Subj : Computer operating system of choice?
To   : Greenlfc
From : Joacim Melin
Date : Wed Feb 09 2022 12:50:24

 G> On 08 Feb 2022, boraxman said the following...
 G>  
 bo>> The problem is that instead of people learning how to use existing
 bo>> solutions properly, they invent another!  So people decide that RPM's or
 bo>> DEB's are no good, and create Snap, Flatpak and AppImage.  Now we have
 bo>> three more ways!

 G> Cue the obligatory https://xkcd.com/927/

 bo>> having it controlled by a central power.  For those who wants that
 bo>> polished unified, I'm happy for them to choose MacOS instead.

 G> See, I disagree with anyone who says MacOS is more polished.  I've
 G> lived with it as my work computer for the past three years and it's a
 G> bloody disaster.  *Nothing* works as it should, and the updates system
 G> is worse than Microsoft.

 G> If Microsoft would quit adding trackers, ads, forced Microsoft
 G> accounts, and unnecessary features to Windows it would actually be
 G> quite compelling. Outside of those items, the last several versions of
 G> Win10 have been pretty solid.  If I needed to use a proprietary OS,
 G> I'd slap Windows Server 2019 on my laptop and call it a day.

TBH, I've used Windows 10 since it was released and I'm yet to see an ad anywhere in the UI.  They install a bunch of trial apps but I just delete them and that's that.  Their tracking is a different story and I can't speak of how much they actually track - I would think that Pihole (which is my DNS resolver at home) takes care of most of that. 


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