Do you use GNU/Linux?

[Utopian]

Members here are very anti-capitalistic,so I'm wondering do you use gnu/linux?

What is GNU/Linux?
GNU/Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution.

So its FREE to download and use,FREE AS IN FREEDOM,Mostly NON-PROFIT OS.

Also check why is linux better?
www.whylinuxisbetter.net/

Most used linux os is:
www.ubuntu.com/

Also im writing an thread why you must use gnu/linux

[Rodger]

If it were a totally non-profit system there wouldn't be sense to develop it. They monitize it somehow.
Btw, I don't use it ))

[affirmedatheist]

If it were a totally non-profit system there wouldn't be sense to develop it. They monitize it somehow.
Btw, I don't use it ))

Most Linux-based companies do so by offering support contracts (Red Hat being an exception as in addition to general call support etc, their updates require you to pay - although their development branch, Fedora *is* free; besides which, the updates themselves are GPL from my understanding; This loophole is the reason CentOS exists).

Canonical is trying to spin *buntu as an app ecosystem (to offer paid apps on a store) but it doesn't seem to be taking.

It's hard to manage a fully paid distro (there are a few around, but they're relatively small) when Linux's code is FOSS (aka, if someone wants to, they can fork the code and develop the fork (and not even change the code).

EDIT: forgot to add, I'm typing this from a 64-bit LMDE install.

[nixfit]

I ran Linux on a number of my machines between 07 and 2010. I wholly believe that any given Linux distribution is superior for a host of reasons besides the obvious political ones for we anarchs inherent in supporting the open source software movement and philiosophy. The Linux vs. Windows debate has been raging for decades now, so I'm not going to add to it by going all Linux fanboy. I will say that I was forced to go back to use Windows for a couple of years and did not like it as much at all. Though I'm not going to claim that "Windows is shit" or anything, and certainly I never given Microsoft a dime of my money so I'm not about to talk shit on anybody who uses Windows via a freegan method. I'm just saying, why pirate a suboptimal operating system, or worse yet pay for it[i] when you can get LInux (or BSD for that matter) totally fucking free and clear.[/i]
Recently I was able to start using Linux again, and basically I'm stoked. I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's as idiot proof for average users as Windows or whatever Apple is hocking these days. It's one of those things that assumes the user has at least some degree of intellignece. This has led to the misperception that people who run it are "arrogant Linux elitists" or "geeks." Kind of the same shit as people believing the Crimethinc. collective are "elitist bourgoise anarchists" or whatever. I'm hardly a rocket scientist or "coder" or whatever. I didn't even own my own computer until 06, and prior to that I hardly ever used one since I was in prison for eight years. I'm just a crusty old punk guy.
Btw, my favorite Linux distribution is Slackware, though because the Glorious Anarchist Revolution has yet to sweep away the institution of wage slavery...I have to work all the fucking time and I don't have time yet to do an install and configuration of Slackware again. I figured I'd load something that just worked out of the box, so I slapped Linux Mint 13 KDE on instead. And yeah, amazingly the shit just worked fine from the door. So far I only had to iron out one hitch via the command line, and that took all of three minutes. So yeah, pretty much it just works.

[Lucien]

Running Linux since 1997 (RedHat5.0 Hurricane).
Glad to see it improved rapidly.
I'm not reaaly a pc-geek so the first years I wondered why the heel I ever switched to Linux... the early distributions were damn hard to work with in my opinion.
But on the other hand, I re-installed Windows several times and it took only a couple days for it to crash. So each time I went back to Linux.

Right now I'm running Kubuntu.