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Is Linux for Desktop PCs still as good?

CiniO · 2016-07-29 18:40:07

As a long time linux user who migrated to windows few years ago, I struggle to find a suitable usable distro those days... Is it just me? I started my adventure with Linux in 1997 when I finished my primary school and started high school. Our school PC lab, had 18 PCs then all running DOS. There was a Linux server…

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#32 09-08-2016 10:51am

crkball6

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OSI wrote: »

Has this ever happened? I can't in ten years of using OS X remember ever having functionality removed.

Hardware functionality, yes. drives/ports requiring "attachments" purchased separately etc even in their phones they're now pulling out things like the ear phone jack etc. Again, vendor lock in any form is not good.

OSI wrote: »

It's basically BSD. If the software will run on a Linux desktop it will run on OS X.

Having a BSD TCP/IP stack doesn't make something basically the same thing. With a huge amount of hackery and messing which you previously wanted to avoid I could probably switch to gnome/KDE on OSX. Where on Linux I'm free to install and remove whatever I want. In order for OSX to function that's just not possible. So it's not just a case of it runs on Linux it will run on OSX. If there' s a port obviously. but there's just not the abundance of easy to install applicaions for OSX as there is Linux/BSD

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