Is it just me but is anyone else fairly impressed that FreeBSD even got on that desktop OS stat counter graphic?
There was a big push at Microsoft in ~2010 to try to get rid of the command prompt from every workflow.{It probably isn't Bill Gates who keeps threatening to get rid of the Windows console every other year. Larger groups keep pulling in every direction.}
Maybe, maybe not. Just checked on https://www.whatsmyua.info/ with the default User-Agent: sent by Chromium on FreeBSD. One of the three parsers there detects it as Linux.What can I do to help? Quit spoofing my user agent and OS?
If command prompt means the old cmd.exe then yes, they were right about that.There was a big push at Microsoft in ~2010 to try to get rid of the command prompt from every workflow.
cmd.exe is the shell (for both conhost and powershell). Yes they were naively trying to remove it. Microsoft even pushed their backwards views into education. Even now you have a generation of (then schoolkids) who believe that any sort of command line interface is old-fashioned and that the GUI is "modern".If command prompt means the old cmd.exe then yes, they were right about that.
That is true. I have noticed this before that Chromium on FreeBSD identifies as FreeBSD and Linux at the same time. Do not know where to configure it to send the correct string. Firefox is sending a correct FreeBSD string. Konqueror is similar, sending:Maybe, maybe not. Just checked on https://www.whatsmyua.info/ with the default User-Agent: sent by Chromium on FreeBSD. One of the three parsers there detects it as Linux.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.15.0 Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36 Konqueror (WebEnginePart)
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.150 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:86.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/86.0
Here I am really:Maybe, maybe not. Just checked on https://www.whatsmyua.info/ with the default User-Agent: sent by Chromium on FreeBSD. One of the three parsers there detects it as Linux.
And 10+ years later Microsoft releases Windows Server 2019 with no desktop by default*, relying on just a command line.
Windows had a poor CLI, and I think powershell still stems from the time when the NIH-syndrome was strong at MS.
Got any sources to back up that claim?They introduced PowerShell as a sort of replacement for cmd, but they still never got rid of it. Then they started making threats that they would get rid of both cmd and PowerShell, but they didn't do that either.