10-04-2020, 12:27 AM
(10-02-2020, 04:48 PM)Mister Obvious Wrote: Well that's always sort of been the personality and essence of Linux.
Yeah. GNU programs aren't commercial products, so there's neither a marketing budget nor a financial incentive to give them mass appeal. Nevertheless, they're on par with their commercial rivals.
To be fair, some Windows and Mac programs have stupid names too. God only knows what "excel" has to do with spreadsheets. Some Mac programs, such as Text Wrangler, have a trippy-hippie lingo of their own that I can't be arsed to learn just to edit a text file. I'd rather use vim.
What if Windows itself switched to Linux though? There's talk of Microsoft ditching the NT kernel and releasing future versions of Windows as an NT compatibility layer running on a custom Linux distro. Linux has already been doing this for 27 years with Wine, so most of the code has been written for free.
Will Microsoft turn Windows 10 into a yet another Linux distro?
Gardiner Bryant
And, of course, the Macintosh has been running Unix since the release of OS X in 2001.
Soooooo...
Since you're going to be running some variant of Unix no matter which way you go, you may as well use the one that won't nickle and dime you to death, spy on you, or intentionally render your hardware obsolete after a few years.
