Re: The joy of Linux

On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 13:19:25 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

But one has to ask what in fact a desktop OS is for these days.

The “desktop” OS originated back in the day when people couldn’t afford
“workstations”. Look at the Unix-based systems of the time (particularly
the RISC-based ones), and you see machines that did interactive “desktop”
stuff, with the added advantage of multitasking, but more than that, they
also offered “server”-style functionality in the same package.

That, in essence, was a “workstation”. Microsoft killed it off in favour
of a model where the server-style functionality is carefully crippled in
the “desktop” OS, so if you want that, you have to pay extra bucks (a lot
of extra bucks) for a “server” OS.

Well, Microsoft killed off the “Unix workstation”. But today we have the
“Linux workstation” in its place, doing everything its predecessor could
do back then, and more.