Posted on 04/17/2022 10:59:50 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Thanks to Dayglored for the link to the article!
Because you don’t have to donate your money to the likes of Bill Gates or Tim Cook.
ANYTHING is better then that.
I work almost exclusively in a Linux desktop environment every workday, and it's great.
Ubuntu 20.04, augmented with classic Gnome and the Flashback/MetaCity packages.
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Up until recently, various flavors of Linus had trouble with standard browser videos.
Mint 18 improved on that, but there were still problems with some videos. Mint 19 made better stride and Mint 20 seems to have eliminated the problem.
My cable co internet app for TV still does not support Linux, even though it does support android products.
Since I am retired, I do not do much heavy processing. Whenever a significant task comes along, I usually load up Word 97 or Excel 97 or Publisher 98 or the appropriate software in Windows and get the job done.
I recently upgraded to Win10 about 6 months ago. I still prefer Win7, but have found Win10 tolerable. Neither my Win10 desktop and tablet support Win11, and I don’t intend to upgrade until my Win10s die.
I’ve run a Linux desktop (KDE for me) from 2000 on - it works. They are not trying to sell you stuff or sell your info.
I also maintain several Linux machines - takes very little time to do the security updates - the one Windoze machine takes more time than all the Linux machines combined.
Certain folks at 3 Ltr agencies have pushed ‘secure boot’ - it is the opposite of what it sounds like - any machine connected to the internet is simple not secure.
Does this guy ever do any work? Or does he just load and configure operating systems all day?
But I have some spare parts lying around - so it is now
time to cobble together a daily-use Mint machine. (Why not, eh?)
The IPAD doesn't do everything, and I'm sick of the
perpetual Windows 10 McCafee fake virus attack warning
fishing malware.
And by the way - I taught my 80 year old Dad how to use
OS/2 Warp Server for E-Business (WSEB - OS/2 version 4),
and then Windows 7. If he could do it, anybody can.
He was TOTALLY intimidated at first - but then he became a
Web surfing, emailing DEMON. LOL.
God rest his soul.
HAPPY EASTER, DAD!
[[Flashback/MetaCity packages]]
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I use my systems for the apps, not for the desktops. And Linux just doesn’t have the depth that Windows does or some of the big name ones ported.
Like a 40 year old concert pianist who can finally play Chopin with the proper inflections telling a 9 year old “it’s easy”.
I earned a Computer Science degree from a University in Seattle.
I was offered a job at Microsoft. I got better grades than the guys that went to work for Microsoft. I stayed at Boeing and did real-time software and electronics design. I did not get as rich but I had happier customers.
All 6 of my computers dual boot with Linux as the default.
I retired at age 55.
Gobbledygook, technobabel, or basically ls -lt, or ls -lt Not?
Ok so for CAD, SPICE, board layout, etc apps, which of those run on Linux and not Windows?
Linux Mint Cinnamon edition for the win.
I’m running Kubuntu 20.04 with the Plasma desktop on an 8 year old Thinkpad W530 and it’s the fastest PC I’ve ever used. For kicks, I do a 5 second countdown when shutting down. I never make it to zero and that’s right after having shut down 2 browsers and a handful of programs right before shutting down Kubuntu.
Several years ago, Plasma was buggy but they got it all straightened out.
Only time I hit the command line is when I want to add a software repository specific to a program so that I can install said program. It’s all copy and paste from a website to the terminal. I’ve never had an issue installing 3rd party, free software with Linux because the code is always Open Source. I don’t know what the code says but other people do.
I remember trying to get freeware for Windows. The malware/adware it came with was also free and usually took over the browser completely. Once upon a time, download.com was fairly trustworthy but eventually, half of what they had was malware. I became fairly expert at removing malware.
The alternative was spending $20, $50, $200 for each piece of software, on top of paying for windows.
“Let’s Go Windows.”
You've been using the wrong browsers. I haven't owned a television since 2008 and all the TV I've watched at home since then I watched online and in a browser, usually Tor/Firefox browser, on Linux Mint.
The single biggest reason people won't try Linux is fear, and they're afraid of it because of anachronisms, misrepresentations and outright lies that told about it. I sincerely believe that if you went to a desert island where no one had ever seen a PC before and gave half the residents Windows 11 PCs and the other half PCs with Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon, the Linux group would become proficient sooner. People cling so desperately to Windows mostly because it's the devil they know.
And a lot of people are afraid of command line. If you're one of them, I've got news for you. It's possible to do Linux and remain utterly command line-ignorant, but you leave a lot of potential untapped that best is accessed through command line interface. Then again, if you consider yourself a sophisticated Windows user and don't do CLI, you're only kidding yourself. You're only tapping a fraction of the potential of that OS.
The Linux crowd embraces the truth that command line makes computing better. Th Windows crowd still has their heads stuck in the sand.
Does this guy have ONE computer where it is some BINARY choice, Linux or Windows?
I have multiple servers running virtualization hypervisors hosting Linux. They do “server type stuff”. I use a primary desktop system running Windows. From there I can run Windows apps and/or Linux apps on the servers.
Computer Marxism as follows ... lol
“To each app according to it’s ability, to each app according to it’s need.”
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