Subj : What's Your Go-to OS for
To   : Accession
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Feb 18 2025 08:52:16

  Re: What's Your Go-to OS for
  By: Accession to Arelor on Sun Feb 16 2025 06:48 am

 > There's the few that have always been 'windowsized', but most have kept a
 > pretty basic install (netboot, non-gui, whatever you want to call it). They
 > leave it up to the user to add all the frill they want to it, and most users
 > want the frill. You can argue that till your face turns blue, but that's
 > honestly the only reason Linux has gained (albeit not very much) the
 > traction it has over the years. Otherwise, people would still *only* be
 > using Linux as servers, to this day.

I would argue that the windowzification of Linux distributions is a recent trend.

When I talk about Windowzification, I am not talking about ease of use - I'd argue Windows itself is not an easy-to-use OS besides its unsommurnable software support. When I talk about Windowzification I talk about tight integration of new components with principles that are MS stuff but were rarely seen in Linux.

This would be things like binary registries, non-text based syslogd-like services, and encapsulated programs that are deployed from integrated stores with such a huge impact that they use up a whole privilege subsystem in the kernel to work.


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