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Comment 2005 (Score 1) 171

For me the year of Linux on the desktop was 2005, with SuSE Linux 10.1
Truly 64-bit (winxp64 was a joke), it installed in half an hour with all software from a single dvd, and it had everything. I never looked back.
My first encounter with Linux GUI, was with KDE (pre v1.0) back in 1998. It was already better looking than than win95.

Comment C# sucks (Score -1, Troll) 109

C# runs nowhere, not even in windoze.
I used to participate in a project which provided a library to unify the access to certain applications (structural analysis), some of which are free and some of which are commercial. The library was developed in C#. Then, we would use the library to make (structural) optimization code, which would be structural application agnostic.
One of our partners who developed an structural analysis application in C++, insisted on using VStudio 2010 because they said newer versions were not compatible. Indeed when we tried to use VStudio 2017 our library code would not run and had to make changes to the code. The same when we used VStudio 2019 (since then I left the project).
At home, I tried to run the library in Linux with mono. It would not compile. Also, many moons ago, a colleague told me that mikro$oft had made an "free" compiler in Linux. It didn't compile the library - it didn't even run an example of the documentation.
And, please, VStudio is NOT free software. You have to make a mikro$oft account to use it after some time.

Java has the problem of Oracle, a but at least it runs anywhere. I participated in a project 10 years ago, where I worked in Linux, and the other developers in windoze, and I never had any problems.

Comment Re:One question - why indeed? (Score 1) 53

Don't forget the price. My wife bought an Acer laptop (Celeron, 4GB RAM, 500GB disk, no Windoze) for 225 euros some years ago. It runs Linux (SuSE) perfectly. To take it to the extreme, I ran Linux (Ubuntu Mate) in Raspberry PI 2B. It cost about 60 euros without the monitor. I couldn't be happier with it. I used web mail, I browsed the internet, I watched utube. I ran Office applications, CAD, finite elements analysis. All my programs run without any issue after a recompilation.

The real question is, why do I a need a MAC and MACOS?

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