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I don't like Linux much.
Why not?
It's the most popular OS on mobile (Android) and the most popular OS on servers.
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Why not?
It's the most popular OS on mobile (Android) and the most popular OS on servers.
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Android is fine with me, it is maintained by a big private company.
Linux as a PC OS is what I do not like much.
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Ok but why?
Ubuntu and Fedora are both Linux distributions that are managed by big private companies. The US Military is one of the largest customers of RedHat linux, which is a commercial linux distribution.
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Ah
Yeah, compatibility is one thing linux is still falling behind on, but it's improving rapidly.
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Ah
Yeah, compatibility is one thing linux is still falling behind on, but it's improving rapidly.
The UBS TV stick is not new, I've had it for several years. So if Linux is improving rapidly then its improvements don't include by USB TV stick.
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The UBS TV stick is not new, I've had it for several years. So if Linux is improving rapidly then its improvements don't include by USB TV stick.
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What TV stick is it? Generally products that are more commonly used are more likely to end up with support. Also the fact that it's older may mean it's considered to be legacy hardware and so focus moves towards newer hardware.
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I once had a version of Linux, managed by one of those "big private companies", which just filled my screen with gibberish as soon as it was booted. Suse, if I remember rightly.
Windows could manage to put output onto that display, as could the boot manager which loaded before the OS.
More recently, Mint decided that the partition it was sitting on no longer existed (it did), and it refused to boot at all.
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I sometimes use linux but only in a virtual machine running under windows. Linux just does not provide enough device support to suit my needs.
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How long ago was this
OSes don't just "decide" these things. Changes have to happen that cause it to break.
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It's funny you say that because I've never had a device that I couldn't get to work with Linux.
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I know, but for rarer devices I would expect it.
Most modern TV sticks like chromecast work with linux I believe
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Can't remember exactly. Maybe three or four years.
It all depends upon how fragile it is, doesn't it? And before you say it, no I hadn't just changed Windows, or done anything of the sort. In an idle moment I just thought I would boot into Linux, for one of my very occasional visits, and, guess what, it had gone AOL.
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I would strongly recommend trying again. Things have definitely improved since then.
Windows changed your bootloader settings maybe? It happens sometimes.
And Linux isn't fragile. Debian in particular is very stable. It is considered by many to be the most stable operating system in existence, which is part of why it's so popular on servers.
Windows, on the other hand:
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Windows, on the other hand:
The only time Windows has given me a BSOD has been as a result of a hardware failure; usually memory. That Windows is unstable is another myth of the Linux religion.
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Depends on the version of Windows. Lately they have been pretty stable, but not always.
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It's a definite improvement, but Vista wasn't super stable either. My daughter's old computer ran Vista and she had piles of problems with it. ME was the worst one though.
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