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Still, the same until they:
1. Will give up FAT and exFAT patents
2. Stop racketeering Android vendors for their patented "inventions"
Also, what happened with NTFS-3G[1] project? Seems dead for many years, while still not supporting some of the NTFS features. They should at least upload it to GitHub.
This is really Microsoft catching up to the Mac in terms of integration with the open-source ecosystem which importantly drives the web. In the mid 2000's the Mac really took off due to being a good-enough Linux replacement on the command line, while taking care of all the hardware integration and providing a sleek desktop experience. This really helped the Mac take off among hackers. This system wasn't as open-sourc…
This is really Microsoft catching up to the Mac in terms of integration with the open-source ecosystem which importantly drives the web. In the mid 2000's the Mac really took off due to being a good-enough Linux replacement on the command line, while taking care of all the hardware integration and providing a sleek desktop experience. This really helped the Mac take off among hackers. This system wasn't as open-sourc…
From the very start, the NT micro kernel was designed with multiple OS APIs in mind. They implemented a Posix subsystem decades ago.
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Version incompatibility is expected, because Linux kernel changes a lot. You need the correct driver for your kernel. The amdgpu driver is a part of Linux distribution, your best option is to install it from Ubuntu apt repository, not from manufacturer's website. Which now explicitly and clearly says the driver is for Ubuntu 18.04 only - did you not see that?
> Version incompatibility is expected, because Linux kernel changes a lot. Expected by whom, though? I could understand it if it was major kernel versions or something like that, but it seems that a whole bunch of things are really tightly linked. > Which now explicitly and clearly says the driver is for Ubuntu 18.04 only - did you not see that? I honestly didn't. I went back and checked - yep, it does say for 18.04[…
Advice to Linux users: one would best get their the graphics driver and a matching Linux kernel from the same source, either the Linux project, or the OS distribution. Mixing versions downloaded from AMD website with random kernel is supported by nobody and is testing your luck. That is a Windows model and kind of works with Linux only with nvidia drivers for their hardware, although it brings a lot of headaches too.
I agree that the installer should have warned you about the incompatibility at the beginning of the install, not at the end. That sucks.
With graphics, it is usually best to run the newest drivers with Linux, that means the newest kernel possible. Except for the older cards, which are not supported by AMD anymore (which sucks), where one can only use old drivers with appropriate old kernel.
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I keep seeing this angst over whether Linux will ever be ready on the desktop. Well, I've been using it exclusively for something like 15 years.
Me too, since 2004 with Fedora 3 back then. And I'm growing more and more frustrated with it the last few years. Maybe I just have less time and patience nowadays :-)
At least on Linux I can fix the things that are really making me nuts.
I think this will benefit windows users because now they have easy access to Linux but also probably to Linux users who now can write Linux programs that can access resources on a Windows machine. Conceptually it amounts to having England and France whose people speak their own languages and now there is an European Union language translator program that allows them to talk to each other in their own language. No?
If I could do COM calls from Linux to a Windows hosted Excel.Application, now that would be amazing...
This is spent effort to be lazy.
Having said that, it is technologically worth studying.
I wish Microsoft would release their own linux-based OS with a compatibility layer to let me run Windows apps. I'm not overly impressed with the direction Apple is going but I really enjoy a *nix-native environment too much to go back to vanilla Windows. It would change the math a lot for me if it was full-blown linux under the hood.
Why? This is a common ask, but what exactly makes a Linux kernel superior to Windows? There seems to be an assumption that Linux is the ultimate in OSes. But most of the value comes from the large ecosystem and momentum, rather than specific technical advantages.
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I didn't know that macOS users don't run Docker natively! On Windows, it's native: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/
That cannot run Linux containers, only Windows containers, no?
However, we use VMs managed with Salt for our Centos VMs. I never saw the need for Docker. Maybe if I did "web" stuff.
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>I keep seeing this angst over whether Linux will ever be ready on the desktop. Well, I've been using it exclusively for something like 15 years. >For most purposes, it has been ready for years.[...] Most people, however, could switch to one of many Linux distributions and be just as productive if not moreso. If "most people" includes non-technical users, I doubt they could switch to Linux without difficulties. E.g.…
I agree with this sentiment. I'm not a hacker, gamer or coder. I'm an architect who enjoys tech. I've used Ubuntu and other distros. The one thing that stops Linux from becoming mainstream for desktop use is software. Software for enterprises and software for consumers. The tech community doesn't realize that there is more than just office applications and browsers that people use. I can not install BIM (Revit) softw…
Yes, unfortunately, architecture CAD and BIM are not among those fields :(