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People who shit on Linux, just don't know how to use it. They have no idea what is available with it. Right now, I'm copying a bunch of files from my computer to my friend's remote machine, through a secured network mount. Not using sftp, not using (years ago deprecated) ftp, not using HTML - using what is called SSHFS. The file system acts as if it's local to my machine, but it's going through the Internet. NTFS can't do that, still and what I'm using has been around for 20 years.
I'm locked into Apple's ecosystem
As you say it's marketing but also preference. I could learn a new OS or setup, but it's just not worth it for my needs.
zzyzzx says
Use conservapedia instead.
Hahaha!
https://www.conservapedia.com/Global_warming
There in lies the problem, most people don't know what all of the Linux features are, and would be lost trying to figure them out. Most people wouldn't have the need for what you are doing. In fact the prospect that it is even possible would terrify them to their souls. That someone could remotely log into your computer and download your sexchats with your wife or squeeze on the side.
LInux's biggest failure is the people who tout the most are even INCAPABLE of creating useful apps for it, that the majority of Computer users would want or need.
I love LibreOffice.
I love LibreOffice.
richwicks says
LibreOffice is (mostly) a replacement for it and has been for nearly 2 decades.
https://www.libreoffice.org/
Try it out. LibreOffice started out because Sun Microsystems realized they were spending more money on MS Office than it would take them to build their own. They ended up buying a company called Star Office, and used to sell it. They didn't
This is the most annoying thing with Apple, the fucking thing doesn't interoperate with anything.
This concept that "Apple is more stable / easier / etc" is a myth. It's not.WookieMan says
Coming on 2 decades and I've never had any crash or failure of any type.
richwicks says
This is the most annoying thing with Apple, the fucking thing doesn't interoperate with anything.
I can do anything I need/want to.
No complaints here and it works. Like I said I'm not programming software or doing engineering work. 100% works how I need it to. I'm an A to B guy. Cars, computers, anything. Apple performs in that realm extremely well. More technical, I get how one wouldn't like it as a work machine. Coming on 2 decades and I've never had any crash or failure of any type. I'd take that with any product even if it isn't perfect.
Copy a music file from your iPhone to your computer or from your computer to your iPhone.
richwicks says
Copy a music file from your iPhone to your computer or from your computer to your iPhone.
Lol, Apple does deliberately make it very hard, though not impossible if you put enough work into it and have some tech background.
Hell, just try to get all of your own photos off of your iPhone into a directory on your non-Mac laptop. Really hard.
Or try to get the home directory on your mac to be like /home/patrick Also very hard, though I did manage.
And try to get the Mac to stop creating stoopid litter in your home directory, like the Movies, Music, and Public directories.
The flipside is that I can detect if my linux box has been compromised, good luck determining that with a Windows machine or a MAC.
LibreOffice is (mostly) a replacement for it and has been for nearly 2 decades.
richwicks says
LibreOffice is (mostly) a replacement for it and has been for nearly 2 decades.
I'm not talking just about Office production. In fact, if web browsing and spread sheets were all one needs, then they could get by with Chrome Book.
And do everything in the Google Cloud.
What is a Database management system made for Linux, that has a reasonable GUI? I know there's MySQL but a MS analogue to that would be more like Access and not something like Oracle or Microsoft SQL server. Or I guess I'm looking for consumer quality full featured supported applications. At best you get these open source half assed attempts that many Windows and Apple users try and want to like. But in the end they fall short. They are a huge convoluted mess.
LInux drivers are hard to get for hardware you buy, it's been unnecessarily flawed for so long, because people that use Linux ...
And do everything in the Google Cloud.
What is a Database management system made for Linux, that has a reasonable GUI? I know there's MySQL but a MS analogue to that would be more like Access
LInux drivers are hard to get for hardware you buy, it's been unnecessarily flawed for so long,
If Microsoft(and this is the best thing they've done in almost 20 years.) can run Core binaries and libraries to run on LInux, then these different Distros should all be able to run the same binaries.
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WookieMan says
I'm locked into Apple's ecosystem
It's not an ecosystem.
It's an electronic prison.
I can't even send "vax" critical emails to a friend of mine's apple email - it is scanned and rejected.
richwicks says
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WookieMan says
I'm locked into Apple's ecosystem
It's not an ecosystem.
It's an electronic prison.
I agree with richwicks in that apple is a prison. I can't even send "vax" critical emails to a friend of mine's apple email - it is scanned and rejected. I can only share this kind of stuff via text message, which "they" are already trying to de-anonymyze and censor.
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