Re: Windows Is A Great OS ... If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

On 2025-02-25, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-02-25 12:17 a.m., rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:55:55 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

Still, I feel that Linux is an excellent operating system for machines
that commercial operating systems don't support anymore, but nothing
else.

 
We've been down this road ad nauseam. Linux may be an acquired taste when
it comes to desktops but the web and the cloud essential runs on Linux.
Even Azure is VMs spun up on Microsoft's own Linux OS.

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There is no denying that it is excellent for servers, especially since
it makes remote access and management extremely simple. The desktop
experience is also much better than it used to be, but it's normal for
it to have trouble since it is impossible for it to support hardware as
well as the proprietary operating systems: the manufacturers don't
release drivers for Linux in most cases and don't even provide
information on their specifications. The fact that Linux supports
hardware as well as it does is admirable, but we can't blame people for
preferring to use a system which they know will support their hardware
without flaw.

That can be an issue, but with Dell business machines (which is what I
mostly use) no issue at all. Obviously if I was a game player these machines
would be inadequate. But, luckily, I'm not so these Dell business machines
work great with Linux Mint on the desktop.

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