Posted on 07/12/2018 6:56:39 AM PDT by ShadowAce
1. Installation ... 2. Installation, ... 10. Installation.
Linux is the most popular os in the world.
Because of Android smartphones. Desktop not so much.
All of our Linux servers are fully integrated into AD.
Most linux distros are easier to install than Windows.
Add in VirtualBox for using favorite legacy Windoz Apps onn tgheir native best version of legacy Windows.
Interesting. I also work with multiple thousands of servers. I have never had a security issue.
RedHat expects YOU, the administrator, to secure the server.
They don’t know your org or needs.
Even if every Android phone disappeared today, Linux would still be the most widely used OS.
In my opinion, its the fact that there are countless number of distros which create market fragmentation and thus confusion. There is no such thing as Linux on the desk top. There is linux running ubuntu or fedora or whatever.
Microsoft has Windows. It may be home or enterprise but its the same OS, just with features turned off so it works the same.
Almost all of those other problems would be solved if there was a big enough market for software and hardware developers to give linux more attention but the market doesn't grow big enough because of the fragmentation and confusion.
Fear and Ignorance are the primary issues here.
Yep, and since the desktop is slowly disappearing no one much cares. Let Google make zero profit from Android and Chrome.
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In short, it doesn’t do what Windows does.
After decades of development.
It will always be a techie world, great (even superior) to Windows in the things that it does for interwebs and servers, but it has always been like a Caterpillar Tractor (Linux) when people want a Ford Truck (Windows) or a Range Rover (Apple/Mac)
It’s a fair and obviously well-informed column although he rationalizes nearly every shortcoming. ‘It’s good but...’
In my view Linux has always struggled a bit from a lack of a dominant player synonymous with the OS. Red Hat might be a real or perceived brand leader but while enthusiasts might enthuse about this or that distro it is, as the column suggests, absolutely bewildering to someone who might very well be interested in an secure, stable Windows alternative but who gets slammed with choices and vagaries as soon as they walk in the door.
Microsoft support is, in a word, abysmal. Like Apple, they save billions by essentially throwing support cases to the wolves - or, in this case, the other users. Incredibly, many Windows/Microsoft end users, MVPs or otherwise, are willing to help out - for free - and their help is almost always faster, more accurate and clearer than anything offered up by Microsoft employees (*wink wink*) who are, too often, non-native English speakers usually in India. Their ‘help’ is often a series of useless links, outdated information, attempts to fend off the query and general bureaucratic box-ticking uselessness. They simply don’t know their own product. However, because Windows is Microsoft and Microsoft is Windows at least there’s a single point of gathering for exchange of info (thousands of independent forums notwithstanding).
The Linux community are knowledgeable to a fault but they are also often prickly, impatient and demanding bordering on hostile. Requests for layman-caliber information are often greeted with the equivalent of STFU Noob or a flood of indecipherable jargon. Linux users are strong advocates for their OS but their manners are often lacking.
Linux is the same--all those distros use basically the same kernel.
The differences are what the distro developers put into each distro. Those are the "features" that are being turned off or on. ne distro may use Gnome, and another may use KDE. Same OS underneath, but different desktops, with different features. The difference is that the end user *can* install whatever desktop or feature s/he wants, without being dependent on the distributor.
The biggest difference (as I see it) is that most end users do not want the responsibility of freedom. They'd rather be told how to configure their machine and then bend to how the computer works, rather than the other way around.
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