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On 31/10/2024 10:02, Pancho wrote:
> FWIW I'm not a traditional Linux/Unix person. When MS Win NT provided a
> proper OS, I dropped Unix and was a MS Fanboi for 25 years. I looked at
> Linux occasionally, but not seriously. Now I think Arm/Linux is about to
> become a serious mass market desktop PC.
Neither was I. I was micro only, except cross compiling on DEC unix on
two jobs.
I then get exposed to unix making it talk over modems. It made a great
server. Especially on PCs - SCO unix was massive value for money, but a
desktop? Dont make me laugh. You needed a sun SPARC at the cheapest to
do that. But a PC with windows was a quarter the price or less.
Staff kept saying that linux was as good as unix, and it was, so it went
into our servers, but there was no real GUI desktop environment to match
windows till the early noughties. I was never a Fanboi - having to
support it showed what a POS it was compared with Unix/Linux but what
else was there?
So when I retired I tried the desktop - around 2005 I think. It was OK
but I still needed a winPC for some apps, Then I messed with virtual box
and installed my old windows PC in that and havent looked back.
I think my first PC was around 1985. So twenty years on DOS.Windows desktops
And now getting on for twenty on Linux. Wow!
--
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all
private property.
Karl Marx
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