Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish
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We have one staffer that feels that they can't use Linux because they have special apps and do special non-IT tasks that require things that don't run on Linux. And the make a good case for it. However, in their case, those special apps don't run on Windows, either, and they need a macOS machine.
So in the only example that we have readily in house, the idea that "there are cases that every OS is needed, sometimes" certainly holds up. But that Windows meets the needs by "doing everything" completely doesn't. It doesn't do our normal IT tasks well, it doesn't work well on our IT and standard management hardware, and when it comes to "special needs", it fails just as much as Linux does.
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@scottalanmiller said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
@Emad-R said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
What about GPU performance? and drivers for that
Yup, extremely good. Works just the same for me. So that's a non-issue unless you are doing something crazy.
Especially with ATI. They have repos you just pull the vendor drivers from.
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@stacksofplates said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
@scottalanmiller said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
@Emad-R said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
What about GPU performance? and drivers for that
Yup, extremely good. Works just the same for me. So that's a non-issue unless you are doing something crazy.
Especially with ATI. They have repos you just pull the vendor drivers from.
Oh yeah, AMD/ATI are great. Way better on Windows, too. I recently moved my big machine that used Nvidia over to AMD/ATI and what a difference it made for the drivers. Same thing on our Linux desktops (we did those a while ago, like 1+ years ago.) They got so much better just using AMD.
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Responding from a machine that Windows doesn't support its hardware
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@scottalanmiller said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
Responding from a machine that Windows doesn't support its hardware
Same :face_with_hand_over_mouth:
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@Obsolesce said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
@scottalanmiller said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
Responding from a machine that Windows doesn't support its hardware
Same :face_with_hand_over_mouth:
I should have said a desktop device. LOL. I could have been on a phone and that wouldn't have meant much
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@scottalanmiller said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
@Emad-R said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
I know this will get alot of hate, but it just takes alot of effort and patience to make linux work with peripherals and once you do keeping your system up to date is difficult it might botch your manual configs..
Actually I find the opposite. We have continuous issues with Windows (but less than in the past for sure) and essentially zero with Linux.
LOL - I've been waiting on this post since I read the OP!
ROFLOL - Scott almost always seem to have this sitting there for nearly any occasion.
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@Dashrender said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
Scott almost always seem to have this sitting there for nearly any occasion.
Well it's an every day thing. We run Linux for one set of users and Windows for another. And Windows generates essentially 100% of the support needs. All kinds of problems, all the time. It's an MSP gold mine. As long as we avoid it internally, that it has problems is great for us, it pays the bills. We only recommend it when a customer really needs it. And they only really need it when they've created a situation that forces that on themselves. So we never feel badly that it is out there, the customers are always creating these problems for themselves, we do all we can to protect them from themselves. So that it generates hours like crazy anyway, is just good job assurance.
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@scottalanmiller said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
it has problems is great for us, it pays the bills. We only recommend it when a customer really needs it. And they only really
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@scottalanmiller said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
@Emad-R said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
I know this will get alot of hate, but it just takes alot of effort and patience to make linux work with peripherals and once you do keeping your system up to date is difficult it might botch your manual configs..
Actually I find the opposite. We have continuous issues with Windows (but less than in the past for sure) and essentially zero with Linux. In fact, when printing to our Brother printers here in the office, anyone with Windows has to get someone with Ubuntu to print for them! On Ubuntu it works with zero config, on Windows, it always breaks.
Good luck finding printer driver and PPD file and all the manual config to get quality prints, sure Linux may print, but my exp was bad margins. man its so left out google dont provide downloads for it gdrive client. everything is hack or workaround . why do we do this again ?
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@Emad-R said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
Good luck finding printer driver and PPD file and all the manual config to get quality prints, sure Linux may print, but my exp was bad margins. man its so left out google dont provide downloads for it gdrive client. everything is hack or workaround . why do we do this again ?
WUT?
You went from printer margins to gdrive issues and there not being a fat client..
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@scottalanmiller said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
mRemoteNG
Cause windows is better at managing Linux at a scale. you have many softwares for that
WinSCP
mRemoteNGLinux is just server, and it uses SSH as single port of administrator, so my point is with Windows you get the best of everything. and once your inside Linux server your in, it doesnt matter from where you SShed from.
My point is the best linux admin tool is windows
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@Emad-R said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
@scottalanmiller said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
mRemoteNG
Cause windows is better at managing Linux at a scale. you have many softwares for that
WinSCP
mRemoteNGLinux is just server, and it uses SSH as single port of administrator, so my point is with Windows you get the best of everything. and once your inside Linux server your in, it doesnt matter from where you SShed from.
My point is the best linux admin tool is windows
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/260/099/be0.png
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@Emad-R said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
@scottalanmiller said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
@Emad-R said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
I know this will get alot of hate, but it just takes alot of effort and patience to make linux work with peripherals and once you do keeping your system up to date is difficult it might botch your manual configs..
Actually I find the opposite. We have continuous issues with Windows (but less than in the past for sure) and essentially zero with Linux. In fact, when printing to our Brother printers here in the office, anyone with Windows has to get someone with Ubuntu to print for them! On Ubuntu it works with zero config, on Windows, it always breaks.
Good luck finding printer driver and PPD file and all the manual config to get quality prints, sure Linux may print, but my exp was bad margins. man its so left out google dont provide downloads for it gdrive client. everything is hack or workaround . why do we do this again ?
That's the point. It IS easier, consistently. Zero issues. Zero. Windows, yeah, constant driver issues.
Nothing is a hack, no workarounds, ever.
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@Emad-R said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
@scottalanmiller said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
mRemoteNG
Cause windows is better at managing Linux at a scale. you have many softwares for that
WinSCP
mRemoteNGLinux is just server, and it uses SSH as single port of administrator, so my point is with Windows you get the best of everything. and once your inside Linux server your in, it doesnt matter from where you SShed from.
My point is the best linux admin tool is windows
No one piece of this is making sense. SSH is like RDP, it's just a protocol. Windows uses it too.
I can, and do, admin Windows from Linux because, at any scale, it makes my life easier. Not as easy as not having Windows at all, but if I have to work on it, I might as well be efficient.
Windows uses SSH just like Linux. So it is easy.
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@Emad-R said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
Cause windows is better at managing Linux at a scale. you have many softwares for that
WinSCP
mRemoteNGLinux has all this kind of stuff, too. And both have it built in. You don't need third party software from Windows or Linux to do SSH remotely. And all of it is bidirectional. SSH works the same from and to either platform.
Why dont you use Windows' own tools? I have to use Windows to work on Linux every day, and I never see a need for extra tools. The built in ones work really well.
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@Emad-R said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
why do we do this again ?
We do it because it's the easiest, most reliable, least problematic, most stable, broadest support, least effort, least hacking and manual config option available. Every reason you say not to use it, is exactly why. Because everything you are finding hard we consistently find to be zero effort. Absolutely all the hardware that we'd want to use in the real world "just works", even when on Windows it does not. It allows us to work easily on old hardware that Windows can't handle. On hardware types that Windows won't consider. Because it lowers our cost.
Business owners understand that it's the TCO and as a business owner, Linux makes my team more efficient to get work done, while lowering their cost to support. It's that simple.
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From a Linux Desktop, you can browse multiple protocols without additional applications. I personally use FileZilla Client but I've also use WinSCP too.
From a Nautilus File Manager:
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@Emad-R said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
@scottalanmiller said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
mRemoteNG
Cause windows is better at managing Linux at a scale. you have many softwares for that
WinSCP
mRemoteNGLinux is just server, and it uses SSH as single port of administrator, so my point is with Windows you get the best of everything. and once your inside Linux server your in, it doesnt matter from where you SShed from.
My point is the best linux admin tool is windows
You're just trolling at this point. You've either literally never used a Linux based OS or you are making false claims on purpose. Because saying things like WinSCP is good for managing Linux at scale clearly shows you have no clue what's going on. Maybe "at scale" to you is like 6 machines?
Btw you still haven't responded to any posts that have real world examples.
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@stacksofplates said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:
Btw you still haven't responded to any posts that have real world examples.
Classic troll behavior.
