Stupid joke aside, the year of the Linux desktop is the year that you choose to run Linux on your desktop. The end. People have been running Linux on desktop machines long before it was convenient or even sensible (Red Hat's early releases and broken GCC's come to mind)...now you can download something like Linux Mint and be up and running, fully patched, faster than you can with most Windows systems.
So yeah, the year of the Linux desktop? Whatever year you want it to be. All I can say is that I hope you're
In that sense, every year is the year of the DOS command line desktop.
Which is actually partially why it doesn't really matter to me what my distribution does, when I primarily use it as a vehicle for a shitload of terminal windows to SSH to the equipment and servers that I have to maintain. I need decent fonts (which there are tons of them out there now), a good window manager (and they all have the same window managers basically), good web browsers (plural, since I need to keep some mutually-incompatibl
> I'm in a similar situation with similar requirements, which is why I use OSX.
Unfortunately, that means that you have to use Mac hardware. That's not really a good tradeoff at all. That's especially true if you are ignoring the parts that are most often used by anyone else.
> I'm in a similar situation with similar requirements, which is why I use OSX.
Unfortunately, that means that you have to use Mac hardware. That's not really a good tradeoff at all. That's especially true if you are ignoring the parts that are most often used by anyone else.
What is wrong with Apple Hardware? the iMac uses pretty much top-of-the-shelf standard hardware.. apart from the slightly modified gfx-adapter, but even that you get linux drivers for... and Redmond drivers as well, if you are that kind of a pervert.
Only thing I've noticed with the gfx-card in my iMac mid-2011 (which I got for my 40th from the mrs) is that it seems faster than the nVidia 460 512MB card that I bought for my mrs' computer
Now... she got my old computer when I got the iMac... she has 4GB RAM, A
I regularly use many of the keys that Apple either leaves off of their keyboards or requires the use of a meta-key to access, which becomes a problem of that key is supposed to be used in key-combinations which don't work well with meta-keys.
I'm also sitting at a computer with five USB ports, four of which are in use for console cables. This is a problem if I don't want to use a USB hub.
Over priced... at the time I got the iMac, I had a very good look at the specs... the "same" computer in off-the-shelf parts (approximated) would be only be about £25 to £50 less.... sorry, but I don't really agree with your statement.
The (approximately) same hardware NOW is cheaper than the iMac of mine was THEN. But compare the hardware for what it is at the time it comes out, and the money you save on hardware to build a similar spec PC, will be used to buy the Redmond license (unless you go
That clinches it. (Score:5, Funny)
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Stupid joke aside, the year of the Linux desktop is the year that you choose to run Linux on your desktop. The end. People have been running Linux on desktop machines long before it was convenient or even sensible (Red Hat's early releases and broken GCC's come to mind)...now you can download something like Linux Mint and be up and running, fully patched, faster than you can with most Windows systems.
So yeah, the year of the Linux desktop? Whatever year you want it to be. All I can say is that I hope you're
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In that sense, every year is the year of the DOS command line desktop.
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Which is actually partially why it doesn't really matter to me what my distribution does, when I primarily use it as a vehicle for a shitload of terminal windows to SSH to the equipment and servers that I have to maintain. I need decent fonts (which there are tons of them out there now), a good window manager (and they all have the same window managers basically), good web browsers (plural, since I need to keep some mutually-incompatibl
Re:That clinches it. (Score:0)
I'm in a similar situation with similar requirements, which is why I use OSX.
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I'm in a similar situation with similar requirements, which is why I use OSX.
You mean 'I'm an effete snob which is why I use OSX'.
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> I'm in a similar situation with similar requirements, which is why I use OSX.
Unfortunately, that means that you have to use Mac hardware. That's not really a good tradeoff at all. That's especially true if you are ignoring the parts that are most often used by anyone else.
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> I'm in a similar situation with similar requirements, which is why I use OSX.
Unfortunately, that means that you have to use Mac hardware. That's not really a good tradeoff at all. That's especially true if you are ignoring the parts that are most often used by anyone else.
What is wrong with Apple Hardware? the iMac uses pretty much top-of-the-shelf standard hardware.. apart from the slightly modified gfx-adapter, but even that you get linux drivers for... and Redmond drivers as well, if you are that kind of a pervert.
Only thing I've noticed with the gfx-card in my iMac mid-2011 (which I got for my 40th from the mrs) is that it seems faster than the nVidia 460 512MB card that I bought for my mrs' computer
Now... she got my old computer when I got the iMac... she has 4GB RAM, A
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I'm also sitting at a computer with five USB ports, four of which are in use for console cables. This is a problem if I don't want to use a USB hub.
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The biggest problem with Mac hardware is it's overpriced. For the same cost I could get vastly superior PC hardware.
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Over priced... at the time I got the iMac, I had a very good look at the specs... the "same" computer in off-the-shelf parts (approximated) would be only be about £25 to £50 less.... sorry, but I don't really agree with your statement.
The (approximately) same hardware NOW is cheaper than the iMac of mine was THEN. But compare the hardware for what it is at the time it comes out, and the money you save on hardware to build a similar spec PC, will be used to buy the Redmond license (unless you go
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> The biggest problem with Mac hardware is it's overpriced.
It's not overpriced if you use your computer as a tool to make money.
If you just use your computer to dick around, then Macs are spendy.