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The Linux desktop: With great success comes great failure
ComputerWorld ^
| 13 November 2018
| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Posted on 11/15/2018 9:30:47 AM PST by ShadowAce
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posted on
11/15/2018 9:30:47 AM PST
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ShadowAce
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
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posted on
11/15/2018 9:31:20 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
11/15/2018 9:32:18 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: ShadowAce
Love me some Linux Mint
If Quickbooks and Turbotax would create a Linux port of their system, there would be no need for me to maintain ANY Windows OS in my house.
For work, I need Viso to have a port [sigh].
To: ShadowAce
You DO know that MSOFT is concerting over to a version of Linux as the core of Windows, and “windows” will only be the desktop, right?
To: BereanBrain
Cinnamon mint 17.3 here. Love it.
Linux is an odd thing. I had to ask a few IT friends which flavor to choose. Mint is very XP-like. I love it and use only Linux for online shopping or banking.
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posted on
11/15/2018 9:52:16 AM PST
by
bicyclerepair
(MAGA - DRAIN THE SWAMP ! - I love my online family of FReepers.)
To: bicyclerepair
I think the best thing about Linux is it runs better on half the hardware than windows. For example I cobbled together my Linux box from spare parts. It only has a single 64bit CPU yet runs better than windoze on a dual CPU.
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posted on
11/15/2018 10:00:05 AM PST
by
bicyclerepair
(MAGA - DRAIN THE SWAMP ! - I love my online family of FReepers.)
To: ShadowAce
The desktop is dying, and no-one will care anymore. It will all be tablets, smartphones and gameboxes.
(and if you don’t believe me, then why are all the PC gaming powerhouses suddenly catering to the smartphone crowd - because they know where the future money is...)
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posted on
11/15/2018 10:01:40 AM PST
by
Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
11/15/2018 10:02:14 AM PST
by
Sergio
(An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
To: Kommodor
Serious gamers will be on a desktop. I built a super mega game box with an 8core CPU 16g ram ssd and gtx960 Gpu (all I could afford at the time)
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posted on
11/15/2018 10:07:24 AM PST
by
bicyclerepair
(MAGA - DRAIN THE SWAMP ! - I love my online family of FReepers.)
To: Kommodor
i doubt business will run on tablets, smartphones and gameboxes...
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posted on
11/15/2018 10:13:07 AM PST
by
Chode
( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
To: bicyclerepair
CAD, high end 4k and higher resolution video takes resources just like real games.
I can barely play LA Noir. Not a gamer.
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posted on
11/15/2018 10:19:42 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
To: bicyclerepair
Ubuntu user myself.
It does most of what I need.
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posted on
11/15/2018 10:20:41 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
To: Kommodor
It will all be tablets, smartphones and gameboxes. And at least in the tablet and smartphone segments, a lot of those will be running Android, which is a code fork of Linux.
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posted on
11/15/2018 10:24:55 AM PST
by
Campion
((marine dad))
To: Kommodor
Tablet sales have been in decline for 16 quarters now.
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posted on
11/15/2018 10:39:54 AM PST
by
KEVLAR
(Liberty or Death)
To: ShadowAce
I have compiled my own linux, ran nice and quick but....
Windows just works for me, so I run that 99% of the time. I do have Mint on a dual boot, but I hardly ever use it.
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posted on
11/15/2018 10:42:57 AM PST
by
Paradox
(Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
To: bicyclerepair
Writing this from Cinnamon Mint "Sylvia" 18.3 64-bit Long Time Support until April 2021 according to specs. Using 18 since it was introduced over 2 years ago.
Side-by-side with Win7Pro on the same CPU in a Dell box, using verizon speed test, this Linux box uploads/downloads twice as fast as the Win7Pro box. My IT friend says it's because of Win7's overhead.
FWIW
I've seen some Anroid pads and they are pretty impressive.
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posted on
11/15/2018 11:19:03 AM PST
by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux)
To: ShadowAce
Yeah, Linux has taken over if you consider android devices and such, but I'd still like to see more people using it as a desktop, just because it is so much easier to use with less headaches than the Redmond alternative. For instance, a few days ago someone posted an FR thread about migrating data from an old computer to a new one. With Linux, if you have both systems up and running and on your local network, it's one command...
From the old system to the new:
scp -r ~/* zeugma@newssystem:.
If you're logged into the new system:
scp -r zeugma@oldsystem:* .
If you just have the hard drive from the old (note:$OLDDRIVE = whatever directory it is currently mounted as), "cp -r $OLDDRIVE $HOME
My bookmarks file for Firefox is essentially the same file that I've transferred from one system to another starting over 20 years back. Yeah, Firefox now stores the data as a json file, but it started as bookmarks.htm back in the day, and I've been able to maintain it without significant loss for that long.
Part of that is that I'm religious about backups. Part is that maintaining consistency with linux is easy.
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posted on
11/15/2018 11:26:59 AM PST
by
zeugma
(Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
To: Chode; bicyclerepair
True that, but that’s business. For ‘fun’, fanatics like me (dinosaurs) will still build their own PCs, but the lion’s share of the market for digital entertainment these days is driven by non-desktop devices.
If it weren’t for the fact that my favorite games require Windows, I’d be running Linux on my home PCs. The moment that changes, it’s bye-bye Redmond.
One of the major studios (Blizzard) just announced that their next major title in a well known franchise will be a mobile game. Other studios are trying hard to break into the console/mobile market, and starting to let their desktop IPs wither on the vine.
Bleh. Not happy about it, it just seems to be the way things are going.
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posted on
11/15/2018 11:47:29 AM PST
by
Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
To: taxcontrol; bicyclerepair; imardmd1
I *loved* Linux Mint since version 12. It was everything that the Ubuntu "Unity" disaster should have been. But I gave it up for
PCLinuxOS at version 17 as a result of the SystemD disaster. The first time your services die for no reason or you get rooted on the Internet, give PCLinuxOS a shot. I haven't looked back.
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posted on
11/15/2018 12:24:51 PM PST
by
so_real
( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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