Posted on 07/12/2018 6:56:39 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Windows 10 is pre-loaded on a machine. The configuring is part of the install.
We have truly *pre-installed* Unix VM’s. All you do it bring them up and start working. You don’t have to do anything to make them work.
“Big software makers won’t write software for an architecture that changes on a frequent basis with no standards.”
I agree. Until they do, Linux is useless to me.
No one needs Windows gaming, it’s a choice, not a requirement for sustaining life.
Problem with Linux is that the rules of open source dictate that standards cannot be made and enforced. IOW, those standards, are not going to happen.
Android is an example of what happens when a company picks up Linux and does enforce standards. That turned out rather well, but Android OS doesn’t have every random programmer who had an idea pop into his brain able to change the OS with his own updates.
Linux is just too fragmented to be used in a desktop OS capacity. As a server, some of the enterprise products like Red Hat are pretty slick...but you’ll note that that is another situation where someone picked up Linux and enforced some standards.
Virtually every distribution of Linux pulls its’ baseline kernel source code from Redhat SE Linux which was sponsored and created and continues to be sponsored and supported by the National Security Agency.
I retired after 33 years in the IT business. I refused to work with Microsoft the entire time. I worked on every flavour of UNIX (including Linux). I retired at the age of 57.
Every shop that I worked in that used Microsoft on the back-end failed. The only people who used Microsoft on the Desktop were people who could accomplish their jobs with COTS ( Commercial off The Shelf) software that had little to no complexity. Every attempt to use Microsoft for projects of substance failed.
I could go on and on about the Governments POSIX mandate and its’ influence ( all bad ) on the course of the computer industry, but I won’t because opinions are like (A) holes. Everyone has one and they all stink. I’m gonna go stun my beeber, shoot a moose and check back in after I take a shower. ;)
Interesting point. I used to be a UNIX admin back in the day and always thought of the kernel as being the OS. For a while all we had was the command line interface. Then we got Motif and Xwindows. I never considered that as part of the OS. I always just thought of that as a GUI to the OS.
Windows seems to have clouded all this. By calling their Windows system as OS they expanded the definition of OS. Now it was no longer just about supporting the basic operations and maintenance of the computer. Now the OS included all of the interfaces to the peripherals and to the user. I believe they even put File Explorer at the core of their OS even though that's really just a GUI file picking tool. Then they were even going to put Internet Explorer at the core of their OS. Thank heavens they were prevented from doing that or the hackers would be ruling the world as we speak.
You say kernel, I say OS. You say OS, I say OS plus GUI.
Maybe it would have worked out better for everyone if each computer came pre-installed with and optimized OS (you say kernel) and customers chose their own preferred GUI.
Oh wait GUI was UI and is now UE.
I can't keep up.
I suppose I wrote the post in a confusing way that allowed it to be misinterpreted. The laptop has no difficulties running Windows and performs very well in every way. I have been running computers with Radeon Graphics cards for nearly 20 years and have never felt that they have “poor driver support and second rate hardware”. If they did I assume that this line of products would not have survived for as long as they have.
Many Radeon products do have Linux support, but no one that I am aware of has managed to get Linux builds fully functional on my newest laptop. At some point someone probably will. I would actually be happy to set up a fully functional Windows 7 build dual booting on it.
I misunderstood then.
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I agree with you that in general NVidia video cards have better support than Radeon. This applies to both gaming and the 3-D design applications that I use. As an example... if you look over the following chart less than half of the ATI cards listed are supported by autodesk software but nearly all of the NVidia cards are supported: http://download.autodesk.com/us/revit/revit_graphics_hardware_-_graphics_hardware_list_final.html
I forgot to mention that the “customers” are lazy. And kind of stupid, too.
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