On Sat, 18 Jul 2020, William Morder via trinity-users wrote:
I also hope never to say the words "run Windoze" ever again. ;-) However, I can see where it is sometimes useful to be able to run it for some limited purposes, and confining its evils to a virtual box would probably be my choice, as well, if somebody is pointing a gun at my head, or I find myself caught in some such predicament.
I have a set-up here where I play internet tv on the laptop and feed it to a tv for us to watch.
I have trouble getting RandR to behave and if I'm not careful, I end up with a discolored and wrong-sized screen on the laptop. Windows does a satisfactory job without hassle.
in the past the university was sure to work with Windows but less so with Linux though I noticed in the last yrs I was there sometimes Linux was better on their presentation machines and such.
Note that I never started out to be a Linux crusader, nor did I think much about the implications of "proprietary" software. It was only when I couldn't get my machines to do what I wanted (things that they used to do without complaint); then I started doing some research, which eventually led me to Linux, then GNU/Linux free/libre, Richard Stallman, et al. The same with systemd versus init: systemd messed up my system, that's why I didn't like it. Later came the philosophy and politics of computers and software, and all that other stuff.
my history is a bit a mix of yours and other motives. I started out with MSDOS, then a non-MS variant of DOS (4DOS?), then Desqview, then OS/2, then RedHat. I wanted to avoid MS entanglement. (never even contemplated Apple.) MS felt too intrusive and the aesthetics was distasteful. not that IBM is so great but OS/2 had a bit more a sense you are not wards of the corporation, you had a somewhat freer hand or so it felt to me then.
but yes, I liked the 'free/libre' motif also and privacy concerns. I shifted from OS/2 because of some installation issues and out of curiosity about Linux.
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