And they have ironclad assurance that THEY are in 100% control of their hardware. Why? For mission critical software, it's better. Even NASA and ESA are using Linux instead of Windows. Why? Because it's much more reliable, stable and customizable than Windows. Most wireless and wired routers run Linux as their operating system, as do cameras, burglar alarm systems, telephone systems. It is the source of Windows programs that we all love, Firefox, Thunderbird, Libre Office, Open Office, Inkscape, Chrome is developed there, the vast majority of Internet servers use Apache on Linux systems, there are dozens more programs, all come from and were developed under Linux before migrating to Windows. Linux is more reliable, more stable, faster, more customizable. Do I have to paint the picture? This isn't an "if" situation, it's a "when." And now updates are not optional and must be installed automatically. How many times has Windows Update had a crippled update that took millions of systems down? Too many times. However, for every problem Linux has, Windows has dozens. I've run Linux on dozens of computers since 2004 and never had that problem. It's not a dubious OS, it's a rare interaction between hardware and software, similar to those we sometimes wrestle with in Silent Hunter 4. So, while the those of us who are running Win 10 are doing so with little or no problems, others are struggling to get a dubious OS to even boot interesting. Who knows if by the end of next week I still have a functional PC driving them. Ordering another hard drive and cable now, another new one already sits on my shelf. Seeing it under Mint was like meeting a newly found friend once again. Funny it is that just weeks ago I had switched to Libre Office under Windows, too, I never liked OpenOffice. The good news is that I have seen enough yesterday of what i needed to see and learn about Mint, how it works, and all its included applications. Think I put XP back on that laptop, the Vista stuff is gone, and that way I can at least use it as another backup drive. If Linux maybe has one shining bright weakness - I think I stumbled over it. I googled a lot, and only see that many users seem to have problems like these, with many different Linux distributions. I also tried an ISO of Ubuntu: it starts booting, and then breaks off. Live sessions from stick or DVD - the same. And then it may work all of a sudden, and I have a stable session. More bad news, the laptop sometimes boots, but most often does not, but stalls once I'm behind the Grub selection screen.
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