On 6/1/18 8:36 AM, oOze wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 08:16:07 -0700, Mike Easter
wrote:

ooze wrote:
I'll be honest with you though: I don't like any of the operating
systems on the market more than I do Linux. Windows and Mac OS' lack
of customization bother me as well as their insistence on essentially
slowing down the operating system to help manufacturers sell more
computers and processors. Linux is better in that respect despite the
many bugs but it's the attitude of the people using it that constantly
alienates me. You people are like fanatical Muslims in that any word
critical of your operating system is reason enough to behead the
person who speaks it.

Some people obsess on 'my OS is better than your OS' wars. Personally I
got over that after the Atari ST vs Amiga wars.

Many many people use both Win and linux for one thing and another; and
Chrome OS and/or android for another thing or other.

There is more than one tool in the box.

Exactly. As a teacher in a private school which decided to use
AppleTVs to stream content from an iPad in every classroom, I'm
obligated to use a platform which allows for that streaming to occur.
Since Apple created their own standard, Linux obviously doesn't have
anything available with which to stream my desktop or its documents to
the AppleTV since I choose not to use their iPad. Windows has one
called AirParrot which enables me to do my work so I'm using Windows.
It also has Blu-Ray playback software if I choose to play a movie and
decent applications for every other task. This doesn't mean that Linux
is bad, but it lacks in third-party software which enhances the
functionality of the operating system itself. Win for Windows there.

Of course, that doesn't make Windows better; it simply makes Windows
better for me in that one specific area. If I had to choose between
the three and my workplace were ready to adapt to my decisions, Linux
would likely be the first choice. However, I'm just an employee and as
such have to adapt myself to _them_. Windows allows me a degree of
freedom (not to use the iPad) all the while adapting to the context
(using the AppleTV). Linux offers me no freedom in that specific
respect.

However, I stand by what I said about Linux: it is my favourite
operating system but the great amount of delusion it seems to foster
in its users doesn't affect me. It is flawed, buggy and the flawed,
buggy personalities of its users don't help in advocating its use with
new users.

Excellent advocacy.

I tend to prefer macOS for my primary desktop use, BUT I use Linux in
many other ways. Right now, for example, I have an old TV hooked to a
"dead" iMac -- the hard drive dried and it is old enough where it is not
worth replacing (does not help that Apple is so focused on making their
DESKTOPS thin that they make it a pain to do... idiotic in my view).
Instead of tossing the system, or donating it, I have a USB drive with a
Linux distro on it. I can copy movies over to it or watch NetFlix or the
like with it. Works amazingly well, esp. considering it is an older
computer running from a USB Flash drive!

There is no way I could do that with macOS or Windows, of course.

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