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Re: Knoppix Operating System :-)

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On 11/11/2023 10:57 AM, Joel wrote:
> Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I don't think the general public has the newest best computers at home.
>> Their computers are like their cars. In the streets, most cars are not
>> new. And only once in a while you notice a Ferrari among them. Much more
>> often than seeing Ferraris, you see cars 15 or even 20 years old. I
>> think their computers at home are also like that.
> 
> 
> This is why Linux is poised to gain market share on the desktop,
> Microsoft is requiring a frantic pace of hardware upgrades.
> 
> 
>> And I began this thread because I think Windows is kind of a
>> cantankerous OS for the general public.
> 
> 
> Definitely.
> 
> 
>> Example. Last weekend, I installed Windows from scratch on an empty HDD
>> in one of my computers to test a graphics card in Windows. I swear, by
>> the time it was relatively ready for me, I had grown at least an extra
>> 1/8th of an inch of beard on my face, and it'd gone way past my bed
>> time. Next morning, it still wouldn't let me comfortably use it under
>> bombardments of a hundred different non-essential features that it
>> wanted to impose on me. It's the craziest computer experience that a
>> member of general public has to go through at home. So Windows is not
>> for the general public.
>>
>> Right now, I am testing Knoppix to see if that suffices. And if it does,
>> then under what conditions and resources.
> 
> 
> Phones seem to have supplanted the PC as the device of choice.
> 

Computer makers should begin making a distinction between their business 
market and their general public market. They're still leaving this 
needed demand to the big tech, not themselves. And big tech can only 
make various flavors of the same cantankerous product, "Home", "Pro", 
"Enterpirse", ... because they're not interested in removing their 
product from general market no matter what it's doing to people's 
nerves. They pack the "Home" version with literally hundreds of features 
that amount to making the computer just another medium for incessant 
advertising.

So it is the responsibility of the computer maker to meet that need, 
creating two lines of computers, one for business and one for the public.

The ones for business market can have anything under the sky in them, 
including 3 days of installations and updates till computer is ready to 
serve. "IT guys" of businesses do that over the weekends for them. But 
the ones for the public should come without even internal storage 
devices. It should be high in RAM capacity, and the package would 
include a high capacity high speed external SSD using the USB interface, 
with Knoppix on it! This is what serves best for the public. And it 
would perhaps be even much cheaper both for the computer maker and for 
the public. They wouldn't have to pay big tech anything for each 
computer they sell, and they wouldn't need to equip it with expensive 
internal storage.

Either Knoppix or something similar (tens of them around) should be on 
that external SSD that comes with the computer, complete with just one 
page of cheatsheet to use it.

I don't trust the portable ones that are developed inside USA. I may be 
a bit paranoid about it, but I think there is a distinct probability 
that such an OS is insidiously designed to frustrate the user, so they'd 
bounce back to machines with internal storage and Windows and other 
"cantankerous" OS's on them. That's why I suggest Knoppix. Big tech, or 
any of your "Putin"s around the world, couldn't touch its development.

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  Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2023-11-08 19:29 -0500
    Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2023-11-08 17:53 -0700
  Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) Physfit Freak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2023-11-09 11:36 -0500
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        Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2023-11-16 18:19 -0600
          Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2023-11-17 00:12 -0500
            Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2023-11-17 21:57 -0600
              Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2023-11-17 23:11 -0500
                Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2023-11-20 18:06 -0600
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            Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2023-11-17 19:32 -0600
      Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2023-11-10 19:18 -0500
        Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2023-11-10 19:19 -0600
          Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2023-11-10 19:23 -0600
            Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2023-11-10 20:36 -0500
              Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2023-11-10 21:32 -0600
                Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2023-11-11 11:57 -0500
                Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2023-11-11 13:37 -0600
                Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> - 2023-11-11 15:16 -0600
                Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2023-11-11 16:51 -0500
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  Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2023-11-09 09:37 -0500

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