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asmi:
--- Quote from: PKTKS on June 11, 2021, 10:23:01 am ---I am using Linux specifically since 90s (was using SCO and HPUX before that)
and since then... I had 0 ZERO issues keeping rolling setups customized by myself..
ZERO issues in some decades is good in time and effort and money...
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Now you are just straight up lying. Not interested in continuing this conversation. Move on.
On topic - if you can go for cross-platform - go for it. But please keep in mind that this move is going to cost you quite a bit of money and time, because you will need to test each and every release in all supported OSes, as well as deal with support cases coming from them. So you will need to think real hard if it makes sense from the business standpoint. Or you can go the way some other software vendors going - don't support it officially, but give users an option of going for it at their own risk. Average Linux user out of necessity is way more PC-literate than Windows or MAC user, so this approach might work and a lot of users will appreciate not locking out that opportunity.
asmi:
--- Quote from: madires on June 11, 2021, 10:42:07 am ---I agree with that, but I didn't mean oddball combinations of software or hardware. For example: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/windows-10-may-update-is-officially-a-disaster. I know of several companies which were effected by the printing problems because they have the "wrong" printers, standard office printers from well known vendors. Talk to IT departments and they will tell your their latest horror story about Windows updates.
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I worked in/with IT departments a lot, so no need to tell me about that. Good IT department always pre-test all updates in a sandbox to make sure they don't break anything - all big companies have a ton of oddball LOB applications which were developed over a decade years ago which they still use, so no sane IT department in it's right might will ever allow direct access to updates without such testing and verification. That's part of their job. So if someone hasn't done it's job, it's not a vendor's fault because you can't realistically expect them to test each and every configuration possible in the world. And as a software developer, I know that even if you test on a 10000 different HW/SW platforms, there is always going to be the 10001st one which won't work for one reason or another.
PKTKS:
--- Quote from: asmi on June 11, 2021, 02:41:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: PKTKS on June 11, 2021, 10:23:01 am ---I am using Linux specifically since 90s (was using SCO and HPUX before that)
and since then... I had 0 ZERO issues keeping rolling setups customized by myself..
ZERO issues in some decades is good in time and effort and money...
--- End quote ---
Now you are just straight up lying. Not interested in continuing this conversation. Move on.
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Thanks for the insult.. but why would I do that?
I have nothing really to gain lying about that...
I started with a SLACKWARE distro around 1993..
and it was (still is) so easy to keep rolling...
That I do have some of that original stuff around..
archives in the file system dated 1992 1993..
some of the stuff requires ancient libc stuff to run...
which I have ditched already...
I have no reason to lie to you or anybody else about a simple fact
like this..
If you never ever tried a Slackware distro.. try one.
You will see for yourself how simple and different it is.
Paul
PKTKS:
I do not like even by chance to be taken by someone
not serious..
So to satisfy the doubts of the issue
Here some shots of MY DESKTOP TODAY
RUNNING STUFF DATED 1993... 1995 ...
perfectly as it was at that time...
OpenLook window manager was the primary stuff running
at 1993... replaced by FVWM at 94.. then FVWM95 at 1995.
And then folks started these KDE GTK and stuff by 2000s
All this stuff is still on my primary workstation as it was 199x..
Running TODAY with KiCAD and some goods..
So make no mistake about myself...
Paul
PS> for the curious.. I can run any of these and a dozen other
window mangers like desktops anytime on any of my systems..
simple result of a clever rolling schema of keeping my systems..
SteveyG:
In the corporate engineering world, it has to be Windows. It just means you can send stuff to clients, or quickly get something onto a laptop for offsite testing etc.
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