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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Windows Is A Great OS ... If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 07:58:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-02-25, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-02-25 12:17 a.m., rbowman wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:55:55 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> Still, I feel that Linux is an excellent operating system for machines
>>> that commercial operating systems don't support anymore, but nothing
>>> else.
>> 
>> We've been down this road ad nauseam. Linux may be an acquired taste when
>> it comes to desktops but the web and the cloud essential runs on Linux.
>> Even Azure is VMs spun up on Microsoft's own Linux OS.
>
> There is no denying that it is excellent for servers, especially since 
> it makes remote access and management extremely simple. The desktop 
> experience is also much better than it used to be, but it's normal for 
> it to have trouble since it is impossible for it to support hardware as 
> well as the proprietary operating systems: the manufacturers don't 
> release drivers for Linux in most cases and don't even provide 
> information on their specifications. The fact that Linux supports 
> hardware as well as it does is admirable, but we can't blame people for 
> preferring to use a system which they know will support their hardware 
> without flaw.

That can be an issue, but with Dell business machines (which is what I 
mostly use) no issue at all. Obviously if I was a game player these machines 
would be inadequate. But, luckily, I'm not so these Dell business machines 
work great with Linux Mint on the desktop. 

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what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien