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    Seamless OS v.

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by yjacket2001, May 25, 2015.

  1. yjacket2001

    yjacket2001 Notebook Geek

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    Is there a seamless OS version I can put on my MSI GS60 Ghost Pro-064?
    I am not a graduate of computer science, but heard it was supposed to be the rage in engineering school back the late mid nineteen eighties.

    I think the world is waiting to free us from our current evolved win-tel nightmare, but nothing has happened in thirty years. Only computer science users are STILL using linux (or their parents.) Unix is the most user unfriendly system there is, and I'm wondering if I can obtain any benefit for the exertion of a part time job learning how to use it. Computer science is a difficult discipline and it does strange things to you physiologically due to self neglect. Is the price to pay, doing nothing else in your life, or is this just an IT fraternity?

    Theoretically, it's the best: I can see that. But is there no Bill Gates for the common man to make this work to any degree as a consumer product for the masses? How many millions of if-then and while loops have to be needlessly coded in mass repetition? Unless you are a programmer, not many will be coded. I have coded before, but it is only rewarding if you are getting big bucks for it. So is this the great-white-hope for IT grads since Bill Gates uses Indian and Chinese programmers? Well it hasn't gone too far in 30 years, so I would not hold my breath on that hope: unless someone starts making a useful product for the masses. Where is that product?

    Thank you kindly for your dedicated studies.
     
    yjacket2001, May 25, 2015
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  2. Starlight5

    Starlight5 Yes, I'm a cat. What else is there to say, really?

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    yjacket2001, of what I tried, Kali is damn nice and very impressive. There are very good distros for certain purposes, however those claiming to be universal kinda fail compared to Windows, in my opinion. I am not a Linux expert in any way, though, and mostly use it on ARM devices.
     
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  3. Primes

    Primes Notebook Deity

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    I would probably suggest something based off of Ubuntu LTS (long term support) so you don't have to do any installs for a few years. Other than that, maybe a distro with a rolling release.

    tldr; or get a mac.
     
    Primes, May 29, 2015
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  4. KCETech1

    KCETech1 Notebook Prophet

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    far too limited unless you don't want to actually dig under the hood. IF they could get around to improving the file system too it would be nice as OSX at its core is far behind even many basic distros ...... its just easy for average users to use though.
     
    KCETech1, Jun 1, 2015
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