[lug] Why use a Linux desktop? Was: Re: (Virtual)

[duboulder]

Not managing licenses, being able to work w/o an internet connection. When I was using M$, managing the licenses was a PITA. These days I think you have to enable win10 to dial home at some interval. So if you are out by Mesa Verde with no internet for an extended period, your laptop might shut down. There are areas out there where we couldn't get a cell signal. Also areas like that in RMNP.

Nobody has mentioned the privacy aspects of the os gathering info and sending it out. Not surprising I guess since as far as I can tell people may say they care about privacy but don't really act like they care.

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On Sunday, April 12, 2020 1:42 PM, Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org> wrote:

> On 4/12/20 8:36 AM, Rob Nagler wrote:
>
> > I don't know why people started using Slack over IRC or IM (Skype, AIM,
> > etc.), but they did, and it now is a big.
>
> Having used IRC and Hipchat and some others, the big reason for Slack is
> the easy to use management of discussion groups and server members,
> history, search and file sharing.
>
> IRC had all those things, sure, but it was implemented with bots running
> on the channels with hard to use commands and no GUI. The bots weren't
> standardized so you'd have to figure out what the commands were this
> time. They'd randomly crash too and lose all the channel history or
> forget who you were and prevent you from using your nick. Or allow
> trolls to pretend to be you.
>
> The other IM apps were good for one to one conversations but I don't
> remember any of them that let you share chat history with new group
> members or search it easily.
>
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