I am afraid that is the state of affairs.
Languages get impatient with the slow pace of Debian releases and go their own way.
With Python, sometimes there is a choice between a Ddbian package and a pip install.
Julia goes one step further and has its internal libraries on the internet, rather than in the language install packageā¦ so you cant compile without the internet.
Thanks for the link, will try to follow and do but there are questions I just donāt know the answer to
Was hoping it would be easy just give my current address and it did the next bit for meā¦ā¦ but not the case !
I do vol tech support for low-information users, so I keep and use Windows for troubleshooting my āvictimsā needs. My fear is that MS might try to force a hardware change that would be another barrier to Linux.
They already do that and have been changing the goalposts posts for some time,
I am aware of that, but I am not aware of MS pushing any blatant anti-Linux changes. I believe hardware mfgrs have ventured there, but MS?
Its a debatable point, who drives the bus MS or hardware?
If MS says we need to sell more the hardware companies say how high (do we jump) the hardware companies want to sell more boxes so we get windows 7, 8, 10 and now 11. With higher specs needed.
When you have market leaders they push each other. When you consider windows 3.1 with office did everything we needed. What do we do now thats so much different. Except for the internet.
Thats why linux is good less system spec, older machines and still capable of most home or office requirements
I wouldnāt put it past Microsoft to do something like that, at least in light of their recent behavior in recent years, but if they do that, the solution is to make your GNU/Linux distribution the only OS installed on your computer, then install Windows into a VM (I prefer QEMU/KVM because of the great performance it provides for itās VMs) so we can continue using it (Windows) if we want or need to.
On the other hand, based on recent events (the end of support for Windows 10, and the major issues, mostly for enterprise customers, the November update has introduced), if they donāt improve, Microsoft may be the author of their own demise. By driving so many users (mostly residential) away by ending support for Windows 10, and with how sloppy they have become with the quality of their updates, even for enterprise customers, GNU/Linux could become the OS of choice for many residential users (they can continue to use their current hardware by installing a new OS), which in turn could make the transition away from Windows easier for enterprise customers, because more and more of their employees will become accustomed to the GNU/Linux OS, reducing re-training costs.
Currently, I think that Microsoft has forgotten, or never learned several important lessons:
- They owe their profitability to their customers.
- We tend to get as good as we give (more on this below).
- Without their customerās trust, no organization can survive for long.
- Greed provides short term profit, but long term loss.
I often hear people say āI can give as good as I get!ā, meaning that they can hold their own in any conflict, but the reality is that no matter how good you are, there will always be someone better. Iāve also heard people say āWhat you give will come back to you ten-fold!ā, which Iāve found to be the truer of these two statements in the more than seven decades of my life.
All in all, I suppose weāll have to see what comes, and deal with it as we go ā¦
Ernie