Will HFS+ Damage SSDs?

[Slartibart]

It's going to happen any day now (i.e., almost a certainty within the next two years): somebody will finally solve the Linux Problem, and, once solved*, an easily-duplicatable and bootloader'd solution will spread exponentially to take over the planet as everyone adopts. Microsoft, Apple, and all the accredited business-partner hardware OEMs (with their brave-new-world dreams of today's-"secure"=tomorrow's-bricked computers being planned-obsolescence third major purchases after homes and cars) will be left holding their dicks wondering what happened. (*It's already partially solved on the PC side, as you can run most Windows apps in Linux with Wine or similar open-source utility.)

You missed putting </sarcasm> or </Fe>, didn’t you? 🙃

Well, I might be of course wrong, but that comment completely ignores the way the computer industry works.

Last time I checked instead of replacing old technology, new technology gets deployed for new applications.

Microsoft Windows will probably remain the dominant operating system as long as the dominant PC applications are the ones we're seeing today: word processing, e-mail, spreadsheets, web browsing, and accessing enterprise applications through a client-server or browser interface.

And: most users don't replace what they already have. Or take mainframes: PCs and Unix servers didn't eradicate mainframes, even though the vendors of PC and UXS kept insisting that was going to happen any day now.
Another example: IBM‘s OS/2 shows that simply doing things better and cheaper will not be sufficient to steal market share from Windows.

Yes, Linux is poised (or has already) to become a key technology in several new media. And yes, we may see an opportunity for Linux on the desktop after all, simply by providing a cheaper and less vulnerable alternative to Windows… but that has mostly never worked out so far (or it is some form of back and forth - e.g. if you would google for the unitary move to Linux of the administration of the city of munich, germany).

But well, I have set a reminder for the 17th of juli 2026, let’s meet here at 12:00 CET 😎

 

[Sciuriware]

You missed putting </sarcasm> or </Fe>, didn’t you? 🙃

Well, I might be of course wrong, but that comment completely ignores the way the computer industry works.

Last time I checked instead of replacing old technology, new technology gets deployed for new applications.

Microsoft Windows will probably remain the dominant operating system as long as the dominant PC applications are the ones we're seeing today: word processing, e-mail, spreadsheets, web browsing, and accessing enterprise applications through a client-server or browser interface.

And: most users don't replace what they already have. Or take mainframes: PCs and Unix servers didn't eradicate mainframes, even though the vendors of PC and UXS kept insisting that was going to happen any day now.
Another example: IBM‘s OS/2 shows that simply doing things better and cheaper will not be sufficient to steal market share from Windows.

Yes, Linux is poised (or has already) to become a key technology in several new media. And yes, we may see an opportunity for Linux on the desktop after all, simply by providing a cheaper and less vulnerable alternative to Windows… but that has mostly never worked out so far (or it is some form of back and forth - e.g. if you would google for the unitary move to Linux of the administration of the city of munich, germany).

But well, I have set a reminder for the 17th of juli 2026, let’s meet here at 12:00 CET 😎

Microsoft proved that (hard) 'marketing' beats everything: buy a PC and Windows is already 'glued' on it.
LINUX: was a way to make UNIX more user friendly, but failed to provide applications.
And, who needs LINUX today: MacOS == UNIX+Windows, assembled at XEROX and picked up by Steve Jobs,
after the XEROX management gave up. Ironic: Office was also created at XEROX but also dropped by the management,
picked up by Bill Gates c.s. to become the chicken with the golden eggs.
The future is unpredictable, or so it seems.
;JOOP!

 

[Minghold]

You missed putting </sarcasm> or </Fe>, didn’t you? 🙃

No.

Well, I might be of course wrong, but that comment completely ignores the way the computer industry works.

"The computer industry" (the S&P500 corps fronting intelligence entities) won't have any say in the matter, as they're the cancer everyone will be fleeing from and-good-riddance. They're like newsprint, circa 2003.

But well, I have set a reminder for the 17th of juli 2026, let’s meet here at 12:00 CET 😎

Send me a 'ping'.