I stand corrected

And pass remote control inputs

It’s superior in every way.

Not every way, it doesn’t do audio. That’s really the only downside.

Iptables was already there. Or the hosts file if you’re feeling lazy

It’s linux, there would be a million walkthroughs telling you how to patch or recompile it out within a day. I like that these distros are taking a stand but it’s not really going to move the needle much.

What should worry us is these policies coming to hardware. It’s much more difficult to modify firmware than an open source operating system.

It’s not often you see IPv5

According to the wayback machine that’s been their tagline for at least 15 years

Feb 19 2011

So you’ve never been to their website?

This. It’s inferior to slack by every metric except outlook/exchange integration, but it’s perfectly usable and apparently much cheaper.

Heck, you can’t even use it to give a slideshow without risking Windows Update deciding to reinstall your whole OS mid presentation! Ask me how I know.

There are several ways to prevent that. There’s a lot of valid criticism to be made about windows but it’s hard to take someone seriously who apparently doesn’t know how to use the OS.

Have you tried turning off thumbnails? In my experience when it slows down on large directories like that it’s either trying to generate thumbnails or index a bunch of new files (which is also a possibility in your use case)

Windows
mountvol (drive letter) /p

Just because you don’t know the command doesn’t mean it’s not possible.

Yeah. Always cross train, always document. What if John had died?

Wah, this company isn’t willing to spend time and money supporting my OS that’s been EOL for over 5 years

Native is faster than virtualized, who could have ever imagined.

Terminal servers, sccm, SQL, software that’s only available for Windows. Companies and governments don’t consider ideology when they choose a platform. They consider “what do I need to run this product” and “what’s the TCO”. Most larger orgs will have a healthy mix of windows and *nix servers and often a separate team to manage each.

Just about every government and business. I’m guessing you’ve never had a job in IT.

fr fr bro

It was. Hardware was absolute trash in the early-mid 90s.