is this a bad thing

i'm just imagining the fucking magic you could do if you got a better OS

Kagiyama wrote:i'm just imagining the fucking magic you could do if you got a better OS

even though it's a prebuilt dell?

Kghyilda wrote:

Kagiyama wrote:i'm just imagining the fucking magic you could do if you got a better OS

even though it's a prebuilt dell?

yes

What's mine like?

Magician wrote:What's mine like?

>61 degrees celsius
oh god what

Kghyilda wrote:

Magician wrote:What's mine like?

>61 degrees celsius
oh god what

It's 59 now.

Magician wrote:What's mine like?

OK for a laptop, shit for a tower

Kagiyama wrote:

Magician wrote:What's mine like?

OK for a laptop, shit for a tower

It's a laptop.

Kghyilda wrote:

Magician wrote:What's mine like?

>61 degrees celsius
oh god what

there was a guy on /v/ with ridiculously outdated hardware, he was getting around 103 C while running half life 2. shit was lol

Kagiyama wrote:

Kghyilda wrote:

Magician wrote:What's mine like?

>61 degrees celsius
oh god what

there was a guy on /v/ with ridiculously outdated hardware, he was getting around 103 C while running half life 2. shit was lol

isn't that like 180 degrees

Kghyilda wrote:

Kagiyama wrote:

Kghyilda wrote:

Magician wrote:What's mine like?

>61 degrees celsius
oh god what

there was a guy on /v/ with ridiculously outdated hardware, he was getting around 103 C while running half life 2. shit was lol

isn't that like 180 degrees

i think
he was using 10 years old hardware with windows 7 on aero glass and full settings and running a bunch of other cpu heavy shit, he was deliberately trying to break the record for world's hottest computer.

Kagiyama wrote:i think
he was using 10 years old hardware with windows 7 on aero glass and full settings and running a bunch of other cpu heavy shit, he was deliberately trying to break the record for world's hottest computer.

he should have used a men of war game
those things take up like 1GB RAM

Kghyilda wrote:

Kagiyama wrote:

Kghyilda wrote:

Magician wrote:What's mine like?

>61 degrees celsius
oh god what

there was a guy on /v/ with ridiculously outdated hardware, he was getting around 103 C while running half life 2. shit was lol

isn't that like 180 degrees

more like +220 degrees f
you might be able to fry an egg on that shit

spinnythings wrote:

Kghyilda wrote:

Kagiyama wrote:

Kghyilda wrote:

Magician wrote:What's mine like?

>61 degrees celsius
oh god what

there was a guy on /v/ with ridiculously outdated hardware, he was getting around 103 C while running half life 2. shit was lol

isn't that like 180 degrees

more like +220 degrees f
you might be able to fry an egg on that shit

oh yeah
it's 220
water boils at 100 C

Kghyilda wrote:

Kagiyama wrote:i think
he was using 10 years old hardware with windows 7 on aero glass and full settings and running a bunch of other cpu heavy shit, he was deliberately trying to break the record for world's hottest computer.

he should have used a men of war game
those things take up like 1GB RAM

i should try

also any laptop user should be using gnu/linux, it does everything that laptops are designed to do with more efficiency than windows or macintosh as well as having far better ram allocation, which most laptops would need.

Kagiyama wrote:

Kghyilda wrote:

Kagiyama wrote:i think
he was using 10 years old hardware with windows 7 on aero glass and full settings and running a bunch of other cpu heavy shit, he was deliberately trying to break the record for world's hottest computer.

he should have used a men of war game
those things take up like 1GB RAM

i should try

also any laptop user should be using gnu/linux, it does everything that laptops are designed to do with more efficiency than windows or macintosh as well as having far better ram allocation, which most laptops would need.

and actually
that's on normal settings

Kagiyama wrote:

Kghyilda wrote:

Kagiyama wrote:i think
he was using 10 years old hardware with windows 7 on aero glass and full settings and running a bunch of other cpu heavy shit, he was deliberately trying to break the record for world's hottest computer.

he should have used a men of war game
those things take up like 1GB RAM

i should try

also any laptop user should be using gnu/linux, it does everything that laptops are designed to do with more efficiency than windows or macintosh as well as having far better ram allocation, which most laptops would need.

I'm too used to windows, personally.

Magician wrote:

Kagiyama wrote:

Kghyilda wrote:

Kagiyama wrote:i think
he was using 10 years old hardware with windows 7 on aero glass and full settings and running a bunch of other cpu heavy shit, he was deliberately trying to break the record for world's hottest computer.

he should have used a men of war game
those things take up like 1GB RAM

i should try

also any laptop user should be using gnu/linux, it does everything that laptops are designed to do with more efficiency than windows or macintosh as well as having far better ram allocation, which most laptops would need.

I'm too used to windows, personally.

then try linux mint/xubuntu, they're both very similar to windows but do linux-y things

Kagiyama wrote:

Magician wrote:

Kagiyama wrote:

Kghyilda wrote:
he should have used a men of war game
those things take up like 1GB RAM

i should try

also any laptop user should be using gnu/linux, it does everything that laptops are designed to do with more efficiency than windows or macintosh as well as having far better ram allocation, which most laptops would need.

I'm too used to windows, personally.

then try linux mint/xubuntu, they're both very similar to windows but do linux-y things

I was planning on switching to Linux when I got around to getting a proper computer rather than a laptop so the experience might be good so could you drop a link to a download of gnu/linux?

Magician wrote:

Kagiyama wrote:

Magician wrote:

Kagiyama wrote:i should try

also any laptop user should be using gnu/linux, it does everything that laptops are designed to do with more efficiency than windows or macintosh as well as having far better ram allocation, which most laptops would need.

I'm too used to windows, personally.

then try linux mint/xubuntu, they're both very similar to windows but do linux-y things

I was planning on switching to Linux when I got around to getting a proper computer rather than a laptop so the experience might be good so could you drop a link to a download of gnu/linux?

There isn't a single download link to gnu/linux, it's spread across a whole bunch of distributions which all look and feel different. here's a few:

Ubuntu: most popular and user friendly, has a really weird UI though. http://www.ubuntu.com
Xubuntu: Ubuntu with the XFCE interface xubuntu.org
Linux Mint: Ubuntu's kid brother, as easy to use as ubuntu and can do a little bit more http://linuxmint.com/
Fedora: features bleeding edge technology, ie full of software that's still in beta stages http://fedoraproject.org/
Debian: i guess you could call it the 'basic linux distribution', respectable and usable http://www.debian.org
crunchbang: pretty much Mint for hipsters http://crunchbanglinux.org/
openSUSE: see debian's description, http://www.opensuse.org/en/

>avoid Arch Linux, it overly complicates things to try and appear h4xx0r-esque
>use the Terminal when you can, it's the best way to figure out the structure of the GNU system so that you can be more productive with use
>linux is the kernel, GNU is the actual operating system. the kernel is what processes applications, RAM et cetera, to my understanding
>"sudo apt-get install [name]" to install software from the terminal
>"apt-cache search [name]" to search software, "apt-cache show [name]" to get the software's description
>regularly run "sudo apt-get update" and "sudo apt-get upgrade"
>"cd ~" to change your command line's directory to your home folder
>"su" to make your command line have superuser privileges
>install Nethack, provides endless fun and can be run from the actual GNU shell so even if your computer were to break down and die you'd still have forms of entertainment on hand
>same goes for Lynx, which is an internet browser that runs from the shell

Thank you.

Holy fuck I have no idea what I'm doing.

Magician wrote:Holy fuck I have no idea what I'm doing.

Which one did you choose?

also in case you didn't know, you take the downloaded .iso file, burn it onto a CD (use Astroburn etc), restart your computer and launch the startup menu (usually opens when you press Esc or F12 on the first few seconds of starting up) and boot from the CD.

Kagiyama wrote:

Magician wrote:Holy fuck I have no idea what I'm doing.

Which one did you choose?

Ubuntu.
It felt very clunky.

Kagiyama wrote:
also in case you didn't know, you take the downloaded .iso file, burn it onto a CD (use Astroburn etc), restart your computer and launch the startup menu (usually opens when you press Esc or F12 on the first few seconds of starting up) and boot from the CD.

I just downloaded it straight onto the PC.
Seemed to work fine, computer asks me which OS I want to run when I start it up.