Re: Do Microsoft?s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?

On 2024-05-30, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Thu, 30 May 2024 12:02:56 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
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On 2024-05-29, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 29 May 2024 15:31:56 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
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I used Windows 2000. It's inferior to Cinnamon, or Mate or Xfce in my
opinion. (Of course these desktops have the advantage of running on
top of Linux.) But I can't quite understand why you run down Linux UIs
that look like the Windows' UI — what is it about Windows 2000's UI
that you think is somehow unique compared to other Windows desktops?

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Well 2000 was better than NT 4.0, the king of BSOD.

 
My younger brother, who's been a Windows' programmer for a long time
now,
hated to see Windows 2000 go away. I don't know anything about NT, never
used it. I guess I was using XP at that time.

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Originally there was going to be a NT 5.0 in 1998 but when the release was
pushed to Dec 1999 they decided Windows 2000 sounded cool, particularly
with the Y2K bug.
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XP was built on the NT 5.1 kernel. We're now up to NT 10.0.  MS jumped
from 6.3 to 10.0.  Sometimes I think they like to confuse people :)  SQL
Server is the same but at least they didn't skip numbers. SQL Server 2022
identifies as 16.x.
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It's interesting Windows 10, Windows 11, and the related server editions
all are the NT 10.0 kernel.

I've basically lost track of Windows and its current releases. For example,
I had no idea the NT kernel was still around or at 10.0. I guess the old
Windows 95, 98, XP line ended with Me. (Another OS release Microsoft would
probably like to forget.)

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