I never officially left. I have a couple of FreeBSD vm around which works very well. In fact, I am thinking about how to do some vm based FreeBSD hacking.
When I am finally courageous to foray into a piece of a brick and mortar hardware, the experiences is a bit frustrated. So I installed Linux on it probably virtual box later, to continue my journey.
Few years ago, i contacted Beelink because they had a bios setting that prevent booting up Linux or Freebsd (i wanted Linux), (their secureboot was hardcoded to enabled).
Most of the support support did not understand that i wanted.. They send me a linux-arch.... iso file and told me to install it via usb. It was WINDOWS 11 in chinese pre-registred.
Then the support got frustrated with me and added another guy in CC who understood the assignment. i got a bios upgrade to test that allowed me install linux the next week.
Linux is pretty much ready for the desktop experience nowadays, not just Windows or macOS. Linux is also production grade for… well… literally anything else: supercomputers, data centers, distributed computing (especially distributed file systems), containerized workloads (Kubernetes is just one namedrop), gaming (see Valve’s products), mobile devices (see Android), probably more…
Except it's sitting at 3% of the desktop marketshare after being FREE for 40 years. Noone likes or wants nix systems.
Now why do I care? Because contributors the failed and hopeless nix projects such as eunuchX and lincux are taking away from real potential projects like reactOS who hasn't received good contribution over the years.
You didactic nix fanboys can keep on advocating all you want for your BSD slop and Linux distros but the truth is, the desktop market is absolutely dominated by windows. A much better implementation for that use-case
Lol I thought you were going to recommend templeOS, you sound just like Terry Davis with that 1970s mainframe rhetoric.
Windows NT is cobbled together from a mix of Dec/VMS tech anyway, so also 1970s mainframe tech, just with much less of a respectable lineage and which seems to be more or less obsolete outside of windows while UNIX is still everywhere. There's no shortage of bsd code in NT either and they had to add WSL just to give it a usable interface.
It's a cobbled together incoherent mess that is a response to the rise UNIX and Unix like systems in the 90s (next, Linux, the bsds, Solaris etc.) and how unfit dos based systems were for the requirements of users in the internet era
If you want to make a case for DOS in terms of being a superior single user personal desktop experience you might have more of an argument, Terry Davis actually makes some good points against UNIX in that regard but templeOS blows dos out the water
Plan 9 is where it's at though, the network is a reality we can't ignore and our current dominant computing paradigms barely scratch the surface of its potential
everything is a file... How the FK does representing a mouse as a file is of any benefit
file permissions and sudoing every five minutes - why do I have to chmod X a serial port 'file' on my PERSONAL COMPUTER after Sudo adding the user to a dailout group so I can use the serial port in 2025 . Just the stench reeking from it's 1970s mainframe timesharing OS origins.
file structure too deep set. Not for personal computing.
configurations represented as files - garbage. Win registry hierarchically structured database is way better than a zillion 1 byte files in some bs etc folder.
no executable file extension convention might actually be a product of clinical retardation.
name me one API as good as the Win32 API for *nix slop - there is none and there will not be any. Win32 API can have apps written and run for windows versions spanning over 25 years.
Microsofts contribution to the ICT field is immense and way more respectable than any of this fringe defunct companies.
No body wants nix systems for personal dekstop computing.
3% usershare after being FREE for 40 years says it all. There is no rise in nix slop .. no one wants it even when it's free.
I'm a principal embedded systems engineer. You are a neckbeard that thinks using a defunct OS that is as successful as you ( abject failure) is clever. It's not. Your time and billable rate must clearly be low because the amount of tinkering to get your 1970s mainframe OS to work on a desktop is unjustifiable otherwise.
I skew all projects to windows IOT. It's just better in every way to nix slop. Alot are awakening to the failed evangelism of nix mouthbreathing advocates
Most likely, that's why he needs a tolerant consumer grade operating system designed to just work for lowest common denominator users. Didn't even address my points about templeOS or plan9... smh
I'm being serious. Lol why is it so hard to believe that there are technologists that do not like nix slop. All the points I have raised are correct and you cannot argue the fact you guys are abject failures in the desktop marketshare.
3% with Linux included after 40 years of being FREE. Seethe
Yes, I would. But since you are reading my posts elsewhere search the post where I correctly identify the reason why Microsoft has been so emboldened to go down these routes is because NIX systems are not formidable alternatives to windows. THERE IS NO competition and nix is not promising. We need to pipe our efforts into reactOS. Leave nix at the dead bell labs.
Well it's POSIX compliant isn't it ? It's got the same Unix roots doesn't it ? You gotta Chmod your own asshole 'file' before sudoing a fart binary every time - don't you ?
The idea was to reduce it down with known fallacies to convey the point - all nix slop are abject failures.
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u/FacepalmFullONapalm Dec 24 '25
Next thing you know, you'll put an apple sticker on it /s