My claim about Windows from the beginning in the 1990's was that no one ever bought Windows because they wanted to run Windows. They bought it because they wanted to run MS Office or some game or some other software that requires Windows. Or, I guess another reason is they bought it because it came pre-installed on some hardware they wanted. But very few people ever wanted just MS Windows
When Windows was new it actually was a kind of "shim" that went between the application and DOS to provide a window and mouse interface. Over time they made it into an actual OS but still to this day its real use is just way to run a certain class of graphical software. Linux is a little different in that Linux is just the OS. The graphical stuff you see is something added on and there are a half dozen popular windowing systems in use over top of Linux (Android being #1) Apple's Mac OS is kind of that way too. It is a big layer over top of UNIX. If would be good for Microsoft to split up Windows and make it a layer over a base OS so we can choose each independently. It might happen, don't know. Today except for home users, itis very common to run virtualized instances of Windows. The virtual images an exist on a server and run on desktop hardware and in this way the end user's Windows instance follows him to any random desktop hs sits at. Home users tend to use systems whwere the hardware is tried more firmly to the software with software being install on the local hard drive. But virtualization is widely used in the industry both for servers and desktops. But runf this on top is UNIX is not so common are runing on top of a "bare metal" viruralmachine, these can be much lighter weight. Microsoft's "Azure" cloud service provides millions of vertual machines and they say at least half of them run Linux. Even Microsoft is now agnostic about OSes and runs them in virtual hardware. On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 12:49 PM <tom-...@bgp.nu> wrote: > Indeed! I've always said one should run Windows as an application in Unix > as god intended ;-) > -Tom > > > > On Mar 23, 2019, at 11:35 PM, Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Almost all of this Windows BS goes away if you run Windows in a VM. > The > > easy and secure way to run Windows is to first install Linux (or use Mac > OS > > if on a Mac) and then a VM and then Windows. Then it does not need > video > > or wifi drivers and you can snapshot the new Windows 10 install and later > > if/when the system is messed up. click reset and get back to the last > > snapshot. You user data is likely on a file server so the reset will > > correct any issues nearly instantly > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
