Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : Spectre
From : boraxman
Date : Thu Apr 28 2022 23:21:52

 Sp>  bo> I had home users in mind when I was making that statement.  Business 
 Sp>  bo> have different requirements.
 Sp> 
 Sp>  bo> But that was the point I was making, that things like the User Interf
 Sp>  bo> stability, the desktop is what will motivate many.  Sure, some people
 Sp>  bo> Mac because of the availabilty of apps, but many will also talk about
 Sp>  bo> actual hardware as being the reason, the subtle differences in the mo
 Sp>  bo> the way the GUI works, the trackpad, just making graphical work easie
 Sp>  bo> even if the app is the same.
 Sp> 
 Sp> That means you're working on a pretty narrow set of data too.  Was a time
 Sp> most users would have at home whatever they used at work... Windaz...
 Sp> there were exceptions, I know someone that worked at IBM for 27years and
 Sp> always used a Mac at home, but he's more the exception.  However I still
 Sp> believe its horses for courses for the most part rather than this is
 Sp> pretty and easy to use, but it can't do the job I need it to, because
 Sp> there's no software.
 Sp> 
 Sp> Spec

Perhaps.  From people I know, and from people I've spoken to at Linux user grous and free software groups, and anyone else I know who's meddled, it was more the OS itself, rather than available applications which is why they switched.  Stability, freedom, low cost.  The apps they use didn't come up, with the exception of "LAMP", but you can run a webserver on Windows.  It just works different on Linux.

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