Re: Brace for glitches and GRUB grumbles as Ubuntu 24.04.1 lands

Le 11-09-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :

On 9/7/2024 6:56 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 7 Sep 2024 09:48:51 -0400, DFS wrote:
 

On 9/6/2024 11:42 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
You do not lose control of your docs when your Adobe (or MS 365)
subscription ends or you stop paying.

 
You can only open them read-only. You can no longer work with them. You
cannot even export them to a nonproprietary format.
 
If that’s not “losing control”, tell me what your idea of “control over
your own work” is.
 

So I rephrase my claim slightly: “Adobe is an irrelevance to 98% of
Windows users”.

>
So?

 
So Adobe users are a minority of a minority. In the whole wide (Linux-
dominated) world of computing, they add up to a rounding error.

>
Desktop computing is the largest, most important segment of computing,
and Windows has completely dominated it since 1990 or so.

Nope. The smartphone is larger. And it's dominated by android first. By
Apple second. And Windows is nowhere to be seen.

I don't speak about Linux because Android is based on Linux but it's
Windows in spirit. But nevertheless, the largest segment of computing is
not dominated by Windows.

Desktops are the ONLY reason any of us, including you, are here.

Nope. The servers allow the Desktop computers to see themselves. So the
Desktop computers are the reason we are using computers at home. But the
servers are the only reason we can use our desktops to speak together.
And the servers are dominated by Linux.

So why do you Linux lusers always babble about the paltry number of
supercomputers in the world?

I don't, but the interesting part about the supercomputers in the world
is real. Because where there is supercomputers, there is real money. So
if they chose Linux, Windows, Apple, BSD, solaris, AIX or whatever, it's
for technical reasons, not to avoid some licence cost. Because when they
spend billions on computer it's to use them, not to brag about them.

So, if every supercomputer is using Linux, it's not because it's fancy,
it's because they all consider it's technically superior. It's because
they know what they do. So you can give any phoronix article about how
ubuntu with gnome is far from superior to Windows as you want: they are
not installing ubuntu with gnome and with every useless shiny crap for
beginners. They are installing Linux with only what's required to run
their computers. With a good management of ressources. Which Windows
doesn't allow them to: if Windows was as good as Linux for that, some
would know it and use Windows on some supercomputers.

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