Sujet : Re: Do Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 27. May 2024, 01:22:11
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On Sun, 26 May 2024 10:12:51 -0400, DFS wrote:
A 'workstation' is just a powerful desktop computer, and Windows is king
of the desktop.
Think of a “desktop” as a cut-down workstation: anything that might
encroach on “server”-style functionality has had its functionality
carefully crippled.
This is how the “Unix workstations” of yore worked. They were expensive
back then. So Windows NT “Workstation” came along, at a cut-down price,
and also cut-down functionality, but the customers didn’t notice -- then.
Today, only Linux and the BSDs offer “workstation”-class functionality.