Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Logically Answered" channel.

  1. When things don't work in Linux you file a bug report with the project and work with them to resolve the issue. You don't just sit idly by and wait for the next version hoping there's a fix. If you don't tell them there's a problem they don't know to fix it. I've had bugs fixed within hours of me filing a report. Pretty good service. But I'll do stuff like send debugging logs. Which really helps devs out. When I file a report there's a genuine bug.
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  2. I have heard that. Then one day I got a used PC with Vista on it so I ran it a bit. Seemed like Windows to me. But that PC had no extra crap installed on it. So what made Vista suck was the users. Wintards could not run Vista.
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  3. Linux is UNIXalike. Linux has no actual connection to UNIX. Linux just resembles UNIX. MacOS on the other hand is based on BSD which is a UNIX.
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  4. Yeah my Linux system boots up in 1.777 seconds. My PC is over 10 years old too so it's not even that fast. Booting taking minutes would drive me crazy.
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  5. The 1900s is the decade from January 1, 1900, to December 31, 1909. What they really meant was the 20th century.
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  6. They aren't making a new version because they lost money on all the other versions.
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  7.  @MichaelBeck_profile  how is Linux not affordable? Linux is free. You need to get paid to run it?
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  8. Then upgrade already. You cheapskate.
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  9.  @eveangreen1871  I've been running Linux since the Windows 95 days. It's pretty much the same. The sun rises and Linux runs. And runs, and runs. It's all about the uptime. I'm only at 57 days right now. Power is spotty here.
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  10.  @basook6116  if drivers work then they work. I have a printer/scanner/fax that can only print under Win 10. It is 100% functional in Linux. For that I am willing to install a driver.
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  11. He deserves his wealth. He earned it. His employees deserve better themselves. Sometimes just putting in the time isn't enough to improve your lot.
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  12. Linux is like life. The more you put into it the more you get out of it. But there's a lot of people that don't like that.
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  13. I sort of remember hearing that myself. I only run Linux too. When I heard it I thought, Ding dong the witch is dead. The wicked witch is dead!
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  14. The dirty dozen?
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  15. We ask the same question about the Linux Foundation CEO.
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  16. AMD and Nvidia can't make any chips at all. Neither owns a chip fab. They just design cnips. They don't actually make any.
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  17. I've heard of Linux updates going sour. So it can happen. But that's usually on cutting edge distros. They don't vet software before they push it to their repos.
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  18. You need the marine edition to get round portholes.
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  19. And what laurels they have to sit on. The finest laurels that have ever existed! Robert Noyce didn't invent the transistor but he worked for the guy that did. While there Bob invented the monolithic integrated circuit. The chip itself. Then he founded Intel. While fulfilling a Japanese calculator contract Intel invented the microprocessor too.
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  20. Me too. # time aptitude update real 0m3.973s # time aptitude safe-upgrade real 0m29.731s Current status: 0 (-36) upgradable.
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  21. I only ever deal with the one Window Manager I happen to like. There's other stuff out there and from time to time I've tried it out. But I've been running the same Window Manager since 1998. Which is when it first came out. I liked it then and I still like it now.
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  22. What incentive does Microsoft have to make you happy?
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  23.  @Jolly-Green-Steve  Microsoft has plenty of incentive to migrate all of their users to the current version of Windows. There is no profit in supporting Windows 7 at all. Windows 10 has revenue streams baked into the OS. Think of them as new features, if you will. Windows is so slow they're probably mining BTC on everyone's PC. Among all the other nefarious things they're doing now.
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  24.  @Jolly-Green-Steve  sure it is. Get a whole new PC.
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  25.  @Jolly-Green-Steve  wow 2004! Back in the early 80s I built a PC based loosely on the Steve Ciarcia design. So ha to you too. Plugging boards in isn't exactly building a PC as far as I'm concerned. You're just assembling manufactured parts.
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  26.  @Jolly-Green-Steve  things were no more proprietary then as they are now. But the world was a much different place.
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  27. If you like your desktop you can keep your desktop!
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  28. There's never been a Linux virus ever found in the wild. They simply don't exist. They've been made academically. But they've never been released. So I've no idea how you're managing to catch viruses in Linux.
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  29. It is difficult for proprietary software developers to distribute their software on Linux. Closed source binaries just don't work well on Linux due to the decentralized nature of Linux. If you're not distributing source code then the Linux community can't maintain your code and make it work with the various distributions.
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  30. Gives us? Do you think Microsoft is running some kind of a charity operation?
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  31. Actually China cannot buy chip fabrication equipment. There's strategic sanctions against them doing so. So no one's ever going to lose anything to China. Not unless they can create their own fab equipment. Which they can't. So that's that.
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  32. Microsoft really cannot compete against the whole rest of the world. Ultimately Windows is just going to be a compatibility layer running the Linux kernel.
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  33. It is foolish to do work you do not need to and spend money you do not have to.
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  34.  @cigmorfil4101  $0
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  35. I like how you think.
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  36.  @silvy7394  Microsoft's greatest innovation was the EULA. You really should read one someday. They're hilarious!
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  37. The way you talk you'd think all Intel does is make CPUs. Sure Intel invented the microprocessor but Intel also invented the monolithic integrated circuit too. Intel invented all chips! AMD is just the punk down the block that copies big daddy.
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  38.  @Pikachamp1  Robert Noyce invented chips and then founded Intel to make them. He didn't start a company with no product to produce. He came up with the idea then created the company to manufacture it. Originally Intel produced memory chips. It was a lucrative field to break into. Their only competition was rope memory.
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  39.  @silvy7394  when a program crashes how do I debug it in Windows? That is something I need to do from time to time after all. When things don't work how do I rationally go about fixing it? How do I query the system for the information I need to successfully administer it? Reboot and reinstall are not valid answers.
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  40.  @silvy7394  in what way is Linux far behind? Did you know that Microsoft is a major code contributor to Linux? Of course the Linux devs have to throw out and completely rewrite the spaghetti code they submit. But the fact remains that they're trying. Heck Microsoft is even a platinum member of the Linux Foundation. They basically pay Linus' salary.
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  41. I don't need any more than 4 cores. I could use faster clock speeds though.
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  42. Intel invented railroading.
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  43. There's app stores for Linux. But the package manager that the distros you mentioned uses has an excellent command line interface. I wouldn't think of using anything else. I can find things or find information about software so fast using the command line. I can find out what package any file on my system came from. What everything does. If I need something I can find it fast.
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  44. The EULA will never die!
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  45. What Intel actually did was they sent an engineering team to AMD to prop them up. Because with AMD out of the picture suddenly Intel becomes a monopoly. With anti-trust laws that's bad.
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  46.  @WilotPiko  it is more of a seesaw. A back and forth. When Intel gets their 20 angstrom line up and running it'll pitch back then. Being fabless AMD is kinda meh.
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  47. Intel doesn't just make chips. Their founder Robert Noyce invented the monolithic integrated circuit.
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  48. @GNMi79 then I guess the site I read that off of was wrong. Because before I post anything I do research it. I don't just make stuff up. I do have this thing called the Internet. Perhaps you've heard of it? You could try it for yourself. Go on a search engine, perhaps Google and type in, when was the 1900s This is what Google has to say about it January 1, 1900 The 1900s (pronounced "nineteen-hundreds") was a decade that began on January 1, 1900, and ended on December 31, 1909. They pulled that off Wikipedia. Now maybe everyone's wrong? But I can only go with what I can find out. Looking at my comment it looks like I copy pasted it too. I do that a lot. Why not? I did go through the trouble of looking it up after all.
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  49. Microsoft is doing fine. The Windows division on the other hand is not bringing in revenues like it once did.
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  50. Sheer Intel engineering prowess. When AMD was circling the drain Intel lent them 200 engineers and they created Ryzen. Because if AMD went under then Intel would be a monopoly. Which can be a difficult position in this day and age. Intel needs AMD and AMD needs Intel.
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