I'm a student, power user, but a student, I dont have a job with complex program requirements, I don't need PS, Windows-only audio software, whatever......The alternatives, GIMP, Ardour, Libreoffice/Google Office....I have 60% of my games, Minecraft,TF2,Beat Hazard, Linux Tycoon (of course), Gmod, whatever, on (a good amount of ) *nix. Linux is heavily customizable, themes, compositor configurations, Desktop Environments, and...best one...you the under laying are not tied to a UI, maybe Xorg/Wayland (never Mir:P) crashes one day ( has happened on a VBox install) and you have to remove Xorg/Wayland and but your repo's back to the stable/LTS branch, apt-get install Xorg/Wayland and be good to go....or whatever the problem is...you can do it on the terminal. I dont speak for everyone...but I think I at least speak for others in my age range who don't need PS or certain software for their job. Just my thoughts
the underlying model is far more advanced than what traditional Unix has to offer.
No. That's exactly what part of makes Windows so insecure.
The security model is so "advanced", convoluted, and complicated, that the implementation cannot possibly be correct in any realistic universe.
There are so many errors and holes in Windows' implementation of security, AND holes in administrator practices, that you are pretty much guaranteed things will be insecure.
Yeah, you can do fancy things like run different services as unprivileged users.
What does the average admin wind up doing, when installing software?
Accepting insecure defaults... run the application as administrator... run the service as LOCAL SYSTEM, etc.
Let us not forget all the registry key troubles and DLL hell, man, malware messes up your registry like a Dog on crack
If you cant use any "mainstream distros" try a spesific one based off of Debian/Ubuntu or Redhat such as Mageia or Mint, personally OpenSuSe fits my needs 40% of the time while arch does 30% and the rest is a bunch of obscure or unknown distros (as well as ReactOS and Haiku;) )
In coordinance with the EEE-PC problem, that happened a while ago, MS doesnt want any other Online store on Windows 8 unless MS aproves, can someone tell me if MS has aproved Steam?
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I'm a student, power user, but a student, I dont have a job with complex program requirements, I don't need PS, Windows-only audio software, whatever......The alternatives, GIMP, Ardour, Libreoffice/Google Office....I have 60% of my games, Minecraft,TF2,Beat Hazard, Linux Tycoon (of course), Gmod, whatever, on (a good amount of ) *nix. Linux is heavily customizable, themes, compositor configurations, Desktop Environments, and...best one...you the under laying are not tied to a UI, maybe Xorg /Wayland (never Mir :P) crashes one day ( has happened on a VBox install) and you have to remove Xorg/Wayland and but your repo's back to the stable/LTS branch, apt-get install Xorg/Wayland and be good to go....or whatever the problem is...you can do it on the terminal. I dont speak for everyone...but I think I at least speak for others in my age range who don't need PS or certain software for their job. Just my thoughts
I'll just order some pudget systems with no OS
Damn, I just started minning today!
What about haiku? You know, for Qupzilla
the underlying model is far more advanced than what traditional Unix has to offer.
No. That's exactly what part of makes Windows so insecure.
The security model is so "advanced", convoluted, and complicated, that the implementation cannot possibly be correct in any realistic universe.
There are so many errors and holes in Windows' implementation of security, AND holes in administrator practices, that you are pretty much guaranteed things will be insecure.
Yeah, you can do fancy things like run different services as unprivileged users. What does the average admin wind up doing, when installing software?
Accepting insecure defaults... run the application as administrator... run the service as LOCAL SYSTEM, etc.
Let us not forget all the registry key troubles and DLL hell, man, malware messes up your registry like a Dog on crack
If you cant use any "mainstream distros" try a spesific one based off of Debian/Ubuntu or Redhat such as Mageia or Mint, personally OpenSuSe fits my needs 40% of the time while arch does 30% and the rest is a bunch of obscure or unknown distros (as well as ReactOS and Haiku ;) )
In coordinance with the EEE-PC problem, that happened a while ago, MS doesnt want any other Online store on Windows 8 unless MS aproves, can someone tell me if MS has aproved Steam?
Verry, nice, may look forward into it for my old laptop from 2007 I won in a raffle
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Funnily enough, just as I was about to go to sleep I saw a "stay home" collage commercial
If vim and emacs merged into one application, would the resulting application donate Richard Stallman to Uganda?
No, more likely North Korea
Welp, time to move to Xfce, oh wait, already done
I believe the old NT worn,Gruel is compatible, and it completely breaks Win 8's Metro
How many year's since Red and Blue again?
And by here I mean LA
Here, its already over 5$