Is it time for "Free-nux"?

[Stentor]

My thinking is that most people can probably be quite content with a Linux box for their everyday usage.

Running Ubuntu 14.10 for the last month. Took me a day or two to get DVD authoring going and setting up OpenVPN with port forwarding. Those were the last two things I needed to avoid that cluster Windows totally.

[DiogenesLamp]

Running Ubuntu 14.10 for the last month. Took me a day or two to get DVD authoring going and setting up OpenVPN with port forwarding. Those were the last two things I needed to avoid that cluster Windows totally.

Did you do this for reasons of cost, tired of Microsoft operating system bullsh*t, or as a protest against Microsoft?

All of the above is also an good answer. :)

I understand the source code is available and anyone can modify it to suit themselves. I assume that's what people are doing when they set it up.

[GeronL]

Pale Moon or Waterfox are good variants of the Mozilla browser

[Star Traveler]

It’s kinda like me having a car that I’m driving now. Someone comes up and says, “You know, you really ought to be driving another kind of car, and I’ve got one for you that you’ll like. It will do everything that your car does now!”

Well, the problem with that is that I’ve got a car that I like now ... LOL ... And then, since I like this car, I’m probably going to buy a newer model of the same one.

You see ... I would not see the need to switch models of cars.

It would be the same here. But, it actually goes a bit beyond that. The first iPhone that came out, I got it. And I still like them. And then I have an iPad, which I’ll be updating with a newer model iPad. With just those two things, I don’t see any need for me going for a different brand, and I know another brand would not address the issues that some raise here.

If I were to go for some obscure model (which I have no idea what that would be), I would still encounter the issue that some raise, from the standpoint of the telecommunications companies (which you have to have for communicating). Furthermore, I haven’t heard a thing about the status of the Internet services, for getting the Internet and how they do in regards to this issue that some here raise.

From the way I see it, with the cellular phone service, to the cellular phones, to computers, to tablets, to Internet services ... I could twist myself into a pretzel and still not address the issue that some raise here ... :-) ...

SO ... I just buy the products for what a business is supposed to do for products and services ... which is sell the best product for their customers, and the customers evaluate it from their own personal standpoint.

Another “structural” way that conservatives and Christians can deal with the issue is to build companies which are so good, in their products and services, that the general public will buy their products and services solely on the basis of them being better than anyone else’s. That’s structural and long-term to accomplish that, but it’s doable. That way the customers still “buy the best” for their needs, and the companies who are supplying those products and services are conservatives.

Business is about making money by supplying the best for the customers. That “best” is always in the eyes of the buyer and no one else. Someone else cannot tell another buyer what is good for that “other buyer”. Therefore the business must do this and do it so that it is true with every buyer from their own standpoint.

And when a business succeeds in doing that, then they “make a whole lot of money”.

There’s the answer in the long run ... you have a business which builds the best and it is affirmed by every single buyer, and the customer give the business their money ... and the business makes a pile of money. The “pile of money” they make is the affirmation and proof that they are doing what they are supposed to be doing for their customers.

I’ve asked Swordmaker in on this one, because he’s run companies and is an economist, and perhaps he can shed light on this.

[Stentor]

All of the above is also an good answer. :)

A little of all of the above. Gates is such a skanky little NWO monster. As far as modifying source code goes, perish the thought. I've been playing with linux distributions for a long time with no coding ability whatever. It's finally to the point where it installs itself and the few things you need are easy to get from package repositories or by copying and pasting scripts. Lot of info out there. Installed on a Dell Inspiron 5520 and everything worked immediately.

[GeronL]

I heard that my favorite games, War Thunder etc, are available on Linux. Cool

[Stentor]

I heard that my favorite games, War Thunder etc, are available on Linux. Cool

Not really a gamer. Know nothing.

[Doug Loss]

What kind of web browser does Linux use? FireFox comes with pretty much every distro, and Google Chrome is available for free download. If you want a non-proprietary version of Chrome, there’s Chromium available on most software repositories. I’m currently using Pale Moon, an Open Source, Firefox-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows, Android and Linux (with other operating systems in development), focusing on efficiency and ease of use.

[JRandomFreeper]

Those sound like beer names. LOL!

/johnny

[GeronL]

I am not a gamer, I do have a favorite game though

[GeronL]

Pale Moon Ale

Waterfox Hard Lager

[JRandomFreeper]

LOL!

/johnny

[zeugma]

You have a huge choice of browsersand just about any other software you want. There are some exception Visio being one of the major ones. But for everyday softeare, there are plenty of alternatives. I use Firefox, but occasionally use konqueror, or Opera for web browsing. For documents, you can use libreoffice or Koffice. For vids, vlc is hard to beat as it will play just about anything.

You can rip CDs with several program. I normally use grip for that, and k3b for ripping vids. Audacity makes it easy to work with audio files.

If you’d like to run your own webserver, there is Apache, and many other options.

The amount of software available is astounding, when you consider that almost all of it is free, and is available in seconds via a package manager if you stick with a major distribution like Fedora, or an Ubuntu variant like Mint.

[DiogenesLamp]

It’s kinda like me having a car that I’m driving now. Someone comes up and says, “You know, you really ought to be driving another kind of car, and I’ve got one for you that you’ll like. It will do everything that your car does now!”

Well, the problem with that is that I’ve got a car that I like now ... LOL ... And then, since I like this car, I’m probably going to buy a newer model of the same one.

Yeah, but from my perspective, the car is manufactured by Ernst Röhm incorporated, and it might be a good car and all, but i'd rather not be compelled to wear Yellow Stars and have my windows broken in the not so distant future.

In such a case, a "good enough" car is a vast improvement.

Another “structural” way that conservatives and Christians can deal with the issue is to build companies which are so good, in their products and services, that the general public will buy their products and services solely on the basis of them being better than anyone else’s.

That's a pretty tall order given the head start in money and expertise owned by the Homo-Fascists. Had we known they were going to be Homo-Fascists in the first place, we could have been working at killing their brand back in the 70s and 80s.

It is a harsh fact, that the leader in Tech is pretty much positioned to remain the leader in Tech. There are all sorts of synergistic monopolies that contribute to them in maintaining this condition.

Business is about making money by supplying the best for the customers. That “best” is always in the eyes of the buyer and no one else. Someone else cannot tell another buyer what is good for that “other buyer”. Therefore the business must do this and do it so that it is true with every buyer from their own standpoint.

I dare say offering assurances that your money won't go towards National Socialist supporting organizations that want to use the weight of their fortune and the power of the government to persecute you, might be viewable as "Best" by those people affected. It might be a very effective marketing scheme, and therefore a good business strategy.

There’s the answer in the long run ... you have a business which builds the best and it is affirmed by every single buyer, and the customer give the business their money ... and the business makes a pile of money. The “pile of money” they make is the affirmation and proof that they are doing what they are supposed to be doing for their customers.

Sure it is, but how big a pile of money do you think they would have made had they come out for religious suppression back in the 1970s or 1980s?

I urge you to read the book "The Rhinemann Exchange." It made an impression on me.

[DiogenesLamp]

A little of all of the above. Gates is such a skanky little NWO monster. As far as modifying source code goes, perish the thought. I've been playing with linux distributions for a long time with no coding ability whatever. It's finally to the point where it installs itself and the few things you need are easy to get from package repositories or by copying and pasting scripts. Lot of info out there. Installed on a Dell Inspiron 5520 and everything worked immediately.

Good to know. I plan on finding out myself sometime in the near future.

[wardaddy]

Well duh

You are pretty much like an Apple political operative here

Even if you aren’t it feels like it

And we’ve had plenty of folks here on purpose for third party agendas from the Bushes to black GOP clubs and so forth

And I like you

You’re fairly unflappable

A quality I never mastered

[DiogenesLamp]

What kind of web browser does Linux use? FireFox comes with pretty much every distro, and Google Chrome is available for free download. If you want a non-proprietary version of Chrome, there’s Chromium available on most software repositories. I’m currently using Pale Moon, an Open Source, Firefox-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows, Android and Linux (with other operating systems in development), focusing on efficiency and ease of use.

I do what I can to stay away from the most evil company in the world. (Google, the new Stasi.) So I won't be using Chrome. I currently use Pale Moon. I don't want to support the Homo-Fascists at Mozilla either. Remember Brendan Eich?

I somehow got the notion that a Linux based Web Browser would be something custom. I didn't know that various companies have created Linux based versions, but I suppose I should have realized this.

[DiogenesLamp]

The amount of software available is astounding, when you consider that almost all of it is free, and is available in seconds via a package manager if you stick with a major distribution like Fedora, or an Ubuntu variant like Mint.

That's good to know. It sounds like it will handle most of what I do. Do you know if there is a C++ Compiler available for it? Somehow I don't think "Visual Studios" will run on Linux. :)

I'll probably have to keep a few Windows machines around anyway.

[Doug Loss]

As someone else said up-thread, there are also Konqueror and Opera for web browsers.

[mountainbunny]

I urge you to thoughtfully reconsider Mint.The developer is strongly anti-Israel. Mint is derived from Ubuntu, which as far as I know, has no political opinions at all. I am a former Mint user who dumped it when I discovered this.
http://warped-mirror.com/2012/02/26/linux-mint-israel-and-me/