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Remote desktop vs. remote display

Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 16, 2013 11:32 UTC (Sat) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: Remote desktop vs. remote display by apoelstra
Parent article: LCA: The ways of Wayland

I ran the same installation of Windows XP Home for something like five or six years without needing to reinstall, and I've never had a Windows XP Pro installation at work's lifespan be shorter than the corporate desktop-PC replacement cycle. Fact is, a Linux box whose user treats it as cavalierly as most people treat their Windows boxes will break.


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Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 16, 2013 15:45 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

Fact is, a Linux box whose user treats it as cavalierly as most people treat their Windows boxes will break.

Could you provide a citation, please?

Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 22, 2013 17:23 UTC (Fri) by Pawlerson (guest, #74136) [Link]

I ran the same installation of Windows XP Home for something like five or six years without needing to reinstall, and I've never had a Windows XP Pro installation at work's lifespan be shorter than the corporate desktop-PC replacement cycle. Fact is, a Linux box whose user treats it as cavalierly as most people treat their Windows boxes will break.
I recommend you to stop telling us some fairy tells. I reinstall windows boxes quite often, so you won't trick me. Fact is Linux doesn't break unless you break it intentionally. Windows breaks, because it's broken by design.

Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 22, 2013 17:44 UTC (Fri) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

It appears to me that it is your intent to state that I have knowingly made a false statement (I admit that there was a slight error - the Windows XP Home installation I recently abandoned due to purchasing a new desktop PC was only three years old - but it was accidental and certainly not in the land of "fairy tales"). Would you like to disabuse me of this impression, or is it correct?

Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 22, 2013 18:49 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

"Fact is Linux doesn't break unless you break it intentionally."

I have *no* idea how I managed to get paid for most of the past 5 years, then.

Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Mar 5, 2013 21:18 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Why this didn't make QOTW I have no idea.

Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 26, 2013 13:38 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

>Fact is Linux doesn't break unless you break it intentionally.

Aha, haha, haaahaaahaHAHAAAAaa
HAHAHAHAHA.
*snort*
hah.

That's probably the most hilarious thing I've heard in the last three years.

Hehe.
teehee
Ow. My abdomen hurts.
uhumhee

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