Re: The joy of Democracy

On 23 Oct 2024 18:00:55 GMT, vallor wrote:

My politics are middle-of-the-road by any other measure, but many
red-state denizens would consider me -- not "left", not even
"left-wing", but "leftist" and "a dad-blurned lib'rul!"

Welcome to the normal world. Which many (most?) people in the US seem to
consider “radical left”. Here in NZ, we call it just another godless
atheist socialist liberal secular democracy.

Meanwhile, we use Linux _a lot_ in our business.  I daresay Linux is a
more useful server and workstation OS than anything else.

It seems to have pretty much put an end to Microsoft’s Windows Server
business--at least the on-premises part. As well as killing off Windows
Home Server, Windows Media Center, Windows Server HPC Edition ...

When Microsoft added Linux to their OS, I figured Linus had achieved his
goal of Linux on the desktop.

I would distinguish between “desktop” and “workstation”. To me, the
difference is that “workstation” includes both “desktop” and “server”
features in a single installation. You’ll note this is something Windows
carefully avoids doing--Microsoft wants you to play a lot of extra bucks
for that “server” functionality. Linux does it all as a matter of course.

Others may disagree,
but wide-scale adoption of Linux by Microsoft can't be denied: heck,
they even have their own distribution now.

Microsoft is desperately trying to make Windows seem cool again, by adding
Linux-like features to it (PowerShell, the new Windows Terminal, the
revamped Notepad). I think a lot of people would prefer it if they
concentrated on just making it less buggy.

BTW, this workstation is a turnkey offering by System76 ...

My laptop is from them, too (second laptop I’ve bought from them). This
workstation I am using now is a 12-core AMD white-box build from a local
PC shop, on which I installed Debian Unstable because I am a bit of a
daredevil.