Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : boraxman
Date : Fri Apr 22 2022 20:35:01

 pF>  bo> I don't want Microsoft to fail.  Sure, Windows is crap, I wouldn't us
 pF>  bo> it, but having the "average person" move to Linux en masse fills me
 pF>  bo> with dread.  Devs will change Linux and the distros to something that
 pF>  bo> suits Windows users, not Linux users.
 pF> 
 pF> I don't know if it's crap any more. My desktop PC's been running Windows
 pF> 10,  I've gone through a Feature Upgrade seamlessly, and I haven't seen
 pF> a crash  in a year. I mostly keep it on 24/7 unless I'm away from my
 pF> home office for  the day.
 pF> 
 pF> WSL gives me a posix environment that blends into the OS nicely, much
 pF> more  seamlessly than cygwin or gitbash.
 pF> 
 pF> 

I'll have to try out WSL.  Windows is far more stable now, but I couldn't go back, and give up being able to SSH in to my computer, give up choice of window manager, btrfs, rsync server, package management, zsh, custom kernel, being able to run it on my Raspberry Pi and Thinkpad T43, mpd, configuration by editing text files (which you can easily copy from machine to machine).

Windows may support some of this, but not all.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

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