On Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 11:37 PM Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> I'm a child of the 80th, born in 1966, so I never migrated from Windows > to Linux. I do not come from Windows, as well as a lot of Linux users > of my age or who are way older than I am. > > My first machine with something Microsoft alike was an Atari ST with a > 80286 hardware emulator, IOW a PCB containing a real 80286 CPU was > soldered. Even this time I didn't use MS-DOS, but DR-DOS, because > Microsoft failed to be reliable from the very beginning. > > Actually I'm not using Ubuntu from an Ubuntu desktop image. I > usually start without a GUI, by e.g. an Ubuntu server install with > disabling the install of several packages or I'm using a DVD or a > Ventoy USB stick with a persistent live Ubuntu flavour such as Ubuntu > Mate, Xubuntu etc., or NomadBSD. My daily used Linux on my desktop > machine is Arch Linux with openbox and no WM at all. I can also boot > into a customised *bunt with openbox (or jwm) and no WM at all. > > I'm running QEMU/KVM and VirtualBox for other operating systems, > including Windows XP, 7 and 10, let alone that I help my neighbourhood > with Windows issues. > > For photos, drawing, drawn and stop motion animation videos, as well > as music productions I'm in favour of Apple. > > I have not the slightest idea what is easier when using the Windows > GUI, than when using BSD, Linux (with openbox and command line, I > usually do most things using command line, instead of e.g. a file > browser and such helpers). I guess people get used to something and are > unwilling tom learn something different, even if it should be easier to > use, they fell it's harder to use, because they are used to something > odd in the first place. > > Btw. half-truth are "bogus" and nothing else. > I first used PC with DOS on it in 1987. I used linux for the first time (no gui) in 1997. I am a software engineer with masters in computer networking from NCSU, NC, USA. I have used both windows and linux gui systems a lot. Amit
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