Choo Choo. That's me tooting my own horn. I called it. Microsoft is well on its way to using its classic embrace, extend, extinguish technique against Linux. It's never considered Linux a threat until now; when people are really and truly finding the Windows experience to be so terrible that it makes learning about an entirely new OS appealing. If you're a Linux contributor, do everything you can to keep all of that Microsoft garbage out.
Arch is a build-your-own distro. You need to know a lot about how Linux works and what packages you need installed in order to make your OS function. Debian will probably be much more like what you're used to. Don't take my word for it, though. Do your research.
After I switched I never looked back. Ubuntu is always introducing new bugs (and carried in new ones via bleeding edge Debian). Providing you have entry-level Linux experience, Debian is simpler & just works.
None, personally. It's backed by Red Hat, so do your research on the company and see if there is anything that that sends up red flags. I've read that they do many military contracts, but it's not something that I've seen corroborated anywhere else.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Given the TPP and the wording it has on mega-corporations using GPL and open-source software while ignoring the conditions of the licence, I don't see this ending well for anybody.
You know, this kind of makes sense. I remember when Ubuntu switched from Gnome to Unity as the default desktop environment. My memory is bad, but I remember Unity needing to send information about your pc back to canonical for using some search bar / launcher feature and i noped out of that. Not sure how it is now, I switched over to straight Debian, and haven't used unity in forever. I wonder if the plan is to work together to integrate the spyware-esque techniques Microsoft uses now in 10.
Unity bar had spyware installed that marketed Amazon products to you based on searches. It was a partnership to keep the sinking Canonical ship afloat. It seems we're watching it take on more water than before.
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7 u/skruf 31 Mar 2016 00:48
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
0 u/ratsmack 01 Apr 2016 05:39
April 1
0 u/skruf 02 Apr 2016 22:57
Well, it was posted a few days before april 1st, so I don't know. Although, I sincerly hope it was a joke.
0 u/ratsmack 02 Apr 2016 23:35
I'm sure it will just be another poorly designed Unix wannabe subsystem of the Windows OS.
6 u/ForgotMyName 31 Mar 2016 01:34
Choo Choo. That's me tooting my own horn. I called it. Microsoft is well on its way to using its classic embrace, extend, extinguish technique against Linux. It's never considered Linux a threat until now; when people are really and truly finding the Windows experience to be so terrible that it makes learning about an entirely new OS appealing. If you're a Linux contributor, do everything you can to keep all of that Microsoft garbage out.
4 u/TimberWolfAlpha 31 Mar 2016 00:08
Fuckin sellouts.
2 u/JustCallMeCam 30 Mar 2016 21:43
Details details details. If I smell one whiff of bullshit, one trace of the NSA, I'll be on Arch before they can say "What difference does it make".
3 u/2face-Maze 30 Mar 2016 23:08
"Microsoft"
there you go
1 u/AlwaysInService 31 Mar 2016 00:22
Is Arch that good? I might have to migrate from Ubuntu soon...
0 u/8bCvYq2vpg 31 Mar 2016 06:18
Arch is a build-your-own distro. You need to know a lot about how Linux works and what packages you need installed in order to make your OS function. Debian will probably be much more like what you're used to. Don't take my word for it, though. Do your research.
0 u/AlwaysInService 31 Mar 2016 07:37
I worked with Debian a little bit and I experiment with Slackware right. If I'd have to emigrate from Ubuntu I'd probably turn to Debian...
Thank you
0 u/8bCvYq2vpg 31 Mar 2016 08:29
After I switched I never looked back. Ubuntu is always introducing new bugs (and carried in new ones via bleeding edge Debian). Providing you have entry-level Linux experience, Debian is simpler & just works.
0 u/AlwaysInService 31 Mar 2016 22:39
What's your experience with Fedora, if you have any?
0 u/8bCvYq2vpg 02 Apr 2016 06:00
None, personally. It's backed by Red Hat, so do your research on the company and see if there is anything that that sends up red flags. I've read that they do many military contracts, but it's not something that I've seen corroborated anywhere else.
1 u/8bCvYq2vpg 31 Mar 2016 06:17
Debian is better than Ubuntu and derivatives.
2 u/Retron 31 Mar 2016 03:58
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Given the TPP and the wording it has on mega-corporations using GPL and open-source software while ignoring the conditions of the licence, I don't see this ending well for anybody.
1 u/thaddeus 31 Mar 2016 00:15
You know, this kind of makes sense. I remember when Ubuntu switched from Gnome to Unity as the default desktop environment. My memory is bad, but I remember Unity needing to send information about your pc back to canonical for using some search bar / launcher feature and i noped out of that. Not sure how it is now, I switched over to straight Debian, and haven't used unity in forever. I wonder if the plan is to work together to integrate the spyware-esque techniques Microsoft uses now in 10.
1 u/8bCvYq2vpg 31 Mar 2016 06:21
Unity bar had spyware installed that marketed Amazon products to you based on searches. It was a partnership to keep the sinking Canonical ship afloat. It seems we're watching it take on more water than before.
0 u/thaddeus 31 Mar 2016 17:38
Yes, exactly! That's what it was. I couldn't remember.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28user_interface%29#Privacy_controversy
1 u/weezkitty 31 Mar 2016 05:18
And yet people wonder why I don't trust Canonical. Ubuntu is one Linux distro I can no longer recommend
0 u/b0utch 31 Mar 2016 02:05
What's the point?
0 u/8bCvYq2vpg 31 Mar 2016 06:16
Why?