I have a Pro license, I'm fully aware of how to pause the updates. I have done this, and Windows has auto updated anyway (at inconvenient times). I don't feel like going through the registry to fix that, it shouldn't be necessary.
Thats what im saying. It auto updates anyway in very inconvenient times, like, if youre gonna update, do it when im not logged in or something!
Ok, but id rather support Linux than Gates.Just FYI, Mint has had their ISOs compromised under their noses and had backdoors inserted in the past.
You're falling victim to the very common trap of Linux dogmatism. It's an easy trap to fall into but just be careful you don't turn into a monster.
I dropped Linux for macOS a few years ago but prior to that I was daily driving Linux for a decade and a decade before that I was either dual booting or dabbling. I like Linux and I am very much behind the cause of free and open software but there's a lot to to be critical about. It's not perfect and certainly not the end all, be all.
Gotta love the fans roaring in the middle of the night for 30 minutes straight.
That's dogmatism. Bill Gates stepped down as CEO over 20 years ago and hasn't even been on the board since 2020.
Thats true, and im not trying to be one of those 'LINUX POWER USER, LINUX FOR LIFE AGHHH' type of people, but i just really really despise Windows.
Yea, it's far from perfect. The fragmentation especially is a difficult problem to solve. The situation with application binaries was finally taken care of in a way that was fairly user-friendly (flatpaks and snaps are very convenient), but because different distributions vary so wildly from each other, the flatpak runtimes have to be huge in order to have all of the dependencies required to run different applications.
There are definitely some problems, but i will continue to use Linux and macOS. There is actually no perfect end all be all OS, but Linux and macOS are both pretty good. What i meant before is that Mint is the end all be all Linux distro, and it will continue to improve. Linux is very impressive, because it can revive quite old machines to work great!
It's just software at the end of the day. No reason to hate or despise.
Software is just software, youre right, but i despise the person (lets be honest here) behind it. Hes such a sicko. But not to make this political.
Disagree (and I spent 25 years in IT). Citrix servers, SQL servers, NetBackup servers (70% on Windows), ITSM (ticketing) systems, etc. The vast majority of servers of nearly all functions run on Windows.
Not true. Linux. Windows is too unreliable for servers. From one source, Techradar: "While Windows may be the world's most popular Operating System (OS) for desktop PCs, the world's most popular OS for the internet's web servers is Linux."
I learned plenty about Linux (achieved an RHCE in fact). But "learning" how to fix dependency hells caused by the package manager (or package maintainer for the software you're trying to update/install) is mostly a waste of time and not the type of learning anyone wants.Oh . . . 'apt'
My history with apt has been extremely solid (as has it been with Debian, in general)
There were some raw days in the latter 90's, but it became much easier. It was a real chore installing Debian from scratch on dialup.
Still use a derivation on my RPi (muscle-memory really comes in handy).
I've been exclusively using Funtoo (neé Gentoo) for the past decade (at least outside of Mac OS (which is my daily), and Win64 (I seem to still have few licenses installed on a few machines)).
On the linux side of things, I don't want everything handed to me. I want to learn
Agreed. I like them all too. I have, in one room/home-office in my house, a Mac Mini, two Windows PCs, a Windows laptop and a Linux server. Nary a fight has broken out amongst them.
No, Linux is very inconvenient!!!😭 Most servers run Windows!!😭 ignore that Android is based on Linux and it is the most popular OS on the planet😭
Mint with Mate interface is very nice indeed.
Web servers are only for... the web. And don't makeup a significant percentage of all the compute servers out there.
The web is a large part though!
It may be an excellent tablet(you know I would like one), but it ain't no iPad killer. Samsung and Google fans have been claiming the death of Apple is inevitable for well over a decade now, and low and behold...Apple's valuation just keeps going up.