Sorry, but this really is less of a problem than you think.
1. Choose one of the four mainstream distros with Support. (CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, SuSE) 2. Choose one of the more advanced distros (Fedora, Debian, Manjaro etc) 3. Choose one of the bleeding edge experimental distros not fit for production use (Arch, Gentoo etc)
If you are unsure or new, choose 1. If you are used to Linux, choose 2. If you wish to experiment with the latest and greatest, choose 3.
The distros in 1 already made the choices for you, so the vast majority will choose 1, some choose 2, most should stay away from 3. Having one way of distro does not take away from the others.
And yes, Linux is objectively User Friendly. It's just not what you're used to. So if user friendly is defined as what I am used to then no, it is not.
If all else fails, these days you can make a GPU passthrough solution that lets you run Windows VM + AutoCAD software and nothing else. This at least decreases your security threat vectors.
It does require an extra GPU, but the good news are that you could use a Quadro card (or AMD equiv) for the passthrough and a regular GPU card for your host system.
Most people would disagree with you including Microsoft themselves.
Also, seems to me you are comparing a special built Ubuntu-derivative with a non-standard file system that had no business running on a production server in the first place with a commercial grade OS.
Third, there isn't a million viable Linux distros, but four distros that give reliable paid server support; Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS and SuSE. Everything else is to be considered as experimental/non-supported and should be avoided unless you really know what you are doing.
This stopped being true with the advent of Multi-Core and FPGAs. If the world is still clinging to this belief, then no wonder most programmers cannot code multi-threaded programs.
Why not simply go to Mint directly then? You're simply delaying the inevitable, and chances are good that when push comes to shove, you'll grumble a bit about Windows 10 and... Switch to it, grudgingly, because it is the only thing you can run that satisfies your criteria.
There's literally no reason not to be running Linux now, unless you have a very specific program you cannot run under Linux for some reason. If that software is a game, then you are saying a game is more important than your privacy. If it's work-related, then it's somewhat more tolerable, but regardless you should try to find a way anyhow. That software will not be ported unless you switch to Linux.
Yes, Apple is one of the only tech companies caring about your privacy.
It is also one of the worst offenders to seeing their customers as big bags of money they need to squeeze every single penny out of - as well as trapping them in a walled amusement park filled with amazing wonders.
I'd much rather go with, say, Canonical or Red Hat, or go full communist with Debian...
Battery life: Mine has several days worth, a mid-end Lenovo P2. If you really want to though you can flip an actual physical switch that makes the phone go down into a battery saving mode that lasts for up to 8 days (200 hours), where you can only do calls, calendar and SMS.
If I use the phone as a GPS then yes, it drains within 8-10 hours, though.
FFFP reader: They are coming, baked into the screen.
And there is no reason you cannot do the same things as Apple watch in an Android offering, it's just that it is a very, *very* niche market, require quite some research, and yes I do believe Apple could have a killer product if they would only let me pair up the Watch to an Android device. As it stands it is pretty much useless to me though.
1. Decentralised DNS. The DNS crew have shown they cannot be trusted to 100%, which is a really bad thing when it comes to free speech online. Perhaps a bitcoin style ledger could be of help here.
2. A decentralised social network solution with monetisation options. Think about it, Youtube and Facebook rolled into one for all sorts of content imaginable, a pay-as-you-go buffet where you can choose whether to pay with your eyeballs, your time, or your money. Awesome stuff if it ever get started.
3. The realisation that the web of the nineties, where everyone and their grandma could make a website, is pretty much dead. And no, I do not mourn those Geocities webpages, I rather mourn the fact that it is way too hard to get stuff online without selling your firstborn son to one of the big dragons (Google, Facebook etc).
Guess I'll keep dreaming of these things forever though...
1. You are assuming all drivers are either binary or shit. This is not the case, and in fact, Linux does not need 95% of the binary drivers Windows does. Gaming Mice and keyboards? Bundled with the kernel. USB 3.0 Drivers? Bundled. In fact, in the Linux world, it is far more common not having to install driver packs from third-party vendors, which is a good thing.
2. Even if a binary driver is necessary, Linux allows for wrappers. These wrappers provide the stable binary interface required for your specific driver while keeping itself up-to-date for the kernel. nVidia is one company going this route, there are others available.
3. Radeon GPUs are eating nVidias lunch in the world of Open Source Linux. The FOSS drivers are almost on par with the closed source Radeon drivers, proving that no, it is not really necessary with closed drivers anymore.
What *is* happening is that some popular distros are dropping 32 bit *install images* - because more or less nobody use those systems anymore, except for neckbeards like me.
The last Pentium III chip ever created was released in 2001.
2001. That is 17 years ago. Last computer built with this ancient technology is probably from 2005, over ten years ago. Much of the hardware machinery, such as mechanical drives and fans, should've stopped working by now. If they miraculously still work, Linux is a prime candidate to run on this super-old system for that last mileage.
Face it, Windows 7 is on it's death bed, and if you do not like it, go Linux or go home.:)
Though I sure hope you replaced those 3D-printed parts with something a bit more lasting once the prototype stage was done.
My experience with 3D printed stuff is that they are like duct tape - great for short-term on the fly projects and prototypes, but just like duct tape, you don't want to rely on it too much.
So, your software package for "Linux" runs on Android/Linux then? Or is guaranteed to run on Azure/Linux?
I get where you are coming from, but Android is not compatible with "Desktop" Linux or "Server" Linux.
I recently started to use GNU/Linux in order to differentiate it from the other aforementioned operating systems, but to be fair, it is a crutch and as I said in a different comment thread, I welcome any suggestions for names that encompass the GNU/Wayland/Linux/systemd userspace. Would be GNU/X/Linux/systemd, but what is the point in renaming a software that is soon going to die anyhow...
No, it does not really matter if we call it Linux or GNU/Linux.
Except, these days, GNU/Linux is not the only Linux based operating system in town. I count at least four different major flavors, those being GNU/Linux, Android/Linux, systemd/Linux and now recently Azure/Linux.
Except, as many has pointed out, there is also GNU/BSD, BSD/Linux, et cetera. So, calling it Linux doesn't really say anything anymore. Linux could be Android. Or Azure. Or heck, even BSD.
What I do know is that we need to come up with something new to call this systemd/wayland/Linux OS frankenmonster of modern Linux that is emerging, because Linux is just no longer doing a good job at explaining it anymore. Perhaps a recursive acronym such as SULSAW - SULSAW Use Linux, Systemd And Wayland. Or something. Whatever. Don't care what you call it, just that you call it *something*.
Because I, for one, would love to keep referring to a family of operating systems that includes Fedora and Ubuntu but excludes Android, Azure and anything else that isn't compatible with the applications running on Fedora / Ubuntu.
After five years at the same company doing the same soul-sucking work in web development, I decided to hit the books again.
For me, I decided to start fresh and go to university for a bachelor and master title in embedded systems, but if you already got those under your belt, then you can always apply for a Ph. D. position at any university in the world. While an MIT or Stanford Ph. D. does come with great bragging rights, many other smaller universities, especially abroad, are happy to have you. Like the one I went to, which is a small but focused university able to compete with many bigger universities in my specific field (Embedded).
If Academia isn't a suitable position then pick any field of interest and learn enough to land a job in that.
One thing to note, Apples market share is actually falling even lower. This chart does not paint the whole picture.
Since Apple only releases their models once a year, you see a very strong see-saw pattern in their sales; strongest in x-mas, weakest in August. This means the only fair way to measure their market share is by a moving average of the last four quarters.
By this measurement, Apple had a peak of 21.05% market share in calendar Q1 2012 (Apple Q2) and has been in a slow decline ever since, now down to 14.33%.
With reports of worse iPhone sales this quarter, I expect this to continue. If they have a smash hit on their hand, like the iPhone 6 was, the market share temporarily climbs one percentage unit or so; problem is Apple is doing a fine job of scaring away Android users with each update.
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Sorry, but this really is less of a problem than you think.
1. Choose one of the four mainstream distros with Support. (CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, SuSE)
2. Choose one of the more advanced distros (Fedora, Debian, Manjaro etc)
3. Choose one of the bleeding edge experimental distros not fit for production use (Arch, Gentoo etc)
If you are unsure or new, choose 1.
If you are used to Linux, choose 2.
If you wish to experiment with the latest and greatest, choose 3.
The distros in 1 already made the choices for you, so the vast majority will choose 1, some choose 2, most should stay away from 3. Having one way of distro does not take away from the others.
And yes, Linux is objectively User Friendly. It's just not what you're used to. So if user friendly is defined as what I am used to then no, it is not.
If all else fails, these days you can make a GPU passthrough solution that lets you run Windows VM + AutoCAD software and nothing else. This at least decreases your security threat vectors.
It does require an extra GPU, but the good news are that you could use a Quadro card (or AMD equiv) for the passthrough and a regular GPU card for your host system.
As always, you do you.
Most people would disagree with you including Microsoft themselves.
Also, seems to me you are comparing a special built Ubuntu-derivative with a non-standard file system that had no business running on a production server in the first place with a commercial grade OS.
Third, there isn't a million viable Linux distros, but four distros that give reliable paid server support; Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS and SuSE. Everything else is to be considered as experimental/non-supported and should be avoided unless you really know what you are doing.
The computer itself is procedural
This stopped being true with the advent of Multi-Core and FPGAs. If the world is still clinging to this belief, then no wonder most programmers cannot code multi-threaded programs.
Why not simply go to Mint directly then? You're simply delaying the inevitable, and chances are good that when push comes to shove, you'll grumble a bit about Windows 10 and... Switch to it, grudgingly, because it is the only thing you can run that satisfies your criteria.
There's literally no reason not to be running Linux now, unless you have a very specific program you cannot run under Linux for some reason. If that software is a game, then you are saying a game is more important than your privacy. If it's work-related, then it's somewhat more tolerable, but regardless you should try to find a way anyhow. That software will not be ported unless you switch to Linux.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/
That rabbit hole goes even deeper though. Is the information on your computer worth your life? Your daughters life? Your familys life?
And yes, even government officials can, have, and will resort to the above tactics if they deem it important enough.
None of them comes close to what me and my friends at work can do with orgmode on emacs.
Yes, Apple is one of the only tech companies caring about your privacy.
It is also one of the worst offenders to seeing their customers as big bags of money they need to squeeze every single penny out of - as well as trapping them in a walled amusement park filled with amazing wonders.
I'd much rather go with, say, Canonical or Red Hat, or go full communist with Debian...
Yes, but 4k gobbled that up so now they are back to 500 MB/episode again. :(
Actually, it is described in the link to the website itself.
From what I could understand, you have one account connected to one or more PODs. The account controls the information flow for the pods.
So basically an old school web server with a permissions protocol slapped on top of it.
Battery life: Mine has several days worth, a mid-end Lenovo P2. If you really want to though you can flip an actual physical switch that makes the phone go down into a battery saving mode that lasts for up to 8 days (200 hours), where you can only do calls, calendar and SMS.
If I use the phone as a GPS then yes, it drains within 8-10 hours, though.
FFFP reader: They are coming, baked into the screen.
And there is no reason you cannot do the same things as Apple watch in an Android offering, it's just that it is a very, *very* niche market, require quite some research, and yes I do believe Apple could have a killer product if they would only let me pair up the Watch to an Android device. As it stands it is pretty much useless to me though.
1. Decentralised DNS. The DNS crew have shown they cannot be trusted to 100%, which is a really bad thing when it comes to free speech online. Perhaps a bitcoin style ledger could be of help here.
2. A decentralised social network solution with monetisation options. Think about it, Youtube and Facebook rolled into one for all sorts of content imaginable, a pay-as-you-go buffet where you can choose whether to pay with your eyeballs, your time, or your money. Awesome stuff if it ever get started.
3. The realisation that the web of the nineties, where everyone and their grandma could make a website, is pretty much dead. And no, I do not mourn those Geocities webpages, I rather mourn the fact that it is way too hard to get stuff online without selling your firstborn son to one of the big dragons (Google, Facebook etc).
Guess I'll keep dreaming of these things forever though...
1. You are assuming all drivers are either binary or shit. This is not the case, and in fact, Linux does not need 95% of the binary drivers Windows does. Gaming Mice and keyboards? Bundled with the kernel. USB 3.0 Drivers? Bundled. In fact, in the Linux world, it is far more common not having to install driver packs from third-party vendors, which is a good thing.
2. Even if a binary driver is necessary, Linux allows for wrappers. These wrappers provide the stable binary interface required for your specific driver while keeping itself up-to-date for the kernel. nVidia is one company going this route, there are others available.
3. Radeon GPUs are eating nVidias lunch in the world of Open Source Linux. The FOSS drivers are almost on par with the closed source Radeon drivers, proving that no, it is not really necessary with closed drivers anymore.
Embedded systems are not affected by this. If they are, then the manufacturer fucked up by choosing a system where this was known.
A Linux-powered system, meanwhile, could easily be frozen in time for twenty years or more, if one choose to do so.
Actually, perfect SNES emulation was achieved years ago, see bsnes 0.87 in 2012. And yes my $600 laptop could run that just fine... :)
Incorrect.
What *is* happening is that some popular distros are dropping 32 bit *install images* - because more or less nobody use those systems anymore, except for neckbeards like me.
And the occasional hardware machine, of course.
Games with Loot Boxes should get the rating "Adult Only".
The last Pentium III chip ever created was released in 2001.
2001. That is 17 years ago. Last computer built with this ancient technology is probably from 2005, over ten years ago. Much of the hardware machinery, such as mechanical drives and fans, should've stopped working by now. If they miraculously still work, Linux is a prime candidate to run on this super-old system for that last mileage.
Face it, Windows 7 is on it's death bed, and if you do not like it, go Linux or go home. :)
Nice work man!
Though I sure hope you replaced those 3D-printed parts with something a bit more lasting once the prototype stage was done.
My experience with 3D printed stuff is that they are like duct tape - great for short-term on the fly projects and prototypes, but just like duct tape, you don't want to rely on it too much.
So, your software package for "Linux" runs on Android/Linux then? Or is guaranteed to run on Azure/Linux?
I get where you are coming from, but Android is not compatible with "Desktop" Linux or "Server" Linux.
I recently started to use GNU/Linux in order to differentiate it from the other aforementioned operating systems, but to be fair, it is a crutch and as I said in a different comment thread, I welcome any suggestions for names that encompass the GNU/Wayland/Linux/systemd userspace. Would be GNU/X/Linux/systemd, but what is the point in renaming a software that is soon going to die anyhow...
No, it does not really matter if we call it Linux or GNU/Linux.
Except, these days, GNU/Linux is not the only Linux based operating system in town. I count at least four different major flavors, those being GNU/Linux, Android/Linux, systemd/Linux and now recently Azure/Linux.
Except, as many has pointed out, there is also GNU/BSD, BSD/Linux, et cetera. So, calling it Linux doesn't really say anything anymore. Linux could be Android. Or Azure. Or heck, even BSD.
What I do know is that we need to come up with something new to call this systemd/wayland/Linux OS frankenmonster of modern Linux that is emerging, because Linux is just no longer doing a good job at explaining it anymore. Perhaps a recursive acronym such as SULSAW - SULSAW Use Linux, Systemd And Wayland. Or something. Whatever. Don't care what you call it, just that you call it *something*.
Because I, for one, would love to keep referring to a family of operating systems that includes Fedora and Ubuntu but excludes Android, Azure and anything else that isn't compatible with the applications running on Fedora / Ubuntu.
After five years at the same company doing the same soul-sucking work in web development, I decided to hit the books again.
For me, I decided to start fresh and go to university for a bachelor and master title in embedded systems, but if you already got those under your belt, then you can always apply for a Ph. D. position at any university in the world. While an MIT or Stanford Ph. D. does come with great bragging rights, many other smaller universities, especially abroad, are happy to have you. Like the one I went to, which is a small but focused university able to compete with many bigger universities in my specific field (Embedded).
If Academia isn't a suitable position then pick any field of interest and learn enough to land a job in that.
One thing to note, Apples market share is actually falling even lower. This chart does not paint the whole picture.
Since Apple only releases their models once a year, you see a very strong see-saw pattern in their sales; strongest in x-mas, weakest in August. This means the only fair way to measure their market share is by a moving average of the last four quarters.
By this measurement, Apple had a peak of 21.05% market share in calendar Q1 2012 (Apple Q2) and has been in a slow decline ever since, now down to 14.33%.
With reports of worse iPhone sales this quarter, I expect this to continue. If they have a smash hit on their hand, like the iPhone 6 was, the market share temporarily climbs one percentage unit or so; problem is Apple is doing a fine job of scaring away Android users with each update.
Is that it's GNU/Windows?
You need medicine research to be funded by the goverment. Because the companies just said "Ain't no money in it."
Capitalism is a great system as long as there are profit motives, but falls far short where quality and safety are most important, profits be damned.