If it works completely fine with Wine - in many cases, better than under Windows - why do you care if there’s a translation layer? Seems like a weird hill to die on. Do you also feel like running 32-bit applications on a 64-bit architecture means you chose the wrong architecture?
All of that is true for most other operating systems, some of which are even more customizable than some of today’s Linux distributions. My question was “why Linux?”, not “why not Windows?”.
Question is a not relevant to the discussion, and might be an (possibly unintentional?) attempt at derailing the conversation. @bearboiblake@pawb.social answered the question more than adequately. Their point still holds: If needed, there are many ways to run Windows apps under other operating systems (including Linux). Choosing an OS between Linux - and it’s various flavors, FreeBSD etc is outside the scope of the original discussion.
Oh – in that case, because Linux is vastly more popular than any other alternative free operating system or system distribution, has infinitely more support options and software available than alternatives, and a much larger community/install base, meaning that if you have a problem or want some tool, it’s far more likely to be available for Linux than any other free alternative.
Windows is more popular than Linux, so is macOS. Now is that a reason or not?
notice the word free
False.
ok lol
Which tool does (e.g.) FreeBSD lack for you?
Well, Docker is the archetypal example, though I’m sure there are plenty of others. I’ve never particularly cared to get into BSD, because I have no incentive to do so.
You just said “False”. How tf am I meant to engage with that in any kind of productive way? It’s like saying “no u”.
Last warning before mute.
Why would I care if you block me? It would be your loss, really – I’m a very cool, nice, fun, friendly guy, you’d be missing out on some potentially great comments.
You should.
Why? Genuinely asking, I’ve never looked into it because I have no real incentive to try it. I’ve used NetBSD on a server before, and it was fine, but like, what reason would I have to move away from Linux? It works completely perfectly for all of my use cases.
If it works completely fine with Wine - in many cases, better than under Windows - why do you care if there’s a translation layer? Seems like a weird hill to die on. Do you also feel like running 32-bit applications on a 64-bit architecture means you chose the wrong architecture?
If you use a Windows “translation layer” for your software anyway, why would you choose Linux as the host platform in the first place?
There are so many reasons. Here’s just a few off the top of my head:
All of that is true for most other operating systems, some of which are even more customizable than some of today’s Linux distributions. My question was “why Linux?”, not “why not Windows?”.
Question is a not relevant to the discussion, and might be an (possibly unintentional?) attempt at derailing the conversation. @bearboiblake@pawb.social answered the question more than adequately. Their point still holds: If needed, there are many ways to run Windows apps under other operating systems (including Linux). Choosing an OS between Linux - and it’s various flavors, FreeBSD etc is outside the scope of the original discussion.
Oh – in that case, because Linux is vastly more popular than any other alternative free operating system or system distribution, has infinitely more support options and software available than alternatives, and a much larger community/install base, meaning that if you have a problem or want some tool, it’s far more likely to be available for Linux than any other free alternative.
Windows is more popular than Linux, so is macOS. Now is that a reason or not?
False.
Which tool does (e.g.) FreeBSD lack for you?
notice the word free
ok lol
Well, Docker is the archetypal example, though I’m sure there are plenty of others. I’ve never particularly cared to get into BSD, because I have no incentive to do so.
Please don’t troll. Last warning before mute.
You should. It can’t hurt to know alternatives, you know.
You just said “False”. How tf am I meant to engage with that in any kind of productive way? It’s like saying “no u”.
Why would I care if you block me? It would be your loss, really – I’m a very cool, nice, fun, friendly guy, you’d be missing out on some potentially great comments.
Why? Genuinely asking, I’ve never looked into it because I have no real incentive to try it. I’ve used NetBSD on a server before, and it was fine, but like, what reason would I have to move away from Linux? It works completely perfectly for all of my use cases.