[dba-Tech] PCs are here to stay

How could that be a bad thing? It has already resulted in much improve video card drivers for nvidia and ati with better hardware performance, because these companies now have a greater incentive to not do a half assed job of it. :)

- Hans

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On 2013-01-14, at 7:33 PM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I think that says it all Arthur.
> 
> Linux is no longer for just geeks but for anyone. Everyone should have a
> copy if it is only for fun. (It very nicely installs itself as a dual boot
> if you don't have enough PCs while not cramping the existing system)
> 
> I have virtually zero interest in PC games and therefore Linux suited me
> very well but it seems with a number of major game distributors migrating
> their game engines onto the Linux platform that is all going change. I am
> not sure whether that pleases me.
> 
> Jim  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 5:19 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] PCs are here to stay
> 
> While my experience is limited pretty much to Ubuntu and Mint, and so I
> can't opine about how far the others have come, I will go so far as to
> suggest that pretty much anybody, even a brand-new  user, can set up a
> Linux system now. It takes nothing more than booting from a CD or DVD. If
> you can do that, you can run Linux. Obviously such a user may never see a
> command line, but then he has no need to.
> 
> A.
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