Are you joking? Windows is very much a multi-user environment. The system can create new users in User\%username%\ folders which are specific to the user and has a default "All Users" folder which has default settings/access permissions which tells these new users what programs they have access to when they are created.
Then you are doing it wrong. That's not a problem with Linux instead it's PEBCAK.
Funny how it's never Linux's fault.
Other people don't have the same problems as you do. Occam's razor suggests that the problem isn't Linux, rather, in this case, the problem is the user.
It's not the users fault when the user doesn't edit config files, doesn't run terminal commands, doesn't do anything but change some GUI based settings and installs a few programs from their app store and the result is the OS either fails to boot or becomes so unstable as to be unusable.
The last attempt was thwarted by Microsoft and UEFI.
It's too bad you bought such a locked-down system. It's almost like you would have benefited from doing some research ahead of time if you planned to go to Linux.
I wasn't planning on it, I bought the system and hated Win8 so much I tried installing to Win7Pro got part way through the install and it froze up every time. Tried installing Linux next, failed to do anything but boot the livecd. Most likely this particular model's UEFI.
With Linux it's luck into a terminal fix or re-install and start over from scratch.
Not really. All the user configuration is stored in the home directory, as others have pointed out, so you're hardly starting over from "scratch". If you are intelligent about editing configs, you will create include files in the.d dirs when possible, and then it's easy to save your site-specific configurations of the OS as well, if there actually are any. Often, there really aren't, aside from fstab entries describing your filesystems.
My experience has been that the configs are either corrupted & replaced or overwritten with defaults on re-install. At best I'd get some settings restored others lost or everything was lost.
Absolutely. I've borked my share of Windows installs over the years. I have run into problems that didn't have solutions. In all my attempts I never made it 30 days on a Linux system without having to re-install.
Don't get me wrong, Windows is not perfect, not by a long shot. Forced patching is one reason I don't install Win10 - I always wait 6 months before patching to avoid those issues. Linux just needs to do a better job of auto-recovery is all I'm saying.
Ubuntu 14 was the last one I tried. Upon re-installing, after only a week of use, everything was reset to defaults (I did not attempt to do a clean install). I haven't had to do a re-install Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 (8.0 was a mess). Programs that save settings/need re-installing it's all in the User\%username%\AppData folder (though can be installed anywhere I suppose). Restoring/resetting settings like that is just drag and drop in and out of that folder.
Then you're doing it wrong. With linux, all you have to do is stick the install cd into the drive and reboot, you'll get a brand new system. The beauty of Linux is that the system is designed to cleanly separate your files from the system files, and the system partitions can be completely overwritten with a brand new system to make it work again.
You're missing the point, I don't want to waste my time re-installing my OS/reconfigure my preferences every couple weeks. When I was a kid and computers were new that was fun but I've got way too much on my plate to bother with re-installs now days. If something breaks, I want the OS to recognize it, fix it, and let me get on with my day without trashing my preferences.
+1. I don't know about systemd, but this is the exact reason I'm not using Linux. Too many times it's simply failed on me with no path to recovery other than a complete re-install. For me I'd recommend it as a replacement for Win95 but I'd not recommend it to someone running Win98se.
I wish. I've tried to switch to Linux on many occasions (at least 6 that come to mind). Every single time something breaks in a manner that requires a complete re-install of the entire thing, spending hours searching forums for possible causes/solutions, etc. The last attempt was thwarted by Microsoft and UEFI. One thing Microsoft does well is it makes sure that once something important breaks it has tools to recover, at least partially, so the user can continue. With Linux it's luck into a terminal fix or re-install and start over from scratch.
If you wipe the blade on skin, it's absorbed into the skin - not by the action of the knife. The action of the knife only allows transfer from one surface to another. Injection is pushing through a barrier, like the skin, to deliver the payload. Whether that payload is delivered by contact transfer or pushed in is irrelevant.
this one company? no of course not you are correct. but extrapolate that to what many who have no grasp on how economics work want and it would be a disaster
Increasing the minimum wage is one of the most effective tools for increasing prosperity but like anything in the economy it has a tipping point. Increase it too much and you get hyper-inflation, economic stagnation, & kill growth. Increase it too little and you get economic stagnation, kill growth, and send your people into poverty.
In a rather simplistic company like credit card payments, absolutely. You don't need huge amounts of skill, you don't even need that much talent outside of your security/fraud detection, you just need basic competence and work ethic. The management needs to fire some people to get the word out that these jobs are coveted due to their high starting pay and that the harder working people will get to keep their jobs.
ifi were a college dropout id be happy to get that job
If i just spent 100 grand on a 4 year degree and gave 2 years to this company i wouldnt be as happy about it
College degrees aren't worth much these days. The college profit factories simply turn out too many. Take teachers college + BA, there are 2/3rds more degrees issued per year than positions that open up in my province. This has driven salaries down. Very few degrees equate to a salary bump unless you've got something very specialized/PHD/etc. Although PHDs work against you in some fields. A college degree will help you get in the door, it might give you some specialized knowledge, and maybe some confidence but not much else.
At the end of the day though, you're making what you were making before, it's likely the same you'll make at another company. You were, presumably, happy making it before the change and if you were working for another company so it's entirely about what others are making. Why do you feel the need to be "superior" to those in "lesser" positions? Why are they less deserving of a living wage than you? I mean, prior to it all of the money was going to a single person - why aren't people butthurt about that?
people are leaving because they dont feel valued when someone who just got hired is making as much as them, having been there for 10 years.
So what? There's lots of people looking for work and with high minimum salaries the chances of attracting someone talented just out of college is much higher. If anything it's a great way to keep fresh talent moving in while sloughing off the older chaff.
Differences in pay exist for a reason: Because different people perform functions of different value to the company.
I'm confused. Other than the very vague claim that they're struggling what is the actual problem? OK, some employees were butthurt. Yes, he had to adjust his lifestyle to match his reduced salary but other than being sued by his brother for paying himself too much prior to the 70k move how is the company struggling?
Inject: Drive or force (a liquid, especially a drug or vaccine) into a person or animalâ(TM)s body with a syringe or similar device...
I was simplifying and contextualizing, however, if you really need that to be decompressed for you:
"with a syringe or similar device" similar device = spike/tooth/claw/etc "a liquid, especially a drug or vaccine" = a toxin "drive or force" = the act of breaking the skin.
So Oxford and I agree, just they have a very limited contextualization to humans performing the injection with a medical device.
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Ubuntu is to Linux as balogna is to meat.
The most consistent, bland, can't screw it up kind? Yet it always screws up.
Are you joking? Windows is very much a multi-user environment. The system can create new users in User\%username%\ folders which are specific to the user and has a default "All Users" folder which has default settings/access permissions which tells these new users what programs they have access to when they are created.
Other people don't have the same problems as you do. Occam's razor suggests that the problem isn't Linux, rather, in this case, the problem is the user.
It's not the users fault when the user doesn't edit config files, doesn't run terminal commands, doesn't do anything but change some GUI based settings and installs a few programs from their app store and the result is the OS either fails to boot or becomes so unstable as to be unusable.
The last attempt was thwarted by Microsoft and UEFI.
It's too bad you bought such a locked-down system. It's almost like you would have benefited from doing some research ahead of time if you planned to go to Linux.
I wasn't planning on it, I bought the system and hated Win8 so much I tried installing to Win7Pro got part way through the install and it froze up every time. Tried installing Linux next, failed to do anything but boot the livecd. Most likely this particular model's UEFI.
With Linux it's luck into a terminal fix or re-install and start over from scratch.
Not really. All the user configuration is stored in the home directory, as others have pointed out, so you're hardly starting over from "scratch". If you are intelligent about editing configs, you will create include files in the .d dirs when possible, and then it's easy to save your site-specific configurations of the OS as well, if there actually are any. Often, there really aren't, aside from fstab entries describing your filesystems.
My experience has been that the configs are either corrupted & replaced or overwritten with defaults on re-install. At best I'd get some settings restored others lost or everything was lost.
Then you are doing it wrong. That's not a problem with Linux instead it's PEBCAK.
Funny how it's never Linux's fault.
Absolutely. I've borked my share of Windows installs over the years. I have run into problems that didn't have solutions. In all my attempts I never made it 30 days on a Linux system without having to re-install.
Don't get me wrong, Windows is not perfect, not by a long shot. Forced patching is one reason I don't install Win10 - I always wait 6 months before patching to avoid those issues. Linux just needs to do a better job of auto-recovery is all I'm saying.
you sound like a dumb fuck that can't tell the difference between your ass and a hole in the ground
You're so eloquent. This "dumb fuck" tests in the 97-98th percentile in WAIS-IV PIQ testing, how about you?
Ubuntu 14 was the last one I tried. Upon re-installing, after only a week of use, everything was reset to defaults (I did not attempt to do a clean install). I haven't had to do a re-install Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 (8.0 was a mess). Programs that save settings/need re-installing it's all in the User\%username%\AppData folder (though can be installed anywhere I suppose). Restoring/resetting settings like that is just drag and drop in and out of that folder.
I like the second approach, because it feels like it relies on my own cleverness than it does the engineers that wrote the software.
Also takes WAY too much time and you're screwed if no solution presents itself.
Then you're doing it wrong. With linux, all you have to do is stick the install cd into the drive and reboot, you'll get a brand new system. The beauty of Linux is that the system is designed to cleanly separate your files from the system files, and the system partitions can be completely overwritten with a brand new system to make it work again.
You're missing the point, I don't want to waste my time re-installing my OS/reconfigure my preferences every couple weeks. When I was a kid and computers were new that was fun but I've got way too much on my plate to bother with re-installs now days. If something breaks, I want the OS to recognize it, fix it, and let me get on with my day without trashing my preferences.
+1. I don't know about systemd, but this is the exact reason I'm not using Linux. Too many times it's simply failed on me with no path to recovery other than a complete re-install. For me I'd recommend it as a replacement for Win95 but I'd not recommend it to someone running Win98se.
More people will just move to Linux.
I wish. I've tried to switch to Linux on many occasions (at least 6 that come to mind). Every single time something breaks in a manner that requires a complete re-install of the entire thing, spending hours searching forums for possible causes/solutions, etc. The last attempt was thwarted by Microsoft and UEFI. One thing Microsoft does well is it makes sure that once something important breaks it has tools to recover, at least partially, so the user can continue. With Linux it's luck into a terminal fix or re-install and start over from scratch.
If you wipe the blade on skin, it's absorbed into the skin - not by the action of the knife. The action of the knife only allows transfer from one surface to another. Injection is pushing through a barrier, like the skin, to deliver the payload. Whether that payload is delivered by contact transfer or pushed in is irrelevant.
this one company? no of course not you are correct. but extrapolate that to what many who have no grasp on how economics work want and it would be a disaster
Increasing the minimum wage is one of the most effective tools for increasing prosperity but like anything in the economy it has a tipping point. Increase it too much and you get hyper-inflation, economic stagnation, & kill growth. Increase it too little and you get economic stagnation, kill growth, and send your people into poverty.
The cost of general goods will not change by raising the wage of 100 people in a city of millions.
Everyone doesn't make the same pay, just that the minimum pay is $70k. There are still 100k+ developers.
In a rather simplistic company like credit card payments, absolutely. You don't need huge amounts of skill, you don't even need that much talent outside of your security/fraud detection, you just need basic competence and work ethic. The management needs to fire some people to get the word out that these jobs are coveted due to their high starting pay and that the harder working people will get to keep their jobs.
That's a management/HR failure to me. If someone is significantly under performing like that they get the boot and quickly.
ifi were a college dropout id be happy to get that job
If i just spent 100 grand on a 4 year degree and gave 2 years to this company i wouldnt be as happy about it
College degrees aren't worth much these days. The college profit factories simply turn out too many. Take teachers college + BA, there are 2/3rds more degrees issued per year than positions that open up in my province. This has driven salaries down. Very few degrees equate to a salary bump unless you've got something very specialized/PHD/etc. Although PHDs work against you in some fields. A college degree will help you get in the door, it might give you some specialized knowledge, and maybe some confidence but not much else.
At the end of the day though, you're making what you were making before, it's likely the same you'll make at another company. You were, presumably, happy making it before the change and if you were working for another company so it's entirely about what others are making. Why do you feel the need to be "superior" to those in "lesser" positions? Why are they less deserving of a living wage than you? I mean, prior to it all of the money was going to a single person - why aren't people butthurt about that?
people are leaving because they dont feel valued when someone who just got hired is making as much as them, having been there for 10 years.
So what? There's lots of people looking for work and with high minimum salaries the chances of attracting someone talented just out of college is much higher. If anything it's a great way to keep fresh talent moving in while sloughing off the older chaff.
Imagine that.
Differences in pay exist for a reason: Because different people perform functions of different value to the company.
I'm confused. Other than the very vague claim that they're struggling what is the actual problem? OK, some employees were butthurt. Yes, he had to adjust his lifestyle to match his reduced salary but other than being sued by his brother for paying himself too much prior to the 70k move how is the company struggling?
Sorry, I now realize that English isn't your primary language.
Ad hominem much?
This is incorrect. The frog does NOT inject venom. The spines are simply venom coated.
The spines are coated in a toxin, which is "injected" when the spine drives into the skin, making it a venom.
You differ from Oxford:
I was simplifying and contextualizing, however, if you really need that to be decompressed for you:
"with a syringe or similar device" similar device = spike/tooth/claw/etc
"a liquid, especially a drug or vaccine" = a toxin
"drive or force" = the act of breaking the skin.
So Oxford and I agree, just they have a very limited contextualization to humans performing the injection with a medical device.