On Sun, 28 May 2017 00:28:09 -0400, Bill
wrote:

wrote:
On Sat, 27 May 2017 19:49:56 -0700, mike wrote:

On 5/27/2017 5:58 PM, wrote:
On 28 May 2017 00:38:03 GMT, notbob wrote:

On 2017-05-28, T wrote:

Linux's downfall is the lack of applications.
Nonsense.

There is no Turbo Tax
GNUCash

No Quick Books
If I don't know what it is, so why woudld I care?

No M$ Office
Open Office, Libre Office, etc

So it depends, a crappy OS with five different apps to
do everything and gets infected with the turn of the wind
or a technically elegant OS with sparse amount of apps.
Yes, Winblows has more sophisticated applications (a term replaced by
"apps". cuz today's kids cannot express 4 syllables), but they are all
proprietary. IOW, they cost $$$$.

Yes, Winblows has more "accepted" applications/programs, but only cuz
stupid ppl are willing to spend $$$$ to solve their problems. I find
it hilarious that kids, today, can type faster with their thumbs than
I can by touch-typing on a regular keyboard, yet they are terrified of
the command line (CLI). WTF!?

nb
There's just about as many "free" and "open source" stuff for Windoze
as there is for Linux.

If you live in a vacuum and are willing to live with whatever you get with
linux, you're good to go. But don't expect your peeps to change the way
they do things so they can stay compatible with you.
And I double dog dare you to run a large commercial insurance
brokerage using linux on the desktop!!!! Even try running a decent
sised manufacturing and distribution business running Linux on the
desktop, in HR, Shipping and recieving, packing, and shop floor
inventory and BOM apps, including EDI with all your customers across
North America and world wide.

I would guess that many companies like Amazon use database software
running on Linux in most cases (as it's "free"). I wouldn't really
expect to run any large company from a single desktop... I have several
desktops where I live and we are not running a business.
57 and counting. The files are all on a NAS attached to a windows
Server 2012 - we ditched the 'nix box about 6 years ago, when we
upgraded the system from the old Basic 4 dumb terminals to Win-Boxes
and moved to the client server model of the database software. A lot
less trouble than the old system -
Can't for the life of me remember the name of the development system
used at the moment - - - -