Or just search Google. The reviews on sites like Newegg or Amazon might also indicate Linux friendliness or just the general level of quality. Then there are sites like Phoronix.
In other words: Just search Google. It's not 1996.
Someone mentioned System76. There's also Zareason.
A Cobol guy? Really. He's going to have far too much stuff to UNLEARN before he's going to be useful as a Java programmer. It's like you are starting with a fresh graduate but with ton of baggage added. It's very unlikely that any of his experience will be relevant to the new role. He also may never be able to make the conceptual shift to a different kind of language.
What you are describing is using a spreadsheet as a development environment. For a non-IT person, this is obviously absurd. Even for an licensed engineer it's a little silly.
Why even bother using Windows if you have to do stupid hacks like that?
Where's all the great 3rd party software that's supposed to exist for Windows.
Exactly. This sounds like some kind of secretary. It's kind of along the lines of secretaries needing to know Word Perfect. The rest of us really couldn't care less. It simply doesn't matter.
The usual Lemming braying is really irrelevant for most people.
This is especially true for anyone that has any serious degree of training.
They also likely don't use any features advanced enough that you actually need to use msoffice yourself. If there are any "issues" those are just as likely to occur regardless of whether or not you are running a "genuine" copy.
There are also industries that have moved away from office formats for various reasons.
You don't actually need msoffice to communicate with msoffice users. This is just FUD perpetrated by people that sound like paid shills but sadly aren't (paid).
> I'm glad that the Linux desktop has this feature after being on AppleOS and Windows for only about ten years.
+...with loads of caveats.
And yet, this is still a relatively obscure feature. So the idea that your typical user will be "running off into the night" after 10 minutes is rather unwarranted.
Most people will be shocked that you can do this sort of thing with any OS.
You need reasonable precision so that you don't end up nuking some relatively empty bit of desert or tundra or simply dumping your nuke in the ocean.
It will be a very long time before they can field enough weapons that are reliable enough to actually do some damage before their own palaces are turned into glass.
All this does is raise the stakes and give better armed enemies the pretense to clean house for good.
The Iranian and North Korean governments are a bunch of nutbags with or without the ability to rain down destruction on the rest of the planet. Not every space shot induces panic. Not every country is as stupid or as evil as the worst example you can find.
It's also important to note that the original space race was far from benign. Sputnik was a side venture of the Soviet ICBM program and the main American efforts were also military in nature.
The people that are the most hysterical probably have a properly grounded historical perspective.
You and him both would have been burnt as heretics.
You didn't even have to be an atheist. All you had to do is fail to completely toe the party line. Any bible translation you own would also be enough to send you to the gallows.
The very concept is just wrongful. It's already a species that doesn't do well farmed. You end up with an inferior product. Taking that a step further and introducing genetic meddling just seems silly.
Compound one bit of stupidity with another...
What happens when the patented fish contaminates the wild stock? Will fishermen be subject to the Monsanto effect? Will fishermen need a patent license to fish? Will fish farmers be stuck not able to breed their own fish?
It's like I just got out of a hot tub time machine and it's 1995.
Glacially slow development in GNU projects? That's not new.
Linux would not exist without the annoying aspects of GNU and the FSF. They would have made their own kernel in a timely fashion and Linus may never have been motivated to make his own.
In other news: water is wet and apples fall out of trees.
They sold kits in the old days. They even sold kits with various themes and special (non-brick) parts.
All of this nostalgia and angst is misplaced. These people are running off on a tangent based on some idealized notion of the past rather than what actaully happened.
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Or just search Google. The reviews on sites like Newegg or Amazon might also indicate Linux friendliness or just the general level of quality. Then there are sites like Phoronix.
In other words: Just search Google. It's not 1996.
Someone mentioned System76. There's also Zareason.
Once again: Just search Google. It's not 1996.
A Cobol guy? Really. He's going to have far too much stuff to UNLEARN before he's going to be useful as a Java programmer. It's like you are starting with a fresh graduate but with ton of baggage added. It's very unlikely that any of his experience will be relevant to the new role. He also may never be able to make the conceptual shift to a different kind of language.
...except there are still the LEGAL requirements to consider and having non-IT guys play cowboy circumvent those controls.
If you let people run amok too much, the regulatory backlash ends up being far worse than whatever regulations you were originally complaining about.
What you are describing is using a spreadsheet as a development environment. For a non-IT person, this is obviously absurd. Even for an licensed engineer it's a little silly.
Why even bother using Windows if you have to do stupid hacks like that?
Where's all the great 3rd party software that's supposed to exist for Windows.
Managing a business with msoffice? Really.
What you are describing is the sort of thing that's usually belittled and laughed at by those of us above the level of secretary.
Exactly. This sounds like some kind of secretary. It's kind of along the lines of secretaries needing to know Word Perfect. The rest of us really couldn't care less. It simply doesn't matter.
The usual Lemming braying is really irrelevant for most people.
This is especially true for anyone that has any serious degree of training.
They also likely don't use any features advanced enough that you actually need to use msoffice yourself. If there are any "issues" those are just as likely to occur regardless of whether or not you are running a "genuine" copy.
There are also industries that have moved away from office formats for various reasons.
You don't actually need msoffice to communicate with msoffice users. This is just FUD perpetrated by people that sound like paid shills but sadly aren't (paid).
I've actually used what MacOS has to offer in this regard.
No thanks.
> I'm glad that the Linux desktop has this feature after being on AppleOS and Windows for only about ten years.
+...with loads of caveats.
And yet, this is still a relatively obscure feature. So the idea that your typical user will be "running off into the night" after 10 minutes is rather unwarranted.
Most people will be shocked that you can do this sort of thing with any OS.
You need reasonable precision so that you don't end up nuking some relatively empty bit of desert or tundra or simply dumping your nuke in the ocean.
It will be a very long time before they can field enough weapons that are reliable enough to actually do some damage before their own palaces are turned into glass.
All this does is raise the stakes and give better armed enemies the pretense to clean house for good.
The Iranian and North Korean governments are a bunch of nutbags with or without the ability to rain down destruction on the rest of the planet. Not every space shot induces panic. Not every country is as stupid or as evil as the worst example you can find.
It's also important to note that the original space race was far from benign. Sputnik was a side venture of the Soviet ICBM program and the main American efforts were also military in nature.
The people that are the most hysterical probably have a properly grounded historical perspective.
You and him both would have been burnt as heretics.
You didn't even have to be an atheist. All you had to do is fail to completely toe the party line. Any bible translation you own would also be enough to send you to the gallows.
The very concept is just wrongful. It's already a species that doesn't do well farmed. You end up with an inferior product. Taking that a step further and introducing genetic meddling just seems silly.
Compound one bit of stupidity with another...
What happens when the patented fish contaminates the wild stock? Will fishermen be subject to the Monsanto effect? Will fishermen need a patent license to fish? Will fish farmers be stuck not able to breed their own fish?
It's like I just got out of a hot tub time machine and it's 1995.
Glacially slow development in GNU projects? That's not new.
Linux would not exist without the annoying aspects of GNU and the FSF. They would have made their own kernel in a timely fashion and Linus may never have been motivated to make his own.
In other news: water is wet and apples fall out of trees.
The leading DBMSs?
Those are likely older than you are.
Probably not as much C++ in there as you think.
> lol AIX who uses that shit
Employers.
They sold kits in the old days. They even sold kits with various themes and special (non-brick) parts.
All of this nostalgia and angst is misplaced. These people are running off on a tangent based on some idealized notion of the past rather than what actaully happened.
That may true and understood to you, or to me, but it is unlikely to be understood by the hysterical teacher that started this mess.
Your or I would educate ourselves.
The professional educator would not bother.
Search your own local perverts and see what they are supposed to have done.
> It's called consequences.
That's what prison is for.
Their "debt to society" is already paid.
You are preventing them from engaging in commerce and public life.
It's basically Amish shunning or Hawthorne's Scarlet letter but without the obvious initial "buy in" of joining an extremist religious cult first.
The sacred cow will ensure the precedent is set in general so that it can be applied to YOU next time.
The fact that we are repeating the insanity does not make it any more sane. All it really demonstrates is that we fail to learn from history.
Both Unix and MS-DOS derivatives owe their existence to the fact that IBM and AT&T were operating under consent decrees.
Without the fact that IBM got slapped down by federal regulators the face of computing as you know it would not exist.
You should tell that to the Pharoahs or any other dynasty. Clearly they did not get the message.
Most "civilized people" really have no clue what is natural and what pure instinct will allow for. It would blow their uptight little minds.
> I payed $300 to upgrade my Mac Mini's drive to an 256 GB SSD. Therefore prices haven't changed in three years. ...and they never will.