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.
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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!
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.
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?
In the real world, Laptops rule
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\___)=(___/I have a similar background as the author with OS starting with CP/M, MSDOS, DRDOS etc. I tried Fedora and then Red Hat, dual booted up through current Ubuntu. Windows 10 works fine and has recognized every device, old and new that I have plugged into it.
While I have no issues with running Linux, I don’t find it to be better than Windows 10. The last version of Windows that I bought was Windows 7 that came with a Dell computer I bought when Win 7 was brand new, my cost for Windows software is the same as Linux. I have skipped every other version of Windows since Win 98. I will skip Windows 11 and wait for the finished version, probably Windows 12.
The article did, however convince me to replace my current Ubuntu with Mint. I’ll miss Gnome Mahjong but I can always revert to my Windows 7 version.
"Adobe Photoshop"
Yeah - my first programming job was writing Z80 assembly language.
Those were the days (I started in 1984).