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gaines_wright
Tutor
8 years ago

Linux

  Is anybody out there running Linux?     I get the feeling that most of the people around here are WIMPs ( windows icon mouse pushers ). I used to be a ClUB ( command line user bigot ), but now I'...
maratsade's avatar
maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV
8 years ago

I run Linux on one of my laptops. I have Mint and love it.  

  • gaines_wright's avatar
    gaines_wright
    Tutor
    8 years ago
    maratsade wrote:

    I run Linux on one of my laptops. I have Mint and love it.  

     

    Linux will conquer the world!  :<)>

          Hey that's an idea.   I'll end every post here with those words.  Sort of like Appius Claudius who ended all his speeches with :"and I think Carthage should be destroyed".

    • debbie.jean.bro's avatar
      debbie.jean.bro
      Advanced Tutor
      8 years ago
      Well, Carthage eventually was destroyed, so Claudius' tactic worked, ha! Who was it who, much much later said, "The HRE is neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."? Maybe another tag line could be, "MS OS is neither operating nor a system!" 😜
      • MarkJFine's avatar
        MarkJFine
        Professor
        8 years ago

        It's one of those 'zen'-type questions:

        If an operating environment absorbs the operating system, does that make it an operating system?

         

        Microsoft DOS was a real operating system (stolen from DEC VAX, if I'm not mistaken - yeah, I'm old). Eventually Windows absorbed it. It's still there, just hidden.