I am trying to focus on posting source documents, as opposed to someone else’s reporting on source documents.
Request for clarifications “for beginners”:
systemd, XOrg, Wayland - you have mentioned those without an explanation of what they are.
Last time I did anything with linux, Ubuntu was all the rage. I’m interested in hearing more details about what makes it a distro to avoid.
@snaptastic, please let me know if this comment is relevant enough.
Somebody mentioned Voodoo cards, I had a bit of information that related to that. That’s how discussions work; they kind of go where they go.
But I’ll make absolutely sure to get your permission before I comment again.
I bet you’re fun at parties.
Voodoo cards are worth money to the right people. They’re used in a bunch of coin-op arcade games.
Most people who drive cars are not mechanics. Most computer users are not also computer engineers; they don’t want to be and shouldn’t have to be.
If you want to drive your car with spare parts and tools in the back, outfitted with gloves, goggles, a scarf, and an oilcoat; you can do that. That doesn’t mean that everyone else should do that. It’s not 1992 anymore.
And I’m going to burn a whole bunch of those hours falling asleep while the audio still plays.
I thought that we only required one button.
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Microsoft Certified Reboot Specialist
This is the only argument I find makes sense. It would definitely be elementary for Microsoft to have those consumer features turned off by default in the Pro/Pro for Workstations/Enterprise/etc editions.
Yeah, there are a lot of things that need doing. That’s why people have jobs in IT.
That’s because your IT department hasn’t turned all that crap off with group policy.
When something breaks in Windows you’ve got about 3 things you can try before the solution is to reinstall.
From the point of view of a lifetime Windows guy, I have to disagree with this. Unless you have a malware problem (where it can be exceedingly difficult for the average user to know whether they’ve gotten everything out), almost all failures of Windows in the modern age are the result of hardware failures. If your Windows 7 or newer computer blue screens, it’s very likely a bad piece of hardware, occasionally a bad driver. The OS itself is quite solid.
… there is documentation everywhere for everything on Linux.
In my experience and perspective, I’ve found the documentation for Linux things to be of varying quality and usually for an audience who already knows their way around Linux. Admittedly, I haven’t had to go looking in quite a while, so maybe that landscape is different today than I am aware of - but when I was looking, I found myself quite frustrated more often than not.
Finally, with Windows, if you really have to, you can pay for support incidents from Microsoft. They’re not cheap, but I’ve found their server and server application support to be reliable. Is there something like that available to a Linux user?
I have never felt the need to store anywhere near even 64GB worth of stuff on my phone.