hacking

[I_am_not_mafia]

I've been using Suse consistently since 2002. I just stick with what I know because installing an operating system and messing around with it doesn't actually interest me. I just want to get down to doing my own work instead.

I'm considering giving Gnome another try though instead of KDE. I always regret it when I install Suse with a different window manager and always end up re-installing it, but KDE's gone all Windows 10 and looks horrible.

I always have a dual boot system and am currently sticking with Windows 7 for that side of things. But I have hopes for SteamOS.

[Czechlervitz30]

does anyone here know anything about anti-viruses? hacking? or Program development? I am not sure that the Microsoft products are nearly as good as they used to be in the 1990's because they were modded to be superior than they are today. But today they are very generic, and close boxed, all the same, unmalleable and generally worthless.

The modded Microsoft Xp was a super computer.

I am curious about breaking into my Windows 10 and fixing this piece of turdling that rolled of the assembly line.

I find they come up with new computers way too fast. I used my grandfathers Windows 93 computer as a child. Then I used my parent's windows 98 and later the XP. As an adult I have only used Linux because of a good friend I met when I moved out. 

My sister uses Apple and my parents now have a Windows 8.1. I have used the Windows 8.1 when I visit my parents once a month or so. It seems functional. But they don't watch porn or download a thing for fear of viruses. Viruses such as trojan horses were always a concern with the windows computers I used. I don't hear about viruses on the Apple computers, and I have never had to scan for viruses on my Linux system.

I haven't used Windows 10 yet. I'm curious if they still use DOS. I used to love messing around with HTML commands in the web browser as well. I took a class in high school that taught us how to use HTML. I enjoyed it quite a bit. 

Did you ever get involved in packet wars with other users? I have two friends who loved to do that. I never got into it. But I had my interests elsewhere.

[pocaracas]

To paraphrase a professor I once had: you should make a Corel draw plugin to process data straight from SQL (and give you the plot you want, of course)

[Joods]

I wanted a man's computer to do man's things. And now I need 10 to do the man's things computers did in the 90's.

Well if you had a woman's computer, it would have all been done right the first time.

[LostLocke]

Nice, what distro do you use?

I have Linux Mint 14. I began with Ubuntu 10, I believe, back in 2009.

I have a laptop with Linux on it.
I tried Ubuntu but I could just not get into the GUI. Someone recommended I try Mint, and I now have Mint 18 on it. It's very comfortable for a long time Windows user.

[pocaracas]

LOL... the GUI is no reason not to stick with a particular Linux distro...
You can install and try different desktop managers, aka, GUIs.

[KevinM1]

I'm loving Manjaro. ~75%-80% of the performance of Arch, but with Mint-like stability. And a much, much better overall approach to both stability and security than Mint.

[Czechlervitz30]

I have Linux Mint 14. I began with Ubuntu 10, I believe, back in 2009.

I have a laptop with Linux on it.
I tried Ubuntu but I could just not get into the GUI. Someone recommended I try Mint, and I now have Mint 18 on it. It's very comfortable for a long time Windows user.  

Good I'm glad. I enjoy the terminal. there are good tutorials out there for you to learn to use it. I also like the GIMP 2.0 image editor. I don't know if Linux Mint 18 has it but, Mint 14 does have GIMP 2.0. I have made a lot of cool edited images of my own.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Well, my first personal computer was a rugged caveman of a Commodore C64. It did Manly Things like run flight simulators at agonizingly slow frame rates, after taking ten minutes to load them from floppy.

[Tiberius]

WHAT :S ?!? How.
Microsoft was compatible software with games. with Linux you needed dual Operating systems to use programs. meaning twice as much memory. when the Microsoft was already malleable. I didn't need a sand box. I wanted a man's computer to do man's things. And now I need 10 to do the man's things computers did in the 90's.

This thread was about hacking, not video gaming. If you want to video game, then sure, use Windows. If you want to hack, use Linux.

Dual operating systems doesn't mean twice as much memory. That's not how memory or dual operating systems work.

No way do you need 10 computers to do things computers did in the 90's. You can probably run all of the 90's programs on a smart phone these days, in terms of computing power, etc.

Besides, what's wrong with having 10 computers? I probably have more than that in my house, but they all do different jobs:

Xbox 360 + Xbox One for gaming
2 x Amazon Fire TV for streaming tv shows / movies
3 x raspberry pis for random small projects that don't need much computing power
2 x smart phones for portable computing needs
2 x MacBook Pros for work
1 x MacBook Pro for personal computing
2 x spare laptops in case something goes wrong with the other ones
1 x netbook, again for random projects
1 x iPad that my wife uses for watching stuff whilst running on the treadmill
1 x Kindle for reading books