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| Subject | Re: The joy of Linux |
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| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
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| From | "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> |
| Organization | wokiesux |
| Date | 2024-11-06 03:35 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <9LicnYvYUKH3t7b6nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@earthlink.com> (permalink) |
On 11/5/24 8:53 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 04/11/2024 22:26, John Ames wrote: >> On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 13:19:25 +0000 >> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote: >> >>> But one has to ask what in fact a desktop OS is for these days. >> >> Any damn thing you please, no walled gardens needed, thankyouverymuch. >> >>> The 'home PC' is now a fondleslab, TV or smartphone. >> >> People have been nattering about "the death of the PC" for upwards of >> twelve years now - and they're still here. >> > Yes, but they are no longer the goto for an IT illiterate consumer. > > A desktop workstation is in use by people in business, by designers, and > by hard core realtime 3D gamers. > > Everything else has gone touchy-feely-crappy. > > That's changed the dynamic of 'what in fact a desktop OS is for these days' > > I didn't mean there wasn't a need for one: Just that as desktops move > into more professional areas, they way they work doesn't need to be so > 'chrome and tailfin' > > Microsoft is keeping the PC market alive by introducing new code that > wont run on old hardware. Apple is the same. > > So the second hand market is flooded with dirt cheap PCS that wont run > win11 or whatever. > > I think this will in the end drive some applications to run on Linux as > well as windows and OSX > > Or windows will as someone else pointed out, be simply a certified WINE > interface. > > The only thing that windows can do, but its a very important thing, is > to runs specialist 3rd party programs. You're not entirely wrong. 'PCs' are heavily 'game' oriented now. With gigabit+ internet in many places MOST ordinary/biz users can get by with the "thin terminal" model. All the real work is done "out there" on some corps supercluster. Back to the 70s ! Which makes them your masters/owners. But few think about that. Like, what could go wrong ? Alas this current, defective, paradigm means that even Linux/Unix servers and workstations get degraded by another notch in the big scheme of things. MIGHT be time to push into a "two worlds" paradigm - "cloud" -vs- "local".
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Re: The joy of Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-29 04:56 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-10-29 18:35 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-30 00:14 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-10-30 01:24 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-10-30 02:00 -0400
Re: The joy of Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-31 02:20 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2024-11-03 19:19 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-03 23:28 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-04 13:19 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-04 22:13 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-11-04 22:33 -0500
Re: The joy of Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-06 23:00 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-11-04 14:26 -0800
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-05 13:53 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-11-06 03:35 -0500
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-06 11:31 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-06 17:59 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-06 18:44 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-06 18:55 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-07 10:40 +0000
OT: (politics) [was Re: The joy of Linux] Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2024-11-08 03:28 +0000
Re: OT: (politics) [was Re: The joy of Linux] The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-08 12:37 +0000
Re: OT: (politics) [was Re: The joy of Linux] Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-11-08 15:50 +0000
Re: OT: (politics) [was Re: The joy of Linux] The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-09 06:01 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-11-06 21:55 +0100
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-07 11:25 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-11-06 21:46 +0100
Re: The joy of Linux Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-11-06 16:43 -0500
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-07 10:50 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-07 01:31 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-07 10:52 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-07 20:10 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-08 03:06 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-08 04:12 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-08 12:43 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-08 18:56 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2024-11-08 22:33 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-09 02:16 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-07 10:45 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-11-07 19:23 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-08 02:46 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-06 22:59 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-11-06 13:20 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-06 14:04 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-11-06 16:49 +0100
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-06 18:40 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-06 18:52 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-11-06 11:14 -0800
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-07 01:18 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-11-06 21:56 +0100
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-07 01:21 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-11-06 21:52 +0100
Re: The joy of Linux Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2024-11-07 05:11 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-07 11:50 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-06 18:09 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-06 18:05 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-11-06 18:17 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-06 19:01 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-11-09 20:37 -0500
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-10 02:38 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-11-10 02:08 -0500
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-10 08:33 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2024-11-10 19:53 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-11 00:29 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-11-10 19:44 -0500
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-11 03:03 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-11-12 01:19 -0500
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-12 07:47 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-11-13 03:19 -0500
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-13 18:30 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-11-14 00:59 -0500
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-12 08:38 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-11-13 03:50 -0500
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-13 08:57 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-11-14 01:08 -0500
Re: The joy of Linux Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-11-14 14:16 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-14 16:06 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-11-14 16:08 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-11-15 03:04 -0500
Re: The joy of Linux "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-11-16 01:04 -0500
Re: The joy of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-11-16 06:13 +0000
Re: The joy of Linux "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-10-30 01:40 -0400
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