Next-Gen CPU's & Windows 10

[Fairlight]

Mac has their own system identification mechanism with a hardware tie-in to
the mainboard, so that's not actually much better.

As for moving to Linux...  For servers, awesome.  For desktops, not so
much.  I was into Linux in 1993, before it became trendy.  I dual-booted
for years.  I know the limitations of emulation and virtualisation.
Barring -also- running Windows in a VM, the dearth of stable, mature
productivity applications is a show-stopper.  OpenOffice...it pains me to
say this, but having just migrated from OpenOffice to Office 2010, I can
say that OpenOffice isn't there yet, in some aspects.  It has some issues.

But...show me a NLE for video for Linux.  There are a zillion of them for
Windows.  I can't think of one I've -ever- heard of for Linux.  

Show me Adobe's Creative Cloud offering for Linux.

Right...they don't exist.

Linux makes a poor desktop for anyone not oriented towards development.
For a programmer, sure, it's great.  Anyone else?  Not so much.

I've always been a Linux proponent, but I'll only advocate for it where it
makes sense.  The software library for it is still too shallow for it to be
a viable general desktop for the masses.

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On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:49:51AM -0500, Walter Vaughan via Filepro-list thus spoke:
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> On Behalf Of >Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list
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> >Subject: OT: Next-Gen CPU's & Windows 10
> >
> >I have a feeling that many corporation will start to resist upgrading
> hardware so as to avoid being forced to >"upgrade" their OS, or they may
> just switch to Linux.
> 
> My guess is that it would be more beneficial to start handing out Macs.
> Comparing MS to GM, would be like every time you showed up to buy a new
> Chevy, the steering wheel would be in a different seating location.
> Eventually you might decide that Mercedes where the steering wheel is always
> in the front left hand side, while more expensive, actually is worth it for
> the workmanship and lowered stress of ownership.
> 
> 
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