Re: My 138 $ Amazon order ( for 6pm today ).

Le 03-05-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :

On 5/1/2024 5:32 PM, Joel wrote:

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
 

you don't know what you're giving up by
clinging to Windows.

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What do you think I'm "giving up"?

 
 
Independence.  Simplicity.  Elegance.  Power.  I feel Mint Cinnamon is
an enhancement, not a sacrifice of features.

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Independence:
You're no more independent of a distro maker than I am of Microsoft.

For him, I don't know, but for me you are wrong. With Windows, you have
to use it for everything, from the boot to the display of your
applications. With Linux, I can choose the way it boots, the way it
manages the sound, the way it displays the application. I mean, I can
change the Window Manager at will, when with Windows, you can only add
another one on top of the one provided by Windows. I'm not even sure you
can remove Edge (a few year ago, it was impossible to remove IE without
breaking your system).

For the need to provide an account to use Microsoft products, you are
clearly more dependant of Microsoft than me on my distro maker. I can
change distro anytime without changing the way I'm using Linux.

Simplicity:
ie fewer features in Linux.

In fact thirty years ago, using Linux was very difficult to use, you
needed to do everything with the command line and a lot of other things,
while very powerful, not user friendly. Now, things have changed, you
still can use the terminal to have full power, but you can keep it
simple and avoid the terminal for a day to day use.

But the simplicity of 'sudo apt install package' cannot be beat.

You can use a graphical interface to update you ubuntu/debian/whatever
based on apt manager. There are two very interesting things about the
'sudo apt install package' you don't have with graphical package
managers.

The first one is, on a website it's easier to provide you the command which
will install your package (only one line to display) and it's easier for
you to copy/past it in your terminal. With a graphical interface, you
need to have the same as the one used by the writer of the web page. And
then, you have to struggle in the menues if you need some options.

The second one, it's easy to script, or to do an alias with it, to provide
you your preferred way to install things.

Power:
http://www.auditiait.es/en/list-of-commands-msc/
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Linux hobbyware can't compete

I heard Windows powershell was pretty good, but I heard it was not as
good as bash.

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