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Ethereum Cofounder Suggests Linux as Alternative for Elon Musk’s Windows Dilemma
Crypto News Flash ^ | 27. February 2024 | AnnJoy Makena

Posted on 02/28/2024 6:56:27 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica

Elon Musk received an invitation from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin to join the desktop Linux community in a fascinating exchange on the social media site X. This gesture came shortly after Musk expressed his dissatisfaction with Microsoft Windows OS, highlighting the compulsory requirement for a Microsoft account to use his newly purchased computer. Buterin’s proposal highlights a broader movement in favor of open-source software, reflecting the critical juncture in which business executives are candidly exploring alternatives to popular operating systems.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: bigtech; elonmusk; linux
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To: EnderWiggin1970

I still have Win7 on my Mac (in Parallels) in the unlikely event that I need to run my Windows only CAD program. I haven’t used it in years, since I filed for my last patent...


21 posted on 02/28/2024 8:39:21 AM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: ducttape45

“Windows 7. Nuff said.”

The best.


22 posted on 02/28/2024 8:42:40 AM PST by dljordan
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To: ProgressingAmerica; rdb3; JosephW; martin_fierro; Still Thinking; zeugma; Vinnie; ironman; Egon; ...

23 posted on 02/28/2024 8:51:23 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: EnderWiggin1970

“I was slow to consider Linux, but I’ll be following up with this suggestion as well.”

It is really not that hard. Get an old laptop and try Linux Mint.


24 posted on 02/28/2024 9:14:32 AM PST by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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To: DiogenesLamp
The US Constitution grants only the government the ability to produce money. As soon as they decide to crack down on alternate currencies, the stuff becomes worthless.

Actually the Constitution is pretty specific about what money is, and FRNs are not Constitutional money.

Art 1, Section 10:
No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.

25 posted on 02/28/2024 9:38:35 AM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: zeugma
My point remains. When the government wants to shut it down, it becomes worthless in the United States.

Oh, and Abraham Lincoln's government gave us paper money.

26 posted on 02/28/2024 10:01:57 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: George from New England

“Don’t I need an ‘X’ account to use Elon’s platform ??”

X is not a personal operating system. X is not a required default concept that comes with almost all computers available whether you want it or not. X does not perpetually own YOUR computer and force you to comply to THEIR wishes and parameters.


27 posted on 02/28/2024 10:18:40 AM PST 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: Tell It Right

Could that pathway be marketed and sold?


28 posted on 02/28/2024 10:20:56 AM PST by GOPJ (Q. What are the two things Biden always finds at ice cream shops? A. Ice cream and young children.)
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To: GOPJ
Could that pathway be marketed and sold?

It already is. Disc imaging is usually easiest to do with a disc imaging software tool. It's used by large enough organizations that have to set up new workstations/laptops. You set up a new laptop manually, make sure it works fine, then run the disc imaging tool to make a copy (image) of the drive. Then later when you set up a new machine you copy the cloned image to the drive on the new machine and all of your company policy settings for the machine is set up.

29 posted on 02/28/2024 10:44:57 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ShadowAce

Well duh. Elon isn’t really upset about windows. Notice he attacked Google and Microsoft but not apple? Because apple doesn’t play in AI (yet). So he’s just drumming up business for his AI GROK.


30 posted on 02/28/2024 10:45:05 AM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: NWFree

LOL.


31 posted on 02/28/2024 10:45:19 AM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: dljordan

Yep, Windows XP and 7 were the best operating systems Microsoft put out. I still run W7, though I have a W10 machine standing by. It has build 1909 on it as every build since locks up my G6/7 system board/CPU.


32 posted on 02/28/2024 11:32:09 AM PST by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Tell It Right

Windows 11 literally needs a set of tricks during the install to force it to a local account. You have to open a Command Prompt window and disable your network adapter at the right time to keep Windows from going forward with an online Microsoft account.

It is not a well known process.


33 posted on 02/28/2024 11:51:49 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

As a software designer/programmer/etc I know of no one who loves Windoze in any edition. Some folks like it better than other folks, some use it as a necessity only. Windoze is overweight, slow, requires massive memory to run, and of course is highly vulnerable to bad guys. Most versions of Linux run faster in half of the RAM and with fewer hardware requirements. I have two linux systems running with 4Gb RAM which is 1/4 the recommended RAM for Windoze. And yes they use full graphical interfaces.

Most mainstream apps that run on windows also provide linux versions that run exactly the same as their Windoze variant.

I remember when my son switched from a Windoze laptop to an Apple notebook. He almost did not believe me when I told him that Apple OS was a linux variant.


34 posted on 02/28/2024 11:57:39 AM PST by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: ByteMercenary

Well, to be fair. Mach is based/inspired by BSD, not Linux.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/BSD/BSD.html

Probably a more exact way to put it though. Tech evolution gets complicated.


35 posted on 02/28/2024 12:42:07 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: EnderWiggin1970; ducttape45

” held on to Win7 for as long as I could because.............”

I would like to personally help anybody who was serious about making the switch.


36 posted on 02/28/2024 12:45:52 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica
I'm getting ready to go dual-boot on my machine.

I'm tired of my Windows OS getting raped by Microsoft every 5 weeks.

37 posted on 02/28/2024 1:30:30 PM PST by kiryandil
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To: EnderWiggin1970
You pretty much hit the nail on the head.

All the Windows O/S's up to Windows 7 enabled the user to control his/her experience.

Everything after that was designed for Microsoft to control and took the ability of the user to control the O/S away from them.

That's my main beef, and why I will use Windows 10 only if I absolutely have to. I got internet security software, and I only visit websites that I know to be legit. Until websites totally block a Windows 7 user I will continue to use it. It's that simple.

If I have to, I can install Linux Mint. I have used it in the past and can do so again.

38 posted on 02/28/2024 2:10:26 PM PST by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: z3n
It’s really annoying when you are setting up pro on a laptop for an organization

And read thru 8 pages here of what this can lead to: Your pin is no longer available due to a change to the security settings on your device.

After increasing RAM and resulting in this, and trying the various suggestions, I did a reset. Thank God I had most backed up.

39 posted on 02/28/2024 3:43:56 PM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: null and void

I am not comfortable with a monopoly.


40 posted on 02/28/2024 3:53:53 PM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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