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Halcyon:

--- Quote from: eti on December 29, 2019, 03:38:27 am ---
--- Quote from: james_s on December 28, 2019, 08:02:33 am ---MacOS and iOS are already close relatives to Linux and Android is Linux. Outside of Microsoft, most of the tech industry and the vast majority of the internet back end runs on Linux. The only place that Linux is not absolutely dominant is the consumer and corporate desktop.

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 :-DD :-DD :-DD :-DD :-DD :-DD :-DD :-DD  :palm:

Android USES Linux (The Colonel [Sanders]) - apart from that, it is UTTER TRASH.

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Unfortunately the alternatives are worse. Windows Phone, enough said and iOS is like going back to drawing with eating crayons.
I wanted a rude username:
"Drawing with" is charitable.  ;D

james_s:

--- Quote from: Bud on December 28, 2019, 08:15:22 pm ---7. Non-intuitive
8. One's software breaks other people's software
9. Nightmare to install programs and know where that shit went in the filesystem
10. Anything else I did not have time to write about.

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What? Windows? Sounds about right.

I got so sick of fixing Windows on my mom's computer that I threw Ubuntu Linux on there around 3 years ago as an experiment and it has gone astonishingly well. It just works, I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to mess with it since. Every once in a while I run apt-get update to update everything, other than that it runs her browser, email client, word processor and spreadsheet, she can print her invoices and write her newsletter. Works great and saves me a lot of hassle.

I spent the first decade of my career working at Microsoft and at the time I loved Windows but the affair is over, it has devolved into a mess. Looks like a few linux haters have shown up here though, you can tell the people who haven't looked at it in 20 years and don't realize things have changed.
james_s:

--- Quote from: eti on December 29, 2019, 03:38:27 am ---
--- Quote from: james_s on December 28, 2019, 08:02:33 am ---MacOS and iOS are already close relatives to Linux and Android is Linux. Outside of Microsoft, most of the tech industry and the vast majority of the internet back end runs on Linux. The only place that Linux is not absolutely dominant is the consumer and corporate desktop.

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 :-DD :-DD :-DD :-DD :-DD :-DD :-DD :-DD  :palm:

Android USES Linux (The Colonel [Sanders]) - apart from that, it is UTTER TRASH.

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What are you? 12?

Android is linux based, are you saying that's not true or are you having difficulty with reading comprehension?

I'm not a fan of Android and don't use it myself but it is the most widely used consumer operating system by a wide margin. Currently on about 2.5 Billion devices it dwarfs all other consumer operating systems combined.
taydin:

--- Quote from: Bud on December 28, 2019, 08:15:22 pm ---7. Non-intuitive
8. One's software breaks other people's software
9. Nightmare to install programs and know where that shit went in the filesystem
10. Anything else I did not have time to write about.

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You've got it backwards for items 8, 9  :D Those are exactly attributes of Windows OS.

8. This issue was called "DLL Hell" under Windows. Microsoft's attempt at solving this was using DLL assemblies and manifests. Linux never had the "overwriting of common libraries" issue. Libraries under Linux were versioned since their first inception.
9. Perfect description of the situation under Windows. Try to install a MS Visual Studio and then obtain a list of what was installed where. But all package managers under Linux can give you this list on demand!
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