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To: Texas Fossil
> Better news. Use the real deal, without MS cobbled to. Linux simply works. Been using some flavor since 1994.

That's fine, as long as your business doesn't require any business applications that will only run on Windows (or Windows Server). A lot of businesses are forced to use Windows because they require Windows-only applications.

As a Linux user and System Admin, I can say that "Linux simply works" is mostly true. Having spent the last day in "Linux Library Dependency Hell" trying to resolve some old-vs-new app/library upgrades, I hesitate to make a 100% blanket approval... :-)

8 posted on 07/19/2017 8:57:30 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

Yep, library issues are a plague.

Some distributions worse than others.

The main GUI support forks are a lot of the problem.

I understand the issue of Linux compatible apps. In a large company it is a bigger issue.

There are a lot of “traps” sewn among some of the apps. I refuse to be in involved with that. Adobe is one of them. It is a question of motives and control of customers. That exclusive is something we all battle daily.


10 posted on 07/19/2017 9:36:08 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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