You must be off by a decade. Your reference mentions no OS and Unic was developed around 1970.

Only if a) you have enough money to pay lawyers to defend your rights, and b) the judge happens to not be a Trump follower.

If you are invested in Windows software… don’t run Linux. Being able to run Windows software is like a “patch” to get you by until you find a Linux equivalent. Pretending you can have your cake and eat it too will just leave you disappointed.

Linux has amazing software… but in most cases it feels very different from Windows. If you learn why it is different then you may start to appreciate Linux for what it gives you rather than what it takes from you.

How in the world did they manage that? Did they implement it internally as a TCP API and expose it?

Would not want our warriors to learn critical thinking skills…

Boss has different people for different functions within the company. A monoculture is more susceptible to systematic flaws, but it is also less expensive to maintain. It is not OPs place to decide how the company manages is computing facilities, so if WSL or Cygwin are not accepable compromises (OP and company have to both agree) then OP has to decide whether they are willing to go along with Windows or find another job.

Something to talk about during the exit interview anyway.

… and subservient to Russia.

What a stupid talking head.

Is this a new twist on the old lemmings argument? I mean, Jimmy next door could have provided the same “advice”.

I don’t use this app, but previews should have some mechanism for limiting the image file size, and it is entirely reasonable IMO that one possible strategy for automatically limiting file size for the preview image might be to clip a chunk out of the middle of the original image.

Awww. /s

Do you expect the orange to read past your first sentence?

Odd…

Edit /etc/default/grub to include a timeout so the grub menu will be displayed before the default OS is run.

Trying too hard to get a reaction by threatening to load Windows, the hardware hog? Way too low to even be believable.

First thing that comes to mind with a thrifted laptop is that you need to use an older distro compiled for 32bit cpu. But honestly, modern laptops are cheap and the overall experience regardless of OS is that very old hardware is going to look bad by comparison with anything on a store shelf so unless you are familiar with Linux already and committed to rehab old hardware (e.g. for standalone use) then it probably isn’t worth your time.

That is not an ideal experience. However, hardware gremlins are not a universal experience either.

Others have pointed out that getting a slightly older laptop to put Linux on can give the tinkerers time to get the key drivers working, and avoiding bleeding edge revisions of your distro can help.

It is quite possible that my comfortable experience with Mint and Ubuntu over the years have been influenced by my low expectations of getting all the bells and whistles working the way they would in Windows. I like the software environment that typically comes on Linux and I don’t stress when Windows software (esp games) doesn’t work (though Steam makes a lot of games work anyway).

I did have to spend more time getting the bios and fingerprint reader straightened out on my latest laptop (Dell Inspiron), but Google and blogs walked me through it and the only remaining problem is that sometimes when the fingerprint prompt times out I have to use the password until I reboot.

Isn’t it “any algorithm that would impress Dilbert’s Boss”? In the vein of “I don’t have to be faster than the bear… I just have to be faster than you”… /s

IDK… that word checks out in this case.

I am sure that will stabilize the economy. /s

They are a record of the process of adding to the Linux kernel. Such background can be used to trace the history of contributions if those contributions turn out to have had malicious intent or were derived from code that came from sources that were not compatible with the GNU license that the kernel is released under.

This is th trouble with rule-by-self-interest… eventually different people’s self interests clash. Now what was the solution in the constitution? oh, yeah, rule by laws… but that clearly didn’t work… /s

Just a note: Windows software for controlling hardware is highly likely to assume a)direct access to the hardware (sometimes mediated thorough ancient APIs and assuming the existence of defunct expansion slots) and b) assume meatspace time can be counted using OS timing ticks (which get stretched out as modern VMs timeshare with other processes underneath the virtulized hardware). It is awfully tough to replace them sometimes.