Windows 7 was superior in everyway to Linux. 11 is more of a parallel grade program.
Spent hours and hours looking into potentially switching over and I can say without a doubt, Linux is simply for people who talk loud to make themselves look smart.
...And probably pan handle at the nearest highway exit
🤷 Why do that to yourself. Windows is out of the box ready
It really, really sucked back then. Compiling kernels so they would actually run on my hardware, living with terrible gaming because all of the video drivers had to be reverse engineered, really crappy substitute programs that got abandoned.
Yep, went through it all.
But as a professional IT person, I saw that Windows was the number one source of spam from bots. A newly installed Windows 7 box that was exposed to the Internet would become a bot server in minutes.
Where as Ubuntu listened on zero ports with the default install.
And now, when I can run Office 365 software in a browser, when Steam has Proton and runs games reliable enough that they are making bank selling a Linux device to run Windows games, when Windows 11 is basically an app for Microsoft to spy on you and sell your data and push their spam at you...
A Linux Mint desktop, on hardware that was thoughtfully chosen, simply works.
@WilhelmIII@Omega_Variant@The_Almighty_Kek@tyler@verita84eva Been using Linux (started with Slackware -- 14 3.5" floppies (or flippies, as we sometimes called them)) since 1995. Started using the "Mother's Day" release of Red Hat Linux (version 3.0.3) on an Digital Alpha UDB (aka Multia) when I discovered Red Hat before anyone knew who they were. (Dammit. Just missed Mother's Day release being a strange synchronicity.)
Yes, it was painful, but I was a system administrator using various company's versions of Unix and actually had an OSF/1 (later Digital Unix) desktop at work. So it was my job to get things working. When Linux came along it was just a natural to put it on my company issued laptop.
Never used anything since (except for 4 months I won't talk about). Where I am now, the company supports Windows and Mac. I use Fedora Linux. Linux is 'tolerated' but not supported. I've had my share of small problems going against the grain. But especially lately, I've heard so many gripes from my coworkers about the problems they are having with their company issued desktops or laptops, that I've started to tell them that I don't want to hear any more nonsense from them about "why do you bother using Linux because it's too much work to keep things working with company infrastructure?" Yeah. About that, you sycophants.
@verita84eva@Omega_Variant@The_Almighty_Kek@WilhelmIII@tyler I don't need to imagine it. I've been doing that for decades. Still do it today. Loving how easy it is. I have so little to do for them.
@verita84eva@Omega_Variant@The_Almighty_Kek@WilhelmIII@tyler So would I, but assholes in management everywhere I've worked think Windows is da bomb, even when it bombs and fucks up critical functions.
Every time one I'm interested in that might support the idea, they sell out to the jew 'going public' psyop and that inexplicably means squashing technological innovation.
I do have one windows pc in my office. It runs quickbooks, so I get that.
I do recall seeing something recently that allows windows applications to be ran in their own windows, but in vm (not wine). My memory may be bad though.
I think the key would be cloning a central system that's fixed. I think the problems start to arise when different people have different setups. Thus, I'd make the build as robust as possible to avoid having a bunch of user specific issues. Companies do this with windows VMs and thin clients all the time.
But I get the issue you're pointing at. Trust me. I have about 20 computers running various builds, some general use, some for specific purposes. It is a bit of work to maintain, though I've automated a bit via cron.
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