03-07-2017, 04:01 PM
Lots of misinfo...
Windows is actually gaining market share again, heading surely back above 90% of the market, and Linux in general, is losing market share dipping back below 2%. Really? Do we think Windows is going to fall to some massive Linux takeover? Silly.
Windows 10 is quite stable, much more so than its predecessors. There certainly are things you can do to eliminate most problems. Use the included MS Edge web browser, and purchase a Kaspersky full protection suite (around $80) and you're unlikely to have any problems at all. Many of the problems with video and so forth are caused by using other browsers.
Linux has come a long way, but simply put for most users it should be looked on as an auxiliary system to Windows, able to network with Windows, because that is generally the necessary case anyway. Linux development should certainly focus on all possible improvements to cross platform networking capability, or resign itself to a very minor future in personal computing.
As long as Intel, and other OEMs continue to contract with and design for Windows, the niche left for Linux will not grow much. Windows computing itself, even in the Enterprise end is headed for cloud arrays. That is the certain future of personal home computing. Login to access your cloud operating system for a monthly fee. The foundation of this is not ready yet (the underlying infrastructure of necessary cables and access providers and so forth) and though LTE networks are fun for cell users, they cannot bear the bandwidth of such an interactive business cloud software. Businesses and Institutions want to be rid of security concerns altogether and proprietary cloud computing is the simplest viable solution for this. I am a freelance network admin. and I get work because my rate is considerably below in house MS IT rates, and most of it lately is institutional, hospitals etc. changing out servers etc. because it's cheaper to deal with MS over the phone, rather than have an MS tech fly in from his beach house. The pressure on MS is from institutions and businesses, a market share they utterly dominate. One of my best friends is an HP medical software technician who deals with cutting edge lab equipment daily. He used to make service calls at $500 an hour. Now he gets a salary and gives out directions over the phone. Hardly ever leaves his beach house home office. Everything about computing is consolidating toward proprietary networks and server arrays, not expanding in other directions at all. An MS proprietary computing network is inevitable.
My server is Debian, and I am writing this on a Debian home PC, but I have a Windows 10 system at home, and a few in the office as well. I do all of my important writing and editing on my Debian stable computer, because I often have to deal with documents of over a million words and editing that size document is a more stable activity on my Debian system than in Windows. That said, I think Linux Lite is by far the easiest system for a new user to keep up with, and quite functional for home computing, and that is why I recommend it to people who want get into Linux.
TC
Windows is actually gaining market share again, heading surely back above 90% of the market, and Linux in general, is losing market share dipping back below 2%. Really? Do we think Windows is going to fall to some massive Linux takeover? Silly.
Windows 10 is quite stable, much more so than its predecessors. There certainly are things you can do to eliminate most problems. Use the included MS Edge web browser, and purchase a Kaspersky full protection suite (around $80) and you're unlikely to have any problems at all. Many of the problems with video and so forth are caused by using other browsers.
Linux has come a long way, but simply put for most users it should be looked on as an auxiliary system to Windows, able to network with Windows, because that is generally the necessary case anyway. Linux development should certainly focus on all possible improvements to cross platform networking capability, or resign itself to a very minor future in personal computing.
As long as Intel, and other OEMs continue to contract with and design for Windows, the niche left for Linux will not grow much. Windows computing itself, even in the Enterprise end is headed for cloud arrays. That is the certain future of personal home computing. Login to access your cloud operating system for a monthly fee. The foundation of this is not ready yet (the underlying infrastructure of necessary cables and access providers and so forth) and though LTE networks are fun for cell users, they cannot bear the bandwidth of such an interactive business cloud software. Businesses and Institutions want to be rid of security concerns altogether and proprietary cloud computing is the simplest viable solution for this. I am a freelance network admin. and I get work because my rate is considerably below in house MS IT rates, and most of it lately is institutional, hospitals etc. changing out servers etc. because it's cheaper to deal with MS over the phone, rather than have an MS tech fly in from his beach house. The pressure on MS is from institutions and businesses, a market share they utterly dominate. One of my best friends is an HP medical software technician who deals with cutting edge lab equipment daily. He used to make service calls at $500 an hour. Now he gets a salary and gives out directions over the phone. Hardly ever leaves his beach house home office. Everything about computing is consolidating toward proprietary networks and server arrays, not expanding in other directions at all. An MS proprietary computing network is inevitable.
My server is Debian, and I am writing this on a Debian home PC, but I have a Windows 10 system at home, and a few in the office as well. I do all of my important writing and editing on my Debian stable computer, because I often have to deal with documents of over a million words and editing that size document is a more stable activity on my Debian system than in Windows. That said, I think Linux Lite is by far the easiest system for a new user to keep up with, and quite functional for home computing, and that is why I recommend it to people who want get into Linux.
TC
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