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Not really, considering the main user base of Azure are the Windows/M$ people. Goes to show Linux has truly become the swiss army knife of computing.
by Nux 9y ago
Not really, considering the main user base of Azure are the Windows/M$ people.
Goes to show Linux has truly become the swiss army knife of computing.
- megaman22 9y agoJoke I heard this week was that 2017 is finally the year of the Linux desktop... except its the Linux subsystem embedded in Windows 10 desktops.
- cjsuk 9y agoThe irony of this being is that it sucks bad enough still that I'm using Virtualbox + vagrant on my windows desktop. Windows is a window manager for Chrome, vagrant/vbox, putty. I even use OWA for outlook on windows.
- blinkingled 9y agoWhy not Hyper-V instead of VBOX? Much better in every aspect other than maybe desktop. I wish Linux gained enhanced session support.
- abiox 9y agoin my experience hyper-v doesn't handle graphical stuff very well, so a desktop linux experience much worse than vmware workstation or virtualbox.
- nlawalker 9y agoYeah I miss this as well. I have a Hyper-V Linux VM into which I have mounted a share from the Windows host, and it works great for everything I can do from SSH, but the graphical desktop performance is awful.
- cjsuk 9y agoI've run Hyper-V in production with SCVMM. No thanks. More seriously, it's not portable and not something I want to invest in any further brain-wise. Plus you can't drive half of it with vagrant. I burned about 4 days recently learning that.
- moocowtruck 9y agohey we'll take it however we can get it
- js8 9y agoI bought a Lenovo Miix 320 netbook with Windows 10 that cannot run Ubuntu (which would be my preference, but I pretty much only need Emacs). It's no doubt the worst computer I ever had, counting even ZX Spectrum+. Part of the reason is very bad design of the case, but also the terrible UX of Windows 10 compared to Ubuntu. I think most Windows users would be amazed if they tried Ubuntu. Windows 10 shows significant signs of software senility, which inevitably follows maturity.
- cjsuk 9y agoWindows 8.1 + classic start was the last pinnacle of usability on windows. Ubuntu however isn't anywhere near what we need (yet). Gnome 3 is just vile crack smoking.
- timrichard 9y agoFor anyone more into Vim and Tmux, then i3 fits like a glove. Got it running under Arch on an XPS-13. Best Linux machine I've ever set up, and it looks gorgeous. A lot of fun theming it, with lots of inspiration from : https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/ https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/
- cjsuk 9y agoI tried that but I just can't get used to i3. I spend most of my time in tmux but there are some cases where I just can't make it work for me. I might be a dumbass or just lazy though :)
- dingo_bat 9y agoSame here. I simply cannot work with i3. I think my brain stops working when I try tiling systems. Wish my childhood was not so completely immersed in windows.
- xvilka 9y agoFor quick installation of the usable system I usually use Fedora + KDE environment. It is always updated and KDE is easy to use. On the computers where I do need maximum working performance I do customize awesome (or Xmonad lately) plus many-many terminal applications. But if you don't want to waste your time on heavy customizations - imho, Fedora (27 will be released in a couple days) is a good choice.
- StreamBright 9y agoIt is hard to take seriously anybody who uses M$ outside high school computer club.