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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
I like Red Hat and think it is a great choice for biz. However, some Linux aficionado will lambaste it as being inferior to the version he prefers which will be different from all the other Linux versions that all the other Linux cultists prefer.

So yes, they will consider it as settling and will whine everytime they are forced by the idiots in corporate to have to settle for Red Hat.

41 posted on 08/10/2022 1:06:50 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: antidemoncrat

Linux wasn’t even released until 1991, so that would be kind of hard.

Sad thing is, Microsoft had their own UNIX, called XENIX, but sold it to SCO group.


42 posted on 08/10/2022 1:16:04 PM PDT by sloanrb
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To: ShadowAce

I’ve been totally off Windows for 7 years. What a freaking relief. There’s no software capability I lack.
I run Apache Webserver, MariaDB (MYsql), LibreOffice, Blender, FreeCad, Netbeans, Firefox/Brave/Chrome, Gimp, VLCMedia, Audacity, Musescore, Kicad, Pycharm, eclipse, Filezilla, giimagereader,
etc etc


43 posted on 08/10/2022 1:19:56 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: ShadowAce

“Adding insult to injury, Microsoft’s data formats can hold programming macros. That’s why Microsoft Office formats are commonly used to transmit malware.”

Yes, this is a security hole. But, it’s also one reasons that businesses LIKE using Microsoft products. If the software doesn’t do what I want, I can write a VB macro and MAKE it do what I want, and I don’t have to pay some additional software license or hire a developer to do it for me.


44 posted on 08/10/2022 1:37:28 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Dr. Sivana

>Its roots are in Windows NT/Wondows 2000 which was written from the ground up.

by engineers lured to Microsoft from Digital Equipment Corporation (RIP).


45 posted on 08/10/2022 2:02:09 PM PDT by fretzer
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To: fretzer

And RIP to the Alpha chip.


46 posted on 08/10/2022 2:20:01 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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To: DaxtonBrown

No great replacement for FileMaker Pro, and LibreOffice Writer is no substitute for WordPerfect. Too bad Microsoft bought off Corel when Corel was making Linux desktop products 109 years ahead of time.


47 posted on 08/10/2022 2:21:24 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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To: ShadowAce

If I could not customize Windows 11 (which much improves it) the way you easily can for free, then I might try again to conform a Linus distro to my liking, but since I can still do the former, why should I take the time to try to do so? But thank God for what one can do with both, for God and good, and for options.


48 posted on 08/10/2022 2:33:58 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: sloanrb

OOPS! My mistake.


49 posted on 08/10/2022 2:36:12 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Dr. Sivana

WordPerfect is still the best word-processing software I’ve ever used.


50 posted on 08/10/2022 2:36:55 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: fretzer

You can go full circle back to VMS:

https://vmssoftware.com/about/openvmsx86


51 posted on 08/10/2022 2:51:23 PM PDT by bobcat62
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To: ShadowAce

The year of the Linux desktop, again?


52 posted on 08/10/2022 2:52:11 PM PDT by bobcat62
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To: ShadowAce

MX has a pretty nice snapshot to USB function. I like it, anyway.


53 posted on 08/10/2022 4:31:58 PM PDT by tanstaafl.72555
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To: Pollard

Just you wait for Windows 12!!


54 posted on 08/10/2022 10:28:17 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: so_real

Well there are encryption programs for your most sensitive data and with over a billion Windows 10 users worldwide one user is a needle in a haystack. Linux is for salmon who like to swim upstream...


55 posted on 08/11/2022 11:42:43 AM PDT by MichaelRDanger
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To: Terry L Smith

Just plug in the external drive and Linux will see all the files to be manipulated as you like. It will even open msoffice files with the libreoffice app. It will handle all your MS files just like normal on MS.

Just like you do with MS. Here is something cool. If you install Linux “along side” MS as dual boot on the same drive, you can boot in Linux then just go open your existing MS volumes and drag and drop files from it to the Linux folders.

All normal files are compatible between Linux and MS. Just plug and play.


56 posted on 08/12/2022 1:37:01 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: ShadowAce

The cat’s meow of linux distros seems to be Ubuntu-Mate.


57 posted on 08/13/2022 12:56:23 AM PDT by ganeemead (There is no definition of patriotism that includes stooging or siding with Nazis against Christians.)
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To: ShadowAce
When we were looking for a replacement for my wife, I noticed that also.

Wife’s can be expensive to replace... more so if you have Girl Friend 2.0 installed....😂

58 posted on 08/18/2022 9:50:47 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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