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In Reply to: RE: Switch to Linux- no more viruses and your system won't crash so much posted by Ralph on October 20, 2016 at 08:37:54
There are so many versions of Linux out there, from companies which come and go (remember Red Hat?), that I have a hard time choosing one. I need an OS which I can rely upon for the forseeable future.
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Red Hat is still the biggest Linux company around.
" I need an OS which I can rely upon for the forseeable future."Actually just about any of them. I got versions that will boot right off the CD, and drive the video right and even most sound cards. Some audiophiles have external DA convertors so you don't even have to worry about that, though you would have to learn to stream your online or ondisk music to USB.
Windows is going to stop working because of browser problems and whatot, like the vulnerabilities. I have long held the opinion that it is possible that companies like Norton and McAffe write some viruses. I am starting to suspect that Microsoft does it to attack older versions. They are in business to make money. (Windows is like a virus in many ways)
Think about this, if you are a software engineer and are privvy to the backdoors and whatever and can do all sorts of things with a PC, don't you have a job or something ?
Yes, but when you go home at night, before wrestling with the kids you do a little bit of coding on your little virus project and figure out how to propagate it and then show up at work at McAffe in the morning and figure out a fix for it, which is much easier when you wrote the thing.
Job security. And if you have that job that means the suits don't know what you're doing, otherwise they would have done it themselves to save money. So you take your fifty grand a year home and they make millions.
Edits: 10/20/16
Get Ubuntu if you have a newer machine, get Xubuntu if you have an older machine, and Red Hat is still around if you want to pay for it (they are sponsor of NPR programming so they must be doing pretty well).
The nice thing here is it doesn't matter if the 'company' is still around! Linux arises from a community , not a company. That was rather the point- so you were never beholden to a company!
Ubuntu's UI sucks. Xubuntu forever. :)
What exactly do you dislike about the newer Ubuntu UI? Why do you prefer the older *more vulnerable* version?
I"m not sure what you mean about vulnerability but I found Canonical's UI a giant PITA. IT's big tool bar never got out of the way, was not movable and I basically couldn't do anything.
Xubuntu is just what I need. Simple, fast, out of the way.
My next favorite is Mint.
This is all good information. Thanks!
BTW, your location is shown as San Francisco Bay. Can I assume that you're not actually in the Bay?
;)
Oh no, I live in a private submarine with solar and wind power, circling around. It's the best way to prevent the earth's 10Hz vibration field from affecting my stereo. :-)
Erik
Haha! :-)
Vbr,
Sam
Ha! I do some programming, and the UI is probably my strongest strength. People are always telling me how easy my software is to use. Makes me feel good.
:)
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