Linux

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GNU+Linux, or as I have recently taken to calling it, GANOO/GANDOO/GAHDUU/SystemD/SystemDihhh🥀/Udev/DBus/Wayland/TransRights/Loonix, is the result of decades of combined effort between controversial fat atheist Jewish software developer (((Richard Stallman))) and faggot tranny hardware engineer Lord Xaddy Torvalds. It really only exists to further the purposes of soyposting because (You) can't actually use it for school or work^{[you just can't, ok?]} since that usually requires you to use Microsoft Office to write shitty text files^{[even though you can use libreoffice or google's suite on the web if you're a retard who's scared of open source software]}, or Adobe Photoshop to draw circles (which is impossible to do in GIMP) ^{[even though there are other digital editing programs]}, but you can quote 'boys like there's no tomorrow'. It is primarily used by either chuds or trannies, there is no in-between. If you own a ThinkPad you VVILL INSTALL LINVX.

Linux is a kernel and not an operating system, albeit allowing for a shit ton of crappy (and gemmy) OS thingythings to even exist. The vanilla Linux kernel is almost 40% proprietary binary blobs^[Marge...]. Alternatives can be GANOO-slash-Linux-libre, Hurd, Plan9 or any BSD like FreeBSD or OpenBSD! DEATH TO THE PENGUIN!

Recently, although Linux was written only in C (because Linus was too much of a nigger to understand C++ o algo (ev&oe C++ is too voodoo)), it has begun to be written in Rust due to a growing tranny RVSTARYAN Rust programmer community.

GANOO/Loonix Distros

oh nonononono ganoocacas they really look like this

>fastfetch like having fun i don't give a fuck

Here is the guide for reading o algx.

If it glows like this then it means that they are going to add (((age verification))) to their distro. Read more here <--- meds it's an optional soystemdihhh🥀 component

Debian-based

• Debian - The literal father of Ubuntu. Outdated packages award. Most stable of distro of the list.^{[it just is, ok?]}
• Devuan - Debian but without soystemD.
• AntiX Loonix - Antifascist lightweight distro meant for older PCs.
• Deepin - Chink glowie distro. (you haven't seen Ubuntu Kylin doe)
• Kali - Distro for skids and jeets to larp as 1337 381N H4X0rz.
• LMDE - Linux Mint Debian Edition. Linux Mint but based directly on Debian instead of Ubuntu. It was created by the creators of Linux Mint as something to fall back on in case Ubuntu became too coally.
• Ubuntu - Loonix for NPCs but trannies seethe when you use it so it's good (even though Ubuntu is an ancient African word for "humanity to others" or something like that). Recently started to jew out by adding useless bloatware, also trannyware by replacing sudo with a rust fork, which doesnt event work geg. It even sends telemetry data to Canonical, making it essentially the same as using Windows. DO NOT USE IT.
  • Pop!_OS - Built by System76 on Ubuntu. Comes on their computers. Adds its own desktop environment (COSMIC, see below) and has some drivers if you're too lazy to get Nvidia ones. They hate age verification.
  • elementaryOS - Despite the creator trooning out, the design of the system itself remains very human as it puts a far more skeuomorphic touch on the shitty Adawaita GNOME theme, making it look less like off-brand post-Big Sur macOS and more like Catalina. And it even has its own programming language called Vala.
  • Linux Mint - Actually a pretty good distro for normal people. The creator also hates Jews^🗝️ (and sucks Palestinian cock)^🔒 in case you care about that stuff.
• Tails OS - Best distro for 'teens. The Sharty Onion service is down, and because Sharty uses CuckFlare and it blocks all Tor IPs, this distro isn't suitable for 'teens at the moment. Best known for BTFOing le glowies ^{[it is probably backdoored via drivers doe]}. Otherwise lackluster.

Arch-based

• Arch Loonix - The favorite distro of troons and Quote ^{there's a difference?}. I use arch btw. Arch Linux features the very gemmy AUR (Arch User Repository) which has almost all the software you could ask for and is almost always up to date (though you need an AUR helper to use it; I recommend paru because it's a faster version of yay and generally better maintained). It runs on a rolling release model so software is always up to date, and there's no need to upgrade to a new version every few years. Also the Arch Wiki is extremely gemmy documentation. Normies think that it is very difficult to install manually (hence why people are very pretentious about using it, and why (((archinstall))) was created), but it's actually just a matter of following the installation guide. Their wiki contains highly detailed documentation about a lot of software, but the wiki's jannies remove pages of anything they don't like such as XLibre.
• CachyOS - The most Aryan kernel for Linux. It optimizes every package for your system and is built on Arch Linux. It's designed to be super easy to use.
• Omarchy - Arch Linux but brimstone, it ruins the entire minimalist point of Arch Linux with jewish bloat.
• EndeavourOS - Gemmy arch based distro, quite literally Arch without the complicated install process and offers many desktop environments.
• Garuda Linux - Absolute GEM of an OS based on ARCH (I only use it because of pacman >though). Has a wide variety of variants with different desktop environments and themes.
• Artix Loonix - Like the above but without SoystemD. Its creators hate troons^🗝️.
• Parabola Linux - Arch but strictly free software and has OpenRC init support.

RPM-based

• Fedora - Corporate distro or something. Unpaid Beta Tester for RHEL award. Their maintainer (Red Hat/IBM) also tries to force shit like Shitstaind, Wayland and Fatpak. Also woke as fuck.
• Rocky Linux - Enterprise Linux distro based on Fedora.
• CentOS - Though more related to RedHat than Fedora, it does not suck dick.
• OpenSUSE - Like Linux Mint, the devs hate da joos.

Other

• Gentoo - The favorite distro of Aryans. << TRVTH NVKE TRVTH NVKE!!!! < lienvke < trannies use this too albeit. Contrary to popular belief, Gentoo is really easy to install when you follow the Handbook on the Gentoo Wiki. << waited 1 week for xis kernel to compile on his AMD Fusion award << Takes me 20 minutes to update @world on a Ryzen 5 2600
• VoidLoonix - Shitty Arch ripoff that uses Troonit instead of SoystemD, maintained by 5 people and is the same as Artix Loonix but the creators are troons. _{used to it was some chud from peru who previously worked of netbsd but he dissapeared so now the tranny coup happened.}
• Slackware - Oldfag distro that nobody cares about anymore. (Forgotten gem)
• NixOS - Tranny distro where you declare your packages like a programming language
• Guix - Like NixOS but strictly free software. Endorsed by the GNU project. Uses GNU Shepherd as it's init.
• Pardus - Turkish glowie distro.
• Astra - Ruzzian glowie distro.
• OpenMandriva Lx - Oldfag distro. Continuation of Mandrake, is often shilled by Linux jewtuber (((Lunduke))) for not being woke or whatever.
• Linux From Scratch - Nerd shit.
• Crunchbangplusplus - Continuation of Crunchbang which is based off Debian. Uses cinnamon.
• Alpine Linux - Lightweight distro, BTFOs GNU, though the creators are troons.
• Funtoo - Dead fork of Gentoo by its original creator who didn't like the direction it was going.
• Mageia - Another fork of Mandrake, SNCA and irrelevant.
• GoboLinux - Completely changes the file system hierarchy for basically no reason. The devs say it results in a cleaner system o algo but everything needs to be symlinked from the traditional directories anyway.
• Qubes OS - Runs everything inside of virtual machines called "Qubes." It's considered fairly secure because everything is isolated but you need quite a bit of disk space, processing power, and RAM to run it.
• Both Android and ChromeOS are technically Linux distros (without the ganoo), but most normies don't know this and linuxGODS don't tend to consider them as distros despite both being open-sourced.

Distros for Mobile Devices

• PostMarketOS - Phone distro based on Alpine.
• Ubuntu Touch - Ubuntu but for phones.
• Mobian - Debian but for phones.
• SailfishOS - Proprietary OS made for Jolla phones.

Desktop Environments

GTK-based

• GNOME - iToddler LARP o algo, Quote uses this.
• GNOME Legacy - MATE but more recent o algo. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES INSTALL WITHOUT INSTALLING AN OLD GNOME THEME LIKE HUMAN OR SIMILAR BEFOREHAND, OTHERWISE YOU'RE GOING TO BE FLASHBANGED WITH EXTREMELY THICK TITLE BARS.
• Cinnamon - A fork from GNOME. Basically only used by default on one single Distro (Linux Mint) (ev&oe some other distros have it but nobody uses it).
• XFCE - Lightweight DE (but consumes more memory than KDE or however my clitty leaks). 'teens sometimes call it XFeces.
• MATE - A fork from an old version of Gnome. For oldfags. AS ALWAYS, DO NOT EVER INSTALL WITHOUT THE OG MATE THEMEPACK, AS UBUNTU MATE, FOR EXAMPLE, TRIMS THAT COMPONENT OUT.
• Budgie - DE that nobody cares about. Has some cool stuff like a sidebar but nothing actually takes advantage of that.
• Unity - Made by the Ubuntu devs for them to use instead of GNOME. In the end it was a huge waste of money and time and they switched back to GNOME. Terry Davis recommends!
• LXDE - Yet another lightweight DE o algo, looks outdated and is also abandonware.

Qt-based

• KDE Plasma - The one that looks the most like Windows and has the stability of Windows (ev&oe cinnamon looks even more like it) <--Simply untrue take your meds, Microsoft even stole some ideas from them^{[they just did, ok?]}. It is also known for being very customizable. Also maintained by troons and uses QT which looks ugly as fuck because it tries to rip off the already shitty UX practices of Windows. Breaks after a while of use.
• DDE - Desktop Environment used by the Chinese spyware distro Deepin.
• LXQt - LXDE but is more modern and uses Qt. Actually maintained unlike LXDE.
• Trinity - MATE but for KDE. Literally no one uses this.

Other

• Cosmic - Made by System76 for Pop!_OS, but available for other distros. Looks like a mix between GNOME and a tiling window manager. Written in Rust, which automatically makes it trannyware.
• CDE - Oldfag desktop environment. Not really worth using today except for nostalgia.

Made for Phones

• Plasma Mobile - KDE Plasma but for phones.
• GNOME Mobile - GNOME but for phones.
• Phosh - Fork of GNOME that actually tries to make it usable on a phone without being shit.
• Sxmo - TWMs but for phones.
• Lomiri - Based on the old abandoned DE for Ubuntu named Unity, this comes as the default on Ubuntu Touch but is also available for PostMarketOS.

Made for TVs

• Plasma Bigscreen - KDE Plasma but for TVs.

Stacking window managers

• Openbox - Independent WM (used in LXDE by default, or GNOME by choice).
• Mutter - GNOME's WM (technically a Wayland compositor), massive bloated piece of shit.
• KWin - KDE's WM (also a wayland compositor), and can tile.
• Xfwm - XFCE's WM, the only DE-affiliated WM in this list to not be a Wayland compositor.
• IceWM - Oldfag ('97) WM with a taskbar. Also the only WM worth using.
• Window Maker - Oldfag ('97) WM that replicates the look and feel of the NeXTSTEP user interface.

Tiling window managers

You can also use tiling window managers, which are essentially a kind of window manager that arranges windows in a grid-like fashion rather than by stacking/overlapping. Some people think tiling window managers are troonware but honestly they are pretty comfy to use and pretty good for your productivity once you get used to them since you can just do everything with your keyboard. There are many to choose from. I personally used i3 which is built on X11 and moved to sway which is a Wayland version of i3 ev&oe wayland is broken troonslop (WE GET IT NIGGER SHUDDUP) and also drew devault (the guy who wrote it) is an avowed lolifag. Whenever troons post their riced desktops they are usually using a tiling window manager. You should use Hyprland because the creator is super based and hates trannies btw. (Actually, the creator is a Branigger) Soyckless also made dwm which is minimal so they made sxwm which is more minimal which is a bit like bspwm. (The 'b' stands for boobies.)

Technically it's only called a "tiling window manager" if it uses x11 and if it uses Wayland it's called a "tiling Wayland compositor" but who cares?

After you are done you can rice your desktop to make yourself look like a super cool hacker rices won't cure your crippling depression and will make you look either autistic or faggy

Creator

Linus Torvalds

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Edit: Thanks for the gold kind stranger! Really well meme'd my friend!

>	Hell no, I wrote my own fucking compiler, I'm not a nigger like Linus!	<
Terry Davis

The obsessed tranny nigger behind Linux, Linus Torvalds.

Linus Benedict Torvalds (or Troonvalds), the creator of Linux, is a known lolcow. Linus is from Finland and descends from a family of Swedish origin (so xe is a Swedish Fail), and xe is possibly (((Jewish)))^{[he just is, ok?]}. Xe is best known for for being called a nigger by Terry Davis for not making his own compiler, seething about how C++ is bad or something despite being literally just a better version of C, being BVCK BROKEN by Russians so hard xe had an obsessed schizo meltdown, and being trans^{[xe just is, ok?]}. He's also a literal predditor. Xe shills atheism incessantly, whines about muh trans rights, doubled down on being a "woke communist" in response to someone who called him that (ev&oe that doesnt even mean anything o algo, but in fact xis father was actually a Communist who supported the Soviet Union), shills anarchism, worships NAFO, and makes edgelord insults and has tantrums against others thinking xe is a badass when in reality xe just sounds like an obnoxious manchild. Also xe did not even create Linux lmao, everyone else did and Linus contributed nothing to modern Linux. Linus has no diplomacy or vision, just ego and aggression, like a literal Reddit mod. Also in addition to not writing an operating system, Linus never wrote xis own compiler.

He is in the WEF, DOCTOOS!!

Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman is (((Jewish))).

Richard Stallman, the king of /g/.

Richard Matthew Stallman also known by his initials rms, is the creator of the GNU Project, and an intelligent white man (even doe he's jewish) seeking a sweetie. He is worshiped by people on /g/ on 4chan. He is one of the largest proponents of FOSS or FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software), and he is basically an obese Jewish communist and looks like a hobo. He got made fun of by Terry Davis. He has weird beliefs regarding Linux (xey think that you should only use free software, yet also have freedom of your OS). Also, he supported pedophilia in the past, but no longer supports it.

Bash

Bash (Bourne Again Shell) is a command line interpreter and scripting language for UNIX systems. It is the default on Linux. You should install Zsh (Z shell) if you want the more oldfaggy experience as it is being also used in BSD and Darwin/Mac, and (DO NOT) use Oh My Zsh (omz) with it instead since it's more heckin customizable, and that's why trannies love it.

Soyquoting with Bash^[Marge...]

The man behind the tools used here, Richard Soylman

KEK! NUSOIS DON'T EVEN USE FREE SOFTWARE!

Here are some ways to optimize and invigorate your soyquoting. Even if you have Windows or whatever, just install Bash (Borne-again Soy H). Make sure you have sed and the other tools made by the fat pedo who eats shit from his foot. (Emacs will always be a gem, in fact, we are working on Sharty support for Emacs so that Richard Stallman will be able to post on /sci/ personally!)

# Greentext every line
echo "OFFENDING_TEXT_HERE" | sed 's/^/>/g' # or
sed 's/^/>/g' "OFFENDING_TEXT_FILE"

# Redtext every line
echo "OFFENDING_TEXT_HERE" | sed 's/^\(.*\)$/==\1==/g' # or,
sed 's/^\(.*\)$/==\1==/g' "OFFENDING_TEXT_FILE"

# Sort text and then greentext it (goes well with Markovquoting<ref>Markovquoting is the use of a markov chain model to generate responses in a soyduel or however the burgers are flipped</ref>)
echo "SOYSPEAK_HERE" | sort | sed 's/^/>/g'

# Capitalize everything and greentext it
THE_SOY="PUT_TEXT_HERE"
echo "$THE_SOY" | sed 's/^\(.*\)/>\U&/g' # or,
echo "$THE_SOY" | tr [:lower:] [:upper:] | sed 's/^/>/g'

# You-will-eat-the-bugsquoting
echo "SOYSPEAK_HERE" | sed 's/^/>YOU WILL /g'

# The above but more schwab-like and negative
echo "SOYSPEAK_HERE" | sed 's/^/>YOU WILL NOT /g'

# Post-schwabquoting
echo "SOYSPEAK_HERE" | sed 's/^/>AND YOU WILL BE /g'

# Add [[Artificial (You)s]] to every link-quote
sed -E 's/(>>[0-9]+)/\1 (You)/g' "OFFENDING_TEXT_FILE"

# Meme arrow test-to-speech (save this as greentext.sh and chmod +x greentext.sh)
#!/bin/sh
text=$(cat | sed 's/&/&/g; s/</\</g; s/>/\>/g')
checksum=$(echo -n "415${text}1mp35883747uetivb9tb8108wfj" | md5sum | cut -d' ' -f1)
curl -s "https://cache.oddcast.com/tts/gen.php" -d EID=4 -d LID=1 -d VID=5 -d "TXT=$text" -d IS_UTF8=1 -d EXT=mp3 -d FNAME= -d ACC=5883747 -d API= -d SESSION= -d "CS=$checksum" -d cache_flag=3
# echo "forgot your meme arrow?" | greentext.sh > greentext.mp3

How to install

So, you finally decided to make the switch from Bimbows or FagOS to GANOO/Loonix, huh? First of all, you’re already a certified soydev (And you'll secretly use the install.sh script, lie to people that you didn't. But deep inside of you, you know that you did, and you are only larping). Here’s a quick rundown of how to do it:

1. Choose a Distro.

Pick a distro from the Distros Section.

2. Download an ISO from some shady mirror that definitely isn’t compromised.

Protip: Always download from the most obscure third-party link you can find on some Russian forum. Bonus points if it’s a torrent seeded by one guy. (Definitely do NOT hash it)

(download it from its website retard)

3. "Burn" it to a USB drive using a tool that’s definitely not going to fail halfway through.

On Windows, you’ll probably use Rufus or Balena etcher. On Linux, you’ll feel superior because you used dd to nuke your data partition instead of the USB.

4. Boot into the installer and realize your Wi-Fi card isn’t supported.

Time to plug in that 30-meter Ethernet cable because (You) are too dumb to install the drivers, though it's not required most of the time as most distros have a convenient little toggle to install them. Be aware though that in recent times a troon commit to the MOTHERFUCKING KERNEL has broken the installation of proprietary Broadcom drivers on Ubuntu-based distros, with the fix being installing the system WITHOUT them, and then after this, add the [version name]-proposed repository, and use apt with a specific parameter to install the driver from there. Be aware that it might fail sporadically, or at least so it did for me.

5. Partition your disk like an absolute madman.

Create 5 different partitions for /boot, /home, /, /swap, and the obligatory /useless just because someone on /g/ told you to. Or just nuke your entire hard drive, who the hell cares.

(Optional) Set up LUKS

Set up Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS), which is a disk encryption for encrypting your device, since you're a disgusting pedo freak with 5 TB of 'p. Some installers offer it, so you don't have to brick your drive. Then, you can forget the password one day and lose all of your data.

6. Install a minimalist desktop environment to save RAM.

Spend the next week configuring i3 or AwesomeWM just to realize you hate tiling WMs and switch to KDE or GNOME anyway.

7. Realize your graphics drivers aren’t working.

Enter the eternal struggle of fighting with NVIDIA’s proprietary blobs versus the open-source drivers that make your GPU run like a potato. If you're not a glowie troon you should use AMD so you don't have to deal with this because they are natively compliant with all of the phoney-baloney graphics BS on Linux.

8. Finally get everything set up and realize you miss Photoshop.

Congrats! You’re now officially a Linux user. Enjoy drawing circles in Krita while secretly dual-booting into Windows or using a VM for anything that actually needs to work.

Alternative Installation Methods

• Virtual Machines: So you can pretend to be a 1337 381N H4X0r without touching your main OS. Will run like shit though, unless your host system is decently powerful.
• WSL: For when you want to LARP as a Linux user but can’t let go of Microsoft’s grip on your soul.
• Docker: So you can isolate your failures in neat little containers only to realize that you're actually running crippled Linux.

In the end, you'll probably just go back to Windows after realizing that ricing your desktop isn’t actually a productive use of your time. But hey, at least you learned how to format your hard drive — multiple times.

Trivia

• Micoalsoft has recently acknowledged the superiority of Linux and thus provided Windows Subsystem for Linux as a way to run the Linux kernel within Windows.
• PewDiePie has switched to Linux recently, therefore it is a Swedish win.
• The mascot of Linux is a fat penguin named Tux. Meanwhile Windows has cute tranime girls and Master Chief as mascots. Durgasoft lost.
• Some loonix fans are trannies who will call you a "kiddy" for using Debian- and (((Ubuntu)))-based distros. Just don't actually use Ubuntu because snaps are niggerAIDS; use Debian, Devuan or LMDE instead.

See also

• Windows
• TempleOS
• /g/ - Technology

Snopes

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