Subj : Re: Old computer
To   : Spectre
From : boraxman
Date : Sun Jun 26 2022 22:23:38

 Sp>  At> Linux has never been able to cut it on the desktop which is what this
 Sp>  At> about. Its not about how many tech-calls you get for Windows desktops
 Sp> 
 Sp> Only for those that want to push the bleeding edge on it, and call some
 Sp> of the extra eye candy available indispensible.

The argument that Linux is not ready seems to come from people who have very specific requirements and preferences, and Linux doesn't match them exactly.  I find Windows deficient in many ways, and lacking things that I'm use to in Linux.  Virtual desktop support is only OK, no ability to do anything meaningful without running a GUI, and for that matter, I can't choose my GUI at all.

My wife is a computer noob, and I got her a "new" laptop with Linux, and she can use it just fine.  This is someone who was previously using Macs.  My kids use Linux (Plasma more specifically) just find.
 Sp> I think that goes back to MS-SOD and win 3.11. They were the company
 Sp> everyone loved to hate.  And as they went on they became more and more
 Sp> overbearing. Most MS-SOD stuff was pretty solid for me, you'd get the
 Sp> odd software badly written that'd screw things over... was able to
 Sp> configure 3.11 but never used it... skipped to 95 before I started down
 Sp> that path... the other thing was poor relative performance win 3.x was
 Sp> giving compared to ms-sod.
 Sp> 
 Sp> Spec

They were hated with good reason. Microsoft did engage in some very cruddy practices and in my opinion, ruined computing by focusing on making it for the masses.  They did to computing what the automobile did to cities.

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