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  1. Aug 20th, 2016, 09:59 AM #1
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    Windows ? vs linux ...if not coding

    Since I am not coding these days, more configuring and installing, why does one need Windows ?

    I Pulled an old Dell off the shelve , created an ISO DVD from ubuntu
    answered a few questions, multiple boot=no, format disk=yes. Waited , had dinner, and Linux was loaded.
    Browser, Word, Excel, Email ...and I was ready to visit the WWW again.

    Am I missing something ?

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    Re: Windows ? vs linux ...if not coding

    I think you're missing the fact that noone ever said you needed Windows in the first place. If you want Windows then install Windows. If you want Linux then install Linux. If you want Mac OS then buy a Mac. The only reason that you'd need Windows specifically is that you want to run software that only runs on Windows specifically.
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    Re: Windows ? vs linux ...if not coding

    The other problem is that there isn't such a thing as "Linux" anyway, at least not as an OS. Linux is merely a kernel and a few libraries.

    When you buy into a so-called Linux distribution you are buying into one of hundreds if not thousands of different OSs built on top of Linux and piles of other common libraries. Each one can have a radically different GUI, some even offer more than one, and each Linux-based OS change changes its GUI(s) even more often than Windows does.

    So trying to use a desktop Linux distribution is a perpetual game of learning and relearning how to do simple things, without enough stability to ever get good at hard things.

    It's trap!

    Plus, no applications - unless you really may as well be using a tablet anyway, where there are even more and better apps in the first place.
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