None of my high end stuff works on Linux so it is little more than a novelty I keep on an old laptop. I’m getting mighty sick of windows 10 and MS. So very sick of them. Took me a full day to repair when their forced update completely bricked my computer.
Shameful what google and others are doing with a free OS, stealing people's data, tracking them, spying on them
Started using Slackware in ‘97. Made the switch to Ubuntu just a few years ago. No regrets.
Here’s my little Linux celebration story...
I was searching for something out in the shop and stumbled uppon two huge boxes of 3 1/4” floppy disks. I thought I had jettisoned those years ago!
I intended to toss them out with the trash but needed to check them first for stray bits of personal data. But how would I access them - none of my computers sports a floppy drive!
Then I remembered a Samsung USB external drive that I used to use when I was working. I plugged it in and it made the familiar chunka-chunka sounds but Windows threw an error about drivers. I tried to do a driver update but Win 10 wanted to update all my software (and I wasn’t interested in that). So I searched the web for drivers and came up empty handed.
Then I remembered the Linux Mint laptop I had been testing. I booted it and plugged in the drive. I sorted itself in very short order and presented me with an icon showing the correct model. I was able to sort through the hundreds of disks and even discovered a couple of disks that had personal stuff on them. Most of the disks were packaged software from Microsoft (when I worked there in the 90’s)
Anybody need a copy of Windows NT Server 3.51? Still in shrink-wrap!
I’ve been happy with Linux Mint for many years now.
I have a dual boot system Linux Mint / Win10 just so I can run some video editing software that only runs on Windows or Mac but I hardly ever boot into Windows. I find I can do most editing with Shotcut, a free opensource editing program.
The computer runs much faster on Linux and rarely needs a reboot. Usually only after a kernel update. Long live Linux!
Right on, Thank you Linus Benedict Torvalds!
Back in 1993, I worked on Santa Cruz Operations Unix and Xenix. I used to install them on servers and connect them up to Computone multi-port serial boards with Wyse 50/60 dumb terminals, so that doctor offices would use centralized medical charts/records and electronic (over 9600 dial-in modem) billing for Medicare, Medicaid, and Blue Cross/Blue Sheild.
Hadn’t heard of Linux for another 5 years after that, IIRC.
You can download it and put it on a USB drive and start it from there to try out.
I have Linux Cinnamon in a Oracle VirtualPC window in my Windows 7 desktop.
Free OS and free virtualpc program.
https://linuxmint.com/screenshots.php
Linux is very familiar and does not need much learning to get up to speed. Linux needs to stop being nerdy.
The high point of my -- and my "network mouse's" -- Linux experience with an early Ubuntu release.
it's gotten a lot better since then