Hoping wrote on 2022-02-19, 20:43:A typical statement, linux is not the definitive answer any more than any other OS is.
Curiously, today I just changed the OS of […]
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xcomcmdr wrote on 2022-02-19, 19:38:
Just use Linux and be done with it.
A typical statement, linux is not the definitive answer any more than any other OS is.
Curiously, today I just changed the OS of my HTPC, I had Linux and I just installed Windows 10 Pro, simply because Linux no longer met what I needed and Windows meets it better.
I have three PCs with Windows 10, four with Windows 7, three laptops with linux, a router with linux and a laptop with Haiku OS.
So to say, just use Linux and that's it, it's a somewhat closed view, each OS has its strengths and weaknesses, Windows 11 will have them too, but it turns out that everything in the world is like that.
I have been messing around with numerous distros since the mid 90s, and as far as it being a desktop OS, we just had the 3rd periodic, almost there, almost there, noooo, you've gone and messed it all up again, a couple of years back. So it's seeming to me now, that using linux is always going to be like taking a trip through town to the supermarket to pick up your groceries in a combine harvester towing a travel trailer... it can do SO much... but it sucks at picking up the groceries.
edit: Stretching that analogy, you get distros that have chopped down the combine harvester, unhooked the travel trailer, full custom cut and shut, so it's merely one lane wide and maybe akin to driving a pickup truck... but then you go to do something, and then it's like "That requires the threshing unit installed" ... so you have to refit that yourself... etc and so on... until now you've got it doing things you want it to do, but it's no longer like only driving a pickup, it's now a poorly bolted together combine harvester towing a travel trailer held together with duct tape.
editII: Bring this up to the core devs and it's like you're talking to agricultural engineers.. "What do you mean it's hard to drive? You just put it in the corner of a field, download the satellite imagery, turn on the GPS, say what crop you're harvesting, push a button and you can read a book while it harvests rows to the hopper as neat as you like."
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
