People here have suffered both, Microsoft and Lennart. I'm nonetheless pretty sure they will give credit where credit is due.
People here have suffered both, Microsoft and Lennart. I'm nonetheless pretty sure they will give credit where credit is due.
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They give us too much rope to hang themselves with.
TBH I would not even be surprised if most of responses were made from those who somehow are still Linux users today, that could explain why a thread that has a Linux subject can reach 6 pages on a BSD forum.
The FreeBSD community tends to be made up of people who are of working age. It would be surprising to me to find any person working professionally in the industry who doesn't encounter and use a number of different operating systems.
In many ways the leaked tape from IBM RedHat showing discrimination in their recent employment drive says to me one thing...
Yeah, not sorry.
It's boredom. All of my FreeBSD stuff works, so I have nothing to complain about. I have to use Linux at work, and the more they ruin it, the harder my job becomes.
I don't think it is boredom, it more likely is rage that this what simply works (at least for us) will stop doing that because of $UPSTREAM and their bowing to the narcissm of some. The same with Microsoft. Is there a protocol they did not, ahem, "enhance" for their usage?
It's all about the dead presidents.Maybe, just maybe (and this is a big maybe), we need to take a good hard look at ourselves and stop complaining about The Microsoft Model™ and hop on the motherfucking gravy train?
Or do you prefer to get paid money for twiddling your thumbs all day?
Mo patches mo money.
Feel me dawg?
It's actually about money.
But I like presidents too, so you're okay
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It's actually about money.
But I like presidents too, so you're okay
The thing about Linux is that it nowadays has a trickle down effect on FreeBSD: apps get developed with Linux on mind only, then they get ported to FreeBSD and you've got suddenly linuxy stuff under FreeBSD nobody asked for, like Pulseaudio, Avahi or other things. Or even worse a whole DE like GNOME, which works under Linux with systemd only.
let me recall you, at that time, a bug in a simple C program running in a Mac resulted 50% times in system hang, reboot needed!!!!! Windows … do not remember, blue screens maybe. Compiling was a sequence of click in a particular ide (code warrior), options where well hidden check boxes, documenting any procedure was hard, since there was a silly gui for everything. Change from C to Pascal? pc to mac hardware, You must change it all. When i moved to Linux i could compile with a freesoftware compiler, in freesoftware editor Emacs, compile in a shell with a Makefile. Bugs resulted in the program hanging or being terminated, not the computer! Close the xterm, open another and you are back in business. At the computer lab i was using an Alpha, in my home a regular pc, still both had the same GUI(Wmaker), same shell, same OS. Later i installed the same in MIPs(?) mac laptop, the white one, it was really cool. For once, i felt the computer was mine, the decision of making them fast or slow was mine. Change graphics elements, change menus, virtual desktops … it was freedom ! Fast forward, Windows 11, they removed cut/paste from labels from the menu, you don’t like it? They don’t care. Merry Christmas to FreeSoftware, BSD and GNU, the only one where you can choose, the only one where you have some rights. bye . Written from iPad, it will come the time also the tablet will be liberated, and i will rejoy.
Back in the days it was exactly this but with Windows: End-user applications got developed with Windows on mind only.
Let's talk about games.
no, I am sorry. In the companies (at least in mine) we wish we could get rid of Windows once and for all. But, for example, there is huge resistance in dropping MS-Office (for LibreOffice), MS never ported it to Linux, they ported only what we don't want : Teams. They could, there is in the Mac, they just don't want. (2) CAD, huge problem (3) Drivers another problem. AFAIHear Microsft uses all monoplist blackmail practices to avoid these problem getting solved and pushes hard to get its plague OS installed in all hardware. So, no, Microsoft is an enemy of FreeSoftware. If they contribute to the Kernel or something its only because they plan to take advantage of it.
This sounds a bit like your typical group of people working at a company hating at Microsoft Windows just because it has become company culture.
That is mainly a symptom of GPL. That's a grave that many FOSS projects dug themselves and we see it happening repeatedly.
