Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!
Posted on 04/28/2020 7:01:35 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Tech Ping
Hard to keep Linux contained. I favor the Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS distros myself. I find Microsoft’s interference with Linux a minor capitulation, as PLAN A was for everyone except a handful of Apple users to be on Microsoft Surface and Windows Mobile. I am more concerned about Google, and its strategy of making Android “FREE” to developers. Microsoft couldn’t let Google have that playground all to itself.
Thew Linux world is a lot more than Debian. Although I should note that Microsoft has an even closer relationship with SUSE.
Debian and its derivatives seem to dominate Linux these days. They don’t have to.
Git is evil.
But maybe that's just experience with Red Hat (and lack thereof with Debian).
It didn’t have to be.
Another thing this virus has revealed is that Bill Gates is just as much of an evil prick as Soros is.
I have been playing with mint is that hooked into Debian?
Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!
It's supposed to be pretty good, though I have not played around with it. Do you like it?
Gates seems to think he is smart enough to tell the world how to exist. Made a billionaire by selling flawed products since 1981.
Who's smarter--the vendor of the flawed product, or the buyer who has always *known* the product is flawed?
“At the moment Microsoft is monopolising Free/Open Source software using GitHub”
No it isn’t.
Github is a code storage service, plain and simple.
Microsoft/Github does not own the rights to code stored on Github.
Uploading code to Github does not make it Microsoft property. Nor does the code creator relinquish any rights by storing it on Github.
There are multiple competitors to Github such as Gitlab and Bitbucket (and I have used both of these services as part of commercial projects).
Plus, switching your codebase from one storage provider to another presents few barriers. Github does NOT have anywhere near a monopoly on git based storage systems.
I have not used it a lot but so far so good. The install ISO was smart enough to allow preserving the Win partition so at start you can choose either Win or Mint. What I don’t like is it defaults to Mint unless you are there to there to switch it
after start up. It’s a clean responsive interface. It was able to play nice with the wireless card and wifi printer. PC is a 3 year old Dell office laptop, printer is an HP laser so I would expect no issues.
Bill Gates hasn’t been in control of Microsoft for some time.
I’ve been using mint for several years. I just downloaded and installed mint cinnamon 19.3 onto a two year old computer and I was impressed. It makes 18.3 seem clunky in comparison. It booted up in seconds, was fast and responsive, contains upgraded and necessary features. It is very polished. Now I need to learn how to make a dedicated /home partition so I can move my stuff over and get rid of the old os on my own computer.
I do wish making that separate partition was a chouce in gparted.
I forgot to mention that the 2 yr old pc had an amd processor. Mint used to struggle with amd devices and drivers, but 19.3 did not.
I did have to make quite a few changes in bios set up so that the os could utilize eufi, but as long as you know which changes need to be made under whay confitions, its good. There’s plenty of documentation to assist.
So many people have been resistant to using linux because microsoft has been the default os for a long time. Pc’s are huilt to accomodate microsoft and acquiring information for drivers hasn’t exactly been forthcoming. With linux being the base os for android phones, doors opened to them. They aren’t a scriptkiddies dream anymore. They have to stroke a few egos along the way as a natural course of doing business. The death of Ian T. I think opened the door.
I’m liking Mint 19.2 - as far as it goes. My biggest issue is using it in a hybrid (Windoze) networked environment. Mint seems easier for configuring the cobbled up RDP applets and I’ve only crashed it once (so far).
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