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On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:08:32 -0500, c186282 wrote:

>    Admittedly though, MOST people will make their first Linux install
>    stick using Winders. Tragic. I got it started using RHEL and early
>    SUSE that came on floppies bought from WalMart. Never needed Win
>    after that. Had to deal with its BS at The Job for a long time alas -
>    MUCH happier with my Linux servers and such but the staff was NOT
>    gonna switch to Linux, most could barely work Win. Alas only ONE
>    other Linux convertee in the place.

My first Linux was Slackware on floppies, about 40 for the full install 
iirc, downloaded and created on a Windows box, strictly DIY. I do have a 
SuSE box, 8.2?, with hard copy documentation and 4 DVDs. $79.99 at Best 
Buy. I think that came after the Red Hat release with the notorious gcc 
2.96 and screwed up Python.

However, starting with MSDOS in the '80s most of what I've worked on has 
been Microsoft. The software in my current job was originally developed on 
AIX. We had some shared RS6000 servers but much of the development was 
done on Linux. Unfortunately we only had two sites that would run Linux 
after they migrated from IBM hardware to the much less expensive x86 
boxes, While the legacy programs run on Windows, they use the MKS 
NutCracker runtime, sort of a commercial Cygwin. The GUIs are Motif and 
run on the PTC X server from MKS. 

As I've mentioned when I provision a new machine the workload is very 
similar, Windows or Linux. Vim, VS Code, Postgres, QGIS, Python, 
LibreOffice if I really have to read some docx proposal, node, and so 
forth. I even use the dotnet SDK on Linux. 

I prefer Linux but I do not hate Windows and I can operate effectively on 
either. I'm not a gamer, so that doesn't matter, I've never used Office, 
and I'm not tied to a prehistoric version of Access, like DFS. The only 
thing tied to Windows for the most part is Esri and I'm no longer actively 
developing with Esri.