Re: Who Knows Hardware?

On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:16:31 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:

 
I have faith in Linux, that it can ruin Microsoft's Windows business.
That keeps me here.
 
But.. your way of approaching Linux will never do it of course. Somebody
needs to create a flavor of Linux on which installing new programs are
as simple as doing it on smartphones.
>

In that case, you are not referring to COMPUTERS; you are referring to
APPLIANCES.

An appliance is a simple device that is strictly limited to a well defined,
small set of capabilities and nothing more.

A computer, in stark contrast, is an extremely complicated machine that
does nothing but that has the potential to do anything.

No two computing machines are exactly alike because of the huge number
of different hardware and configuration possibilities.  As a consequence
it becomes difficult, if not impossible, for any software package to
accommodate all systems all the time.

Any computer must be intensively managed.  There is no way to avoid that
basic fact.

A lot of GNU/Linux distros attempt to remove the user from the management
loop but the end result is always more of an appliance rather than a
computer.

For me, half the enjoyment of using GNU/Linux is the intensive
managementthat that is required, and if performed successfully such
management provides a truly powerful computing system and not a cheap
appliance.












 I'm looking for such linux

products for desktops. If I find one, I'll never say anything else here
but describing that product :)
 
Then every one of you, including you, Flud, will become faithful user of
it for the rest of your lives.

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