Posted on 01/17/2019 1:14:39 PM PST by ShadowAce
I think it's about $35.00 a crack.
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That’s what she said.................
Back in the late 1990’s we started to make linux kernel changes for our project. We found a defect in kernel code. I reported it on a Wednesday. I was sent a kernel patch from Germany on Friday evening. We tested it for the developers during the weekend and they added it to the standard kernel early the next week.
That was great support and it wasn’t even for anything critical.
I dual boot Linux.
The games I play don’t run on Linux.
The software I know isn’t Linux software and I don’t feel like relearning it.
If you use Linux, you know that you will have to go to the command prompt and search the knowledge base sooner or later and the answer may be that your peripheral will simply not work with Linux. Ask me about Kodak printers.
It is a decent operating system but it is still not ready for the general public.
It's pretty good, but I got tired of all the little inconsistencies, all the things I had to install and upgrade all the time. I had to spend too much time dropping out of the GUI and into the command line, which meant looking up a never ending series of "cheat sheets."
The biggest thing I didn't like was all the times that Google told me more than one way to solve whatever issue came up, and I couldn't tell which was the "right" way, where "right" meant "which way has the best future prospects given what I am using my computer for.
Eventually I went back to Windows. I don't have enough interest and motivation to learn a new OS, with all its details and idiosyncrasies. I'm trying to do something with my computers, write software to do things. The OS is just a detail to me.
MYTH 21: Linux is Free
The Truth: Only if you don’t value your time
I dual boot Kali Linux and Windows 10. Kali was more of a challenge to get running properly.
whereas other operating systems do not survive for more than a few years, usually because of some combination of technical inferiority and planned obsolescence."
We still have customers running GCOS 8, a mainframe operating system. It was developed in the late 1970's and first shipped to customers in ~1980. We still support it and make system changes to fix bugs. I would suggest that this is more than a "few years".
We no longer have the ability to build HW with the original GCOS 8 machine instruction set, but we emulate the instruction set on commodity Intel processors.
Customers can run COBOL programs which were compiled in 1975 on our platforms with NO modifications. Many customers have simply lost their original source code. We even run the proprietary IDS/II CODOSYL database from that time period.
I use both windows and linux on a daily basis.
While its true that the beginner distros like Mint equal or exceed Windows in ease of use for ordinary situations the second you stray a foot off the beaten path you are in for a wild ride. Picture hours trying to find a way to pin an icon to the taskbar. Linux is still essentially a command line with a gui pasted on top and the philosophy of the system and the mentality of the people that help you will be oriented toward going down the rabbit hole of obtuse man pages and spools of arcane commands.
Genuine advantages Linux does have compared to windows imclude freedom from its ecosystem and spying and greater power and compatibility with programs for more technical use cases. You might not be able to game as much in Linux but if you need to use certain technical or scientific programs its often the only game in town.
Now in terms of politics Microsoft and Linux honchos both promulgate the soc jus cult mentality so they seem about equal in that respect.
I installed Linux manjaro and Windows 7 in a duel boot configuration. You’re required to install Windows first then Linux. It took me one week to figure out how to do a basic install Windows 7 (recently. Will not use Windows 10) a few minutes to install Linux manjaro.
Most of the desktops are probably using Windows, but I'll bet most of the processing and storage is using Linux. Including at Microsoft.
Not myth: Linux requires users to think.
BTW - The trick to install windows 7 was to do it off a CD not a flash drive.
I’ve been running it trouble-free for years now. I still keep a Windoze computer but I hardly ever turn it on because my Linux Mint box does all the things I normally need to do with one exception; Skype. I’m not real big on using it so...
I can leave my Linux box running for months at a time without needed to be rebooted. Best thing I ever did was make the jump and it really wasn’t that much of a learning curve. Mint almost mimics Win7; the last good Windows OS.
Android uses a Linux kernel, and is certainly quite popular. It’s only arguably a flavor of Linux, but shows it’s possible to create a Linux for the masses. It’s helpful to have the financial resources that Google has, though.
Or you can use Tails, which is Debian based and free.
https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html
They’re both pretty slick but I like Tor anonymity.
As rockrr said, you can use just about any distro installed on a USB stick. Easy enough to do and doesn’t cost you $35.
Fantastic! This is a better and more comprehensive list than I have read yet!
Thank you!
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