They use Windows and MS Office on desktops to this day and use Linux on servers and some FOSS tools ON WINDOWS DESKTOPS.

Citation needed.

I know for a fact that there are no official numbers, and it’s estimated to be a split between the two OSes.

You claimed that Munich said “Hell no” to Microsoft Migration but here you spell it out yourself: The politicians did sell out to Microsoft and only newly elected politicians partially reversed it.

Ya, I’m not sure which part confuses you, but I’ll try to help:

• Politician A sells out to MS

• Migration back to Windows begins

• Politician B gets elected

• Politician B says “hell no” (hyperbole) to Microsoft switch back

• Politician B halts the migration

Still confused? Then I can’t help you.

Are you afraid to provide any reference to your claim? Do you need extra time making up stuff?

No. Just calling out your double standard. If you didn’t provide sources for your statements, then it’s rich for you to demand sources from me.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-is-shifting-back-from-microsoft-to-open-source-again/

https://youtu.be/XBRh2G29NNE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

“In May 2020, it was reported that the newly elected politicians in Munich, while not going back to the original plan of migrating to LiMux wholesale, will prefer Free Software for future endeavours.”

There are no official numbers, but the rollback to Windows was halted. It’s estimated that it’s currently a mix of Linux and Windows. And it’s been acknowledged that the move back to Windows was almost entirely political due to influence from Microsoft.

You first

Don’t listen to that other commenter. They’re wrong about the Munich LiMux story. It keeps getting repeated but it’s not correct.

No, please stop with this garbage misinformation. Microsoft made a (suspected) under the table deal with the Munich government at the time to setup a Microsoft office in Munich if they switched back to Windows.

That’s what the news reported on endlessly. That’s the narrative that keeps getting falsely repeated over and over, and no one ever checks the BS stories they spread.

The rest of the story didn’t make headlines, where the new incoming Munich government said “hell no!” (prob in German) and continued the Linux rollout.

Today the environment is a mix of Linux and Windows, but they already have a large focus on FOSS software.

Despite the astonishingly stupid decision to roll their own in-house distro (LiMux), the program was massively successful, with Linux users filling only 40% the number of tickets the Windows users did.

Edit: I’m correcting something I said, they didn’t “continue the Linux rollout” as they had already covered most of their systems. The current status is a mix of Windows and Linux, because they vetoed the rollback to Windows in 2020.

Microsoft doesn’t hold a copyright worldwide for product names.

I’ve been doing active development for high processing stuff (computer vision and AI) on a Xeon 1230v5 (Skylake), 32GB of RAM, and a 1080ti up until a few months ago (before RAM prices skyrocketed). It was perfectly usable.

The only place where it didn’t do well was in compile times and newer AAA games that were CPU bound. But for 99% of games it was fine.

The only time I ran into RAM issues was when I had a lot of browser tabs open and multiple IDEs running. For gaming and any other non-dev task, 32GB is more than plenty.

I don’t think it’s so black and white.

Legal Eagle did a video about this. Ultimately an American soldier is liable for carrying out illegal orders. Refusing illegal orders is extremely complicated, but carrying them out is still illegal and they are subject to the law. It doesn’t matter if they were “just following orders”.

https://youtu.be/wkaS3-9WvM8

Edit: spelling

like the proud boys

I thought they all signed up for ICE?

Interesting. I wonder how many of them are the ones deployed to the streets.

Are we talking about “people who do things that ICE is criticized for”? No.

I literally said:

It just occurred to me that I don’t think I’ve seen a photo of a single brown, black, or Asian ICE agent. They’re all white, aren’t they?

I didn’t say “no US agency has non-white individuals”.

My comment was specifically referring to ICE agents, and the context was specifically about the ones out and about creating chaos in the streets.

Those aren’t ICE agents, they’re Border Patrol which is part of CBP. I’m not even American and even I know this.

Trees are free rope?

My fervent hope is that, someday in the future, people can build a gaming PC and just forego Windows to save $100.

That’s what you said. And I’m not even sure what you mean by “I ment who build a custom PC. That’s reality bro.”

The reality is that a good portion of gamers either build their own systems or buy “custom built” systems from a company that builds them. It’s mainly only OEM manufacturers that include a Windows license, like HP, Lenovo, MSI, and generally laptops.

So ultimately there’s no scenario where your comment makes sense.

So you’re telling me that someone who builds a custom PC with the intention of installing Linux will go out and buy a Windows license?

Really? Have any photos?

Go with Bazzite. It’s built off of Bluefin which is an atomic version of Fedora.

Bazzite has all the accoutrements for gaming built into it.

Go with Mint, Pop!_Os, or Bazzite.

Ubuntu is only really a good choice if you want corporate/business level support. And even then there are other options.

I recently poked around online to see if my rtx5070ti would be supported and found a bunch of people facing issues, and that Mint and Ubuntu weren’t recommended.

No idea what you could have been reading, but by and large, there’s very little difference between distros when it comes to GPU drivers.

However, if you want the smoothest experience, then just use a distro that comes with drivers that install with the OS. Best one I can recommend is Bazzite. You won’t have to mess around with GPU drivers at all and it doesn’t matter which Nvidia card you have, they all use the exact same drivers.

Works like a beauty