Yeah, and NT was pretty much just a corporate and government thing throughout the 90s. It wasn’t until XP that home users got it on the desktop, and even then, the first user created automatically had all admin rights, because people were still used to the Win9x/DOS way of doing things. Separation of different accounts with different privilege levels wasn’t a widespread practice up until maybe Windows Vista.

Yeah but…most people’s grandparents aren’t going to be riding rockets. This isn’t sustainable for widespread access to space.

Oh yeah, there are advantages to each, despite the bickering and camps we put ourselves into. It all comes down to what abilities you’re gonna lose, and what you’re gonna gain when making the decision.

For me, I rarely game, and I do a lot of hobby electronics and programming, so Linux is a good fit. There’s so many cool open source programmer utilities out there.

For my wife, it fits not so much.

We gotta figure out a better way than strapping ourselves to a continuously exploding bomb and pulling some serious Gs for 8 minutes.

Wonder how some of those SSTO space plane projects are doing…there was a British one I can’t remember. Used hybrid air-breathing scramjets, switching to internal oxidizer once it was going fast and high enough.

Edit: here it is and I was mistaken it’s not a SCRAMjet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)

I guarantee, most new users coming to Linux from Windows/macOS are going to laugh and look at you funny if you try to justify entering your password again and again and again.

That’s nice, but this ain’t MacOS or Windows. This is Linux.

Sorry but 20 years of “but this isn’t exactly like Winders11!!!one!” starts to grate on me. It’s a different OS with a different philosophy and a different workflow. Everbody coming from Windows had to learn to deal with the nuances of that OS as well, nuances they’ve completely forgotten about because it’s second nature.

I don’t WANT Linux to be exactly like MacOS and Windows. I want it to stand on its own, with its own ideas on how to run a computer.

Put your money where your mouth is and open source the Tesla software. Do it. I fuckin’ dare ya.

Edit: we want Falcon 9’s landing guidance software too.

I’m sure the FBI and Secret Service are doing some overtime today too.

Switched in 2002…because I wanted to fuck with web dev and IIS sucks donkey nads. LAMP stack good, IIS/ASP/MSSql bad.

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Keep reading:

The term “app” usually refers to applications for mobile devices such as phones.

I prefer https://i.imgur.com/E0QsRiQ.png

They are called “programs”, not “apps”. The word “app” was created for the iPhone and originally meant a “mini” slimmed down application meant for mobile devices, not a catch-all term for any user program running on a CPU.

/getoffmylawn

ASCII art does count as graphics I guess.

That’s okay, if you want a quick nostalgia trip, just open one of the many control panels. Use the one according to the Windows era you want.

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“We also want to be racist and stomp on the working class, but we also still want to smoke weed.” - that about sums them up. They got me because of that single issue back in the Ron Paul days before I looked deeper into everything else they were about.

Then I discovered libertarian socialism, when the whole Occupy Wallstreet thing went down. I liked that one better. Couldn’t figure out why America’s official “Libertarian” party were being such asskissers to capitalist power.

Okay? It was on a test stand. That’s what test stands are for. Isn’t stuff like this almost a weekly occurrence for them?

“If you’re a political movement and you want to get supporters at a time when socialism is attracting more and more interest, well, you might be tempted to grab hold at least of the name,” Wolff said, noting that this was a strategy most famously used by Adolf Hitler during his rise to power.

Yeah. That’s why they called themselves National “Socialists”. To suck up ignorant working class votes. I mean, they are even openly admitting following the same strategy now and everybody is still sleeping…WTF.

Reject Mint, embrace Debian.

Uh-Oh!