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I still believe that but we went past the mark and dissolved our communities into the same pitfalls as the commercial software. I consider windows 7, office 20
by batou 11y ago
I still believe that but we went past the mark and dissolved our communities into the same pitfalls as the commercial software.
I consider windows 7, office 2010 and conversely Ubuntu pre-Unity with libreoffice to both hit the mark perfectly. Stuff just worked and we had control over our data. That was the last software I needed. Since then I've been dragged forwards into the future, the cloud and all the things that it brings.
Now it's going backwards again and we're losing control.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't improve but that was feature peak.
- walterbell 11y agoFortunately, virtualization lets you run old operating systems on modern hardware.
- keithpeter 11y agoAnd CentOS 6 with the epel and nux-desktop repositories enabled has support until 2020 (relating to the pre-Unity Ubuntu reference). And you can have MATE on current stable Debian and not notice the difference. But I think the OA was talking more about the network and what we reveal through it rather than the client devices we use.