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Is openBSD any better?

>>297
>Literally has a demon as their logo

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>>298
I thought it was a puffer fish.

>>299
I've always seen openbsd associated with an imp (demon)

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>>300
That's freebsd

>>296 (OP) 
>t newfag that has never used linux
just accept that it's not for you anmd

>>296 (OP) 
I was having problems with a $10,000 nvidia card for AI. I switched to Endeavour OS with open source nvidia drivers, and that worked. Maybe it will work for you. It's probably not the most secure Linux, but it's linux so it's definitely better than Windows.

It's only garbage if your mind is controlled by video games and netflix oppo and company. Otherwise everything is better and the acculturation process is fairly simple because everything has a gui now

>muh heckin mmo fps!
Guy.

LMDE, Debian, Fedora are quite beginner friendly.

>>302
youre making assumptions now
>>305
youre sucking yourself off
>>307
this is another thing, all these distros are like astrology signs for soys, and unimportant soys who just need to do web browsing because that about the only thing all distros can do.

Isnt nvidia in the process of open sourcing their drivers? I heard awhile back they open sourced a part of them.
I used endeavour OS not long ago and everything worked well but i have an amd gpu.

>>296 (OP) 
<I am a homosexual faggot with skill issues, please rape my face
Works on my machine
>steam games work better on linux, especially if you don't have a defective gpu
>Word is annoying to use on Windows and libreoffice is better
>photoshop is for homosexual faggits who don't know how to use a camera
>GIMP works pretty well for making memes
>KDE plasma works well and doesn't look gay
>I can even watch movies in terminal if I wanted to be even more of a fucking sperg than I already am

>>307
I agree, Debian with xfeces or kde is based and very easy to use, has all the features and eye candy most people would ever want. More visually appealing and user friendly than MacOS or pajeetbloat 11, anyone who argues otherwise simply isn't huWhite.

>>307
For n00bs who want to test-drive Linux I normally recommend Mint.
>>315
Yes and no. The line between drivers and firmware has become very blurred. nVidia can announce "open source drivers" but there's all manner of interesting stuff going on--all manner of stuff that fifteen or twenty years ago you would have thought of as functions of the driver--that's hidden in the firmware, and that part is most definitely not open source. It's non-trivial even to get a glimpse of it.  Muh nVidia open source is nothing of the kind.

I say this as someone who tinkers with AI stuff--image generation, mostly--as a hobby. I use an nVidia GPU.  I made that choice because I learned that getting something like Stable Diffusion working with AMD is an ordeal and compared to running it on nVidia it's always going to be crippled and lobotomized.  I do not deceive myself into thinking that muh open source drivers mean there could not possibly be any backdoors or "user telemetry" hidden away in the firmware. I conduct my experiments cautiously and circumspectly.

>>316
your talking like you weren’t greeted with a black screen when first time booting with a nvidia graphics card. Works fine if you have a lenovo craptop with integrated graphics sure.

>>296 (OP) 
what is your usecase?
>>318
this issue is nonexistent today. the closed source and open source drivers both work.

>>318
you obviously haven't even used modern linux

>>318
yes, my AMD chinkpad works great desu fam. get good mountain jew faggot

>>319
Tried 5 different OS's with devices that use Nvidia or AMD graphics. Almost none of them worked, those that did still had multiple faults like what I listed above (dead audio because no drivers, hdmi out doesnt work, mouse doesnt work without plug in mouse, brightness adjustment doesnt work ETC). Maybe my hardware is a piece of shit but I would have really expected to get further than just a black screen than a cursor.
>work on them stupid
Hard when my only source for info is fking forums.

>>324
which device brand(s) were you using? I've rarely had issues with the Dell/Lenovo/HP and custom-built machines I've been using over the past few decades, albeit gaming didn't really start to work flawlessly until around 2020.

>>296 (OP) 
It's not garbage you're just a very incompetent midwit.

>>307
>Debian
>beginner friendly
editing the sources list file would filter at least 95% of humanity

give me a distro that you can run on 2GB RAM or less and delivers a silky smooth experience

>>570
>2GB ram
Why? Legitimately curious.

>>570
Alpine linux

>>571
Laptop from 2005 i just fixed

>>572
Will try, thanks

>>573
GL with your lappy fren

>>573
no problemo amigo

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>>573 reporting

i'm using linux lite, tried to lynxpost but it's not possible to fill the captcha without JS, don't mind the screenshot, 'tis but a jest

>>586
That looks sexy.