosario@mastodon.social And Linux would be an irrelevant hobby project because there would have been no actual operating system to ship it with.
(DIR) Post #B18gFjHXux9TPgfhDs by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
2025-12-11T12:36:16.211Z
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@ity@estradiol.city @chrastecky@phpc.social @rperezrosario@mastodon.social Oh and Linux wouldn't be free software either, it would've used Torvald's original proprietary license.
(DIR) Post #B18ggcfyaQCCkBvFEu by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-12-11T12:41:07.787582Z
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@SuperDicq @chrastecky @ity @rperezrosario He and others convinced the developers to consider licensing under a free license, rather than a proprietary one.All modern BSD distributions are still using proprietary components derived from Unix, as all of them contain many unlicensed files.
(DIR) Post #B18gwhixaLyz29zCoC by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-12-11T12:44:02.771788Z
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@SuperDicq @chrastecky @ity @rperezrosario Torvalds couldn't have even started to write Linux if it wasn't for GNU and GCC.
(DIR) Post #B18ktrBsKh5lLDPPWq by ity@estradiol.city
2025-12-11T13:26:15Z
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@SuperDicq @chrastecky @rperezrosario What operating system? Sure, if we assume that GNU's contribution is RMS convincing others to open source stuff, what does that have to do with "having an actual operating system to ship it with"?
(DIR) Post #B18ktsW7OusXSHt5ii by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
2025-12-11T13:28:16.104Z
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@ity@estradiol.city @chrastecky@phpc.social @rperezrosario@mastodon.social Linux is just a kernel, it doesn't do much on it's own so people wouldn't be able to use it.What is the purpose of a kernel if you have no bootloader, no userland, no utilities, no shell, no standard libraries, etc.?
(DIR) Post #B18lHTmL1s8rgFjCcK by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-12-11T13:32:36.470436Z
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@ity @SuperDicq @chrastecky @rperezrosario rms has never asked anyone to "open source" anything - he asks people to release software as free software."open source" infidelity originated in 1998 - GNU originated in 1984.rms was the original developer of many GNU packages; https://www.gnu.org/software/Before there was no free C compiler, meaning it was impossible to have a free C OS or a free C kernel, but wrote the first version of GCC and released it.
(DIR) Post #B18vcbE1XNRqOlO4oa by squid64@fedi.squid64.ca
2025-12-11T15:28:00Z
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The fediverse, really the only place where you can expect GNU/Linux users to make the majority. I am surprised to see more macOS users than Windows users though.
(DIR) Post #B19CgTOQIX0aUCgUvA by rperezrosario@mastodon.social
2025-12-11T18:35:21Z
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@edboythinks A bit? 😁 The #Fediverse runs on #Linux.
(DIR) Post #B19CgUVY9WIrwb1hfU by justine@snac.smithies.me.uk
2025-12-11T18:38:39Z
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Not here it doesn't. It's powered by #FreeBSDCC: @edboythinks@hachyderm.io