Maybe not a super beginner question, but what do awk and sed do and how do I use them?

This is almost certainly Ubuntu server

I also use Veeam at home for this. It’s not FOSS, but it is still free, and works really well.

They’re mostly banking on the cost of change being higher than the inconvenience of staying.

It’s staggeringly uncommon for the desktop side of things outside of machines running a specialty app or a particularly tech-savvy IT guy.

The issue is that Windows is just really good at centralized user management and policy control. You can do all those things in Linux too but it’s significantly more complicated and harder to manage.

Yes, that is what I meant.

Language is hard sometimes

This is more likely a case where the people that were only outside were never even convicted of a crime.

The FBI seems to be after the people they have credible evidence of actually engaging in violence or planned violence.

I use VLC

Windows comes pre-installed on PCs when you buy them because it’s what people are generally comfortable using, because it’s what they use at work too.

And Windows is used on business PCs largely because of how manageable they are at scale. Windows is expensive. Like, really expensive. If you have 1000 PCs that have Windows and Office E3, assuming a bulk discount, that’s an up front cost of ~$200000 with the subscription costing an additional ~$20000/month. If it was feasible for business to change to a free alternative, I guarantee they would’ve done so.

You’re right in that that Windows is not some super great OS, but it does some things way better than anything else that make it an ideal choice for business use.

In this case specifically, they are doing the right thing, but for all the wrong reasons.

You’re right. Oracle is definitely not the good guy here, it’s just that their goals happen to align right now.

Windows is the defacto standard for desktop PCs for a reason. In a corporate setting it’s kind of the ideal.

Because of the sheer number of users, most software is built with Windows in mind and therefore has the most support. It’s pretty rare that you find an application that doesn’t have a Windows build available.

On top of that tools like Active Directory, and group policy makes managing thousands of machines at scale a reasonably simple affair.

Microsoft is a corporation rather than a community so you can always expect their main goals to be profit-driven and that comes with some nasty baggage, but it’s not enough that it’s easy for professionals to make the switch.

Linux has made lightspeed progress over the last decade, especially with Proton making games mostly work cross platform, but outside of specialist use cases, the vast majority of business PCs and by extension home PCs will be running Windows for the foreseeable future.

This is an enemy of my enemy case.

It makes sense to trust Oracle in this instance as they stand to lose if IBM has sole control over enterprise Linux.

However, remember that as soon as the profit motive is gone, Oracle’s support will also vanish.

Alma, Rocky, or Oracle if you’re looking for a direct replacement for RHEL

There are exactly 2 things keeping me from switching to Linux full time.

Microsoft Office (I am aware of open/LibreOffice and the web version, but all are still lacking some feature or another)

Parsec hosting (I started doing weekly remote movie nights over the pandemic and parsec is basically the perfect drop-in solution for that)