[ShadowAce]

[dfwgator]

[taxcontrol]

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].

[BereanBrain]

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?

[Kommodor]

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...)

[Sergio]

Tech bookmark.

[Paradox]

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.

[zeugma]

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.

[daniel1212]

Desktop/Laptop operating system browsing statistics
Windows			81.76%
macOS			13.49%
Unknown			1.99%
Linux			1.68%
Chrome OS			1.08%
Desktop OS market share according to StatCounter for September 2018.[73] Chrome OS is also based on the Linux kernel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems

[daniel1212]

OK, here is a tech ?s" I have a couple of 2017 cameras that are supposed to work with smart phones, which i do not have. The software comes via Google Play.

If if Install Chrome OS on a PC and Turn It Into a Chromebook then do you think I could install the software on it and get it to work?

There is also https://www.techspot.com/downloads/7016-phoenix-os.html