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I get (and hate) the fact that Microsoft is pushing hard for the desktop to become a light client integrated in their cloud, but isn’t apple doing exactly the s

by cm2187 4y ago

I get (and hate) the fact that Microsoft is pushing hard for the desktop to become a light client integrated in their cloud, but isn’t apple doing exactly the same? I don’t own a mac but my iphone nags me all the time to use apple’s cloud services for everything and I understand apple is making MacOS converge to iOS. The obstacle to switching to linux for me is not too many distributions, it is that I have to relearn everything, from my way to the filesystem, how drivers and networking work, virtualisation, web servers, etc. And linux is many things, but intuitive and self discoverable it is not. I just don’t have the time for starting from scratch (and it’s not related to my day job either), until windows becomes really user hostile (I see it coming but not yet there).

night-rider 4y ago
Make the time. It’s worth it I promise. The freedom that comes with Linux is astonishing. I’ve been using it for a decade now and haven’t looked back. ‘If you want to move mountains you start by picking up small stones’
fnord123 4y ago
> until windows becomes really user hostile (I see it coming but not yet there You are a boiled frog.
pjmlp 4y ago
So now Microsoft gets the hate for reviving the UNIX way of working. How do you think companies were using X Windows?
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  > How do you think companies were using X Windows? By attaching thin clients to a server that was still under their own control, as opposed to making the whole company a serf to Microsoft.
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    Being a serf of UNIX vendors has always been a thing.
    - Koshkin 4y ago
      Linux has stopped that.
      - pjmlp 4y ago
        I would check whose paychecks do most Linux contributions, and then there is the Cloud.
everybodyknows 4y ago
This is a simple factual account of lived experience by someone not, yet, a Linux user -- as such, it deserves upvotes not downvotes. > ... intuitive and self discoverable it is not. As a multi-decade Linux coder, I fully concur.

by cm2187 4y ago

night-rider 4y ago

Make the time. It’s worth it I promise. The freedom that comes with Linux is astonishing. I’ve been using it for a decade now and haven’t looked back. ‘If you want to move mountains you start by picking up small stones’

fnord123 4y ago

> until windows becomes really user hostile (I see it coming but not yet there You are a boiled frog.

pjmlp 4y ago

So now Microsoft gets the hate for reviving the UNIX way of working. How do you think companies were using X Windows?

yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
> How do you think companies were using X Windows? By attaching thin clients to a server that was still under their own control, as opposed to making the whole company a serf to Microsoft.
- pjmlp 4y ago
  Being a serf of UNIX vendors has always been a thing.
  - Koshkin 4y ago
    Linux has stopped that.
    - pjmlp 4y ago
      I would check whose paychecks do most Linux contributions, and then there is the Cloud.

everybodyknows 4y ago

This is a simple factual account of lived experience by someone not, yet, a Linux user -- as such, it deserves upvotes not downvotes. > ... intuitive and self discoverable it is not. As a multi-decade Linux coder, I fully concur.