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Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop
The Register ^ | 10 August 2022 | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Posted on 08/10/2022 11:22:47 AM PDT by ShadowAce

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To: ShadowAce

In 2013 my Windows machine worked quite well.

Microsoft network programmers are like Biden administration workers, the more they work, the more of a mess they make.

A PC should never lock up due to being on a network. The start menu button, the x (close the program/window) controls, and the window slider bars should always be responsive. The Notepad and Word programs should not be stalled by network access and by updating.


21 posted on 08/10/2022 12:12:22 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: MichaelRDanger
I've been using various flavors of Ubuntu for 10 years. The only time I use windows is for a couple of auto repair software apps, one that runs my scan tool and one that has auto repair info. 99.99% of the time, I run Ubuntu, currently Kubuntu.

Office docs, any graphics operation, play/edit/create any media file, surf the web, download videos from hundreds of different websites including youtube, bitchute, rumble and most any video on a web page, email clients, unit conversion, Spotify app, VPN app, file archive of any type - not just zip, torrent client, Nextcloud desktop client, ebook library and editor, burn USB thumb drives and optical discs, full blown accounting app, screenshot tool with instant upload to imgur with url auto-copied to my clipboard. Haven't paid a dime for an OS or software in that same 10 years.

Specialized business apps like my auto repair stuff is not available but for a personal desktop, general purpose business desktop/client, it works fine. Microsoft locked up the rare use software over the decades because Gates cornered the OS market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters

22 posted on 08/10/2022 12:14:52 PM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: ShadowAce

Ha ha. They’ve been saying this for decades. And the few that tried it typically go back to windows.


23 posted on 08/10/2022 12:14:56 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: so_real

I don’t think anything on the Internet is secure, but google now tracks me surprisingly well.

I don’t have to explicitly search for something for google to know what I’m trying to do.


24 posted on 08/10/2022 12:15:17 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: ShadowAce

To limit ransomware dangers, drives that can be written to and read from should be developed that don’t allow erasing.

These would permit databases to be rebuilt.


25 posted on 08/10/2022 12:20:30 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

Looks like my Kubuntu needs and update. (2:20pm central) - it’s a big one - 442mb

Be right back


26 posted on 08/10/2022 12:21:19 PM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: ShadowAce

One of the problems with modern computers is that their memory can be used for both data and programs, permitting programs to be easily corrupted.


27 posted on 08/10/2022 12:24:06 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Terry L Smith
Check out Ventoy to test drive Linux from a USB drive. No DVD required. :)
28 posted on 08/10/2022 12:24:38 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: Pollard

“442mb”

Back in the old days it would take me about a year to write 64K worth of code.


29 posted on 08/10/2022 12:26:18 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

Update done in 7 minutes with a few minutes being download time on my DLS internet, no closing down programs, no restart.


30 posted on 08/10/2022 12:28:33 PM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: Pollard

These days, Linux can even upgrade the running kernel without a reboot/restart.


31 posted on 08/10/2022 12:29:51 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: ShadowAce

My Chromebook has a very small screen.

I prefer my Windows machine for its larger screen size.

I’m thinking of buying a large screen Chromebook. I’ll just hate owning so many computer devices.

The Ipad is of a small size with a good screen. Unfortunately, Apple has its own way of doing things, one that I don’t seem to be able to just guess at. By the mid-1980s, I thought menu-driven programs were thought to be the way to go.


32 posted on 08/10/2022 12:32:38 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: ShadowAce

It did tell me I need to update to complete the process but I can do that whenever, not a forced 30 minute thing like Win 10.


33 posted on 08/10/2022 12:33:27 PM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: Brian Griffin
I prefer my Windows machine for its larger screen size.

My linux laptop has a 17" screen, but a lot of my work is on my external 38" monitor that I plug into the DisplayPort.

34 posted on 08/10/2022 12:34:33 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: ShadowAce

I worked for a utility company for the last fifteen years of my IT career.

The company hired an ex Amazon IT exec as their Director of Desktop IT Services. He told me that Amazon is a huge Linux shop and expressed interest in introducing Linus into our environment (we were a predominantly Windows shop). But he couldn’t get any traction - nobody wanted to be bothered.

He asked me it I was interested in taking on a project and I agreed to explore incorporating the Foghat Imaging solution into computer deployment infrastructure. I did my research, requisitioned surplus servers, and built out the test system. I devised a test image using Ubuntu and built a driver utility library to accommodate dropping my image to a variety of desktop and laptop hardware.

I could remotely image a desktop to my Ubuntu image - as long as the target was in the same subnet as the imaging server. So I needed permission from Network Services to extend my test server to other subnets in order to complete my test project. No go. They refused access because I wasn’t a member of the Network Services team, nor was I anyone of sufficient stature in IT to warrant any special dispensation.

My director did what he could to intervene but even he didn’t rank high enough to break the barriers of the good ol boys club.

I presented my project (such as it was), my director was suitably impressed as he was suitably annoyed. All the gear was broken down and returned to stock. And that was the closest to a hybrid Windows/Linux shop they ever came.


35 posted on 08/10/2022 12:44:24 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: ShadowAce

That’s what my husband did. Now we’re looking at mini desktops and will do the same thing.


36 posted on 08/10/2022 12:44:56 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: so_real

Looked back through my old CDs ... actually started on Mint in 2012. That's a decade of Linux on the desktop. Hasn't always been easy. There have been a couple set backs. But all in all I am so much more comfortable in Linux. I've got browser choices, document editor choices, email client choice, instant messenger choices, programmer IDE choices, ssh terminal choices, etc, etc, etc. And, at least the ones I use, work quite well. I recommend everyone spin up a Mate or Cinnamon desktop on Devuan or Mint. You'll be surprised how good it is.


37 posted on 08/10/2022 12:45:45 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: MichaelRDanger

Just virtualize windows. On my deb home server with multiple passthoughs I can game locally, and do rendering/cad remotely when latency isn’t an issue. On a T480 with 28 hours of screen time thanks to Arch I can access 1kw worth of processing power and never worry about the battery, or my processes ending when I shut it down.


38 posted on 08/10/2022 12:56:56 PM PDT by bak3r
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To: ShadowAce

FYI- on the Microsoft licensing side (which you need courses to understand their convolution) they have now intertwined Enterprise licensing with their M365 products as a package to keep you locked in their ecosystem.
An example would be my company purchased E3 licenses for standard office workers and the Windows 10 Enterprise desktop license is rolled into it with their 365 (Sharepoint department portals, Teams, power automate stuff, etc).
The server side is just as bad, but at least you have the option of running Linux with Azure integration.


39 posted on 08/10/2022 1:00:18 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: ShadowAce

Linux: Those Windows 11 Laptops are nothing more than bloatware tracking lollipops.

I often times use a text editor offline to write posts for online commenting. That is the case here. What is also the case is that I am doing this in LibreOffice. Not much you can do in Microsoft Word that can’t be done with the free Libre that comes with Linux/Ubuntu.

Perhaps ten years ago I began to realize that Billy Boy Gates was going to mess up with windows. And he did. Repeatedly. It has never been secure. Even with adding Anti Malware; Anti Spyware; AntiVirus; Anti this and that.
Even Cleaners to keep the desktop environment clean and running well. Windows simply messed up.

Then I discovered Linux around the Windows xp time and experimented with it. At that point it was not as usable for the average person, and needed to have a lot of bug fixes.

Still it worked and what was best was the price. It was indeed free, and it continues to be so, and there is a program out there for nearly every one of those available for the windows systems today. In fact some of the free ones like Gimp for images is pretty darn good. Linux/Ubuntu much improved.

When I went with Windows ten I didn’t want to. But because I had a treasure trove of Windows compatible only programs I needed and paid a ton of money for, I didn’t make the switch.
[I knew at some point..probably from Win10 to 11 they would force me to switch.] So I began some program migration.

I was ready when my i5 laptop told me Bill Gates would not let me use it for win 11. [guess he thought I had stupid written all over me] [[he doesn’t know me, but I know him] ]
What I had written all over me was Linux Distro. Downloaded and ready for the switch.
I was running three systems, all Win 10. Two of them i3 desktops, an i5 desktop and an i5 Laptop. Not a single one of which according to Bill was compatible with win 11. Further my wife had a nice laptop not compatible. If ever I was going to do it, now was the time for the switch.
My wife went ahead and bought the Win 11 super tracking laptop lollipop, and says she loves it. I personally do not like any tracking or adds or anything else that is billy gatey oriented. Sooo…

I copied all my files to separate hard drives, bought several new Solid state drives for my systems, downloaded the latest 22.04 distro and loaded it onto a new USB stick.
[kept the old Hds for the files just in case] And for less than 60 bucks created three new Ubuntu systems that were screaming fast.
I have everything on my new systems I had on my old Windows ones. I knew this day was coming and I was prepared for it having saved thousands of files over the years in formats that I knew Ubuntu could handle in their various free programs. I even had an Ubuntu loaded computer with an older distro to test some programs and files with.
As the OP is trying to say folks. Business or Personal. If you need to be secure, and you do not want everyone knowing what you do, where you go, or what you buy online.
Linux is your baby. All those crazy windows programs running in the background? Not now. Its even worse with windows 11.
The latest Linux for me is Ubuntu 20.04 which is free and comes with 5 years of support, which you probably won’t need. But best off all, even beyond the free part is the fact that if you need to, LibreOffice can even open and save Microsoft office files. So if you have been using Office from Bill, you can open those files and work on them in office from Linux. And save either way.
This is one free thing that is actually the real deal.
Linux has been around for a while, but it has markedly improved over the years, and there is no longer a need for Windows based systems. Neither at home or for work.
I am D’Andrew and I approved this message [sorry folks, but it really is close to election time]


40 posted on 08/10/2022 1:05:10 PM PDT by harpolemond (And yes. Truth will always set you free abortion is passing a child into the fire)
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