stinerman [Ohio]

Microsoft’s most important customers are businesses, who generally don’t deal with this (they have corporate images). Home users also generally don’t deal with this given they buy a computer that has already been configured.

Linux-based systems have always needed to be better because almost no one buys a computer with $DISTRO already installed and configured.

I had forgotten about that and now I am sad that I’ve been reminded.

If Back to the Future was made today, Marty would have traveled back to 1994.

Glad I could be of service.

Ahh the halcyon days of downloading one song from a private FTP server with upload ratios, found by Lycos FTP search. Over a modem, natch, so it took about 50 minutes…and that’s when your mom didn’t kick you off the internet so she could make a call.

It will come down to the laws in your country and how much money you plan to spend on lawyers if your employer wants to force the issue.

Taco Bell most likely.

Running an absolutely ancient kernel.

The old joke is that “Ubuntu” is a Bantu word meaning “can’t install Debian.”

Yeah I think Arch is fine, but I’d never recommend it to a new Linux user.