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From Encyclopedia Dramatica

4chan's technology board, /g/, has increasingly become one of the more frequented boards, with /b/ and /v/ becoming more mountainous piles of shit that somehow manages to digest itself into shit^2. It used to be one of the more serious boards on the site but has started to decay into a state of constant flamewarfare and OS dick waving contests, caused mostly by /b/tards and /v/irgins seeking refuge from moot's faggotry.

1 /g/ culture
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[edit] /g/ culture

If you haven't guessed yet, the main userbase that inhabits /g/ are hyper-elitist angry nerds. Remember that permavirgin kid in highschool who would never shut up about his latest linux distribution, or how much he overclocked his processor, or tell you how much he hates Microsoft and spells it with a Micro$oft? Now imagine a place where all those angsty kids meet with anonymity, and BAM! you have /g/: an Internet tough guy super-nerd forum.

[edit] OS wars

The most common types of threads that occur on /g/ are constant battles among the 3 OS groups:

Mac OSX users: Annoying cult-like artfags who hail Steve Jobs, and don't know any computer skills other than drag and drop. Would gladly take out a second mortgage on their house for the next mac.
Windows users: Constantly defending their buggy spyware ridden OS by claiming that "I never get any viruses, spyware malware, bugs or anything" which is as ridiculous a statement as saying you have never been Rickrolled or lost the game.
Linux users: Saying that Mac and Windows users are all n00bs who don't know how to use a REAL OS. These computer experts will use the most obscure linux distribution built from scratch on notepad, not because it will do them any good but rather because its so ass-backwards to use; therefore making them HARD CORE.
BSD users: Nobody actually uses BSD; users of all OSs just like to spam it to troll everybody else and watch the ensuing RAGE.
Plan9 users: Nobody pays attention to Plan9 users. They can be seen trying to convince any one who doesn't use plan9 to switch so they can take advantage of "that cool networking thing."

[edit] Headphones

/g/eeks like to think they're audiophiles by saying which low-cost headphone sounds the best, i.e. if you don't get PortaPros you're a faggot. What they don't know is if they didnt' spend so much money on their computers they could have a real sound system and not resort to cheap $30 headphones. This argument is so frequent that it has been suggested that /g/ be renamed to /headphones/.

[edit] Desktop Threads

/g/'s only real cancer. It mainly consists of neckbeards, 13 year olds, and raging faggots posting their latest Blink-182 wallpapers and crappy rainmeter skins. It inevitably descends into an OS/application flamewar (LAAAAAWL U UZE FURRYFOX (LOLOLOLO) WUT A FAG I UZE SAFIREY CUZ IT IZ RLY FAST AND SAEF)