Another shop goes 100% Linux with CachyOS!

[Sky-Knight]

Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 as employee number 30, brought in by Bill Gates.
He wasn’t a technologist, he was a business and sales guy, and he helped turn Microsoft into a serious commercial machine.
In 2000 he became CEO, right as the dot-com bubble burst.
His tenure covered some tough years: antitrust trials, intense competition, and rapid changes in consumer tech.
That said, Microsoft’s revenue roughly tripled while he was in charge.
He pushed hard into enterprise software and oversaw the rise of Xbox as a major business.
Where he’s most criticised is mobile. Microsoft clearly missed the smartphone wave.
Ballmer himself became famous for his loud, energetic, almost theatrical leadership style.
In 2013 he announced his retirement, stepping down as CEO in early 2014.
At that point he still owned about 4% of Microsoft.
That stake was worth roughly $20–25 billion at the time of his retirement.

Today he's got almost 140 billion reasons not to give a rats arse what anyone thinks anymore...

Correct, he's the greedy ruthless business muscle that made Microsoft into the uncaring juggernaut it is today. That isn't to say what he did was wrong, but it's ethically problematic relative to most of us. Anyway, this is a distraction I think. Ballmer is IMHO more directly responsible for the reasons why Windows is the way it is today. Gates and Ballmer both have a hand in it of course, and I'm not a fan of reductive arguments.

I am however happy to see someone making use of Cachy... I need to try that one. I still don't think I can get much traction convincing people to do this, but if costs keep going up the market is going to force the issue at some point. The "when" of this is the real debate. It's been "imminent" for most of my career.

 

[trevm999]

Slowly, Windows just stops being the right tool for the job.

As a software company, we used to write software to run on Windows servers and Windows desktop. Now we write software for Android and Linux servers. We have resource overhead to pay develop locally on Windows, which isn't insignificant at today's hardware prices. From boot to having our full stack running is 32GB of memory in use. At some point it just doesn't make sense to use Windows.

 

[GTP]

But the content of the thread, from the opening post, frames the move to 100% Linux against the backdrop of Microsoft and Windows.

I don’t disagree that Microsoft frames the context. I was more noting the inevitability that even a “100% Linux” discussion still ends up revolving around Windows - which, ironically, reinforces the original motivation for leaving it behind.
As Peter Drucker put it, “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.”

 

[frase]

Ballmer himself became famous for his loud, energetic, almost theatrical leadership style.

Cocaine.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Cocaine.

Better than ketamine!

 

[timeshifter]

Developers, developers, developers, … developers

 

[GTP]

Cocaine.

Well he can afford all the "hookers and blow" he can handle....

 

[GTP]

I can't even count the number of times over the years when I've run Linux

I want to switch but I need a WiFi for my PC that is recognized

I've never had an issue with wifi on Linux, in fact I've had wifi cards that would not work on Windows but worked perfectly with Linux.

 

[Blues]

I understand many don't but my case the WiFi in my current desktop does not work mostly looking at Nobara as I like Fedora based systems so far and it adds many things for my Gaming needs at home but right now I can tell you my WiFi is not recognized by the following OSes: Mint, Nobara, or Bazzite.

 

[britechguy]

@Blues

In the end, it might be worth looking at changing out your WiFi card to one that is supported. That is likely to be a far easier solution than finding a Linux driver for an obscure card (and I have to believe that's what's involved) where support is not already there.

As there are now data points from several of us that we have never run into this issue, and across multiple distros and pieces of hardware on which they were installed, the likely easy solution is to swap out the offending WiFi card.

 

[Blues]

@Blues

In the end, it might be worth looking at changing out your WiFi card to one that is supported. That is likely to be a far easier solution than finding a Linux driver for an obscure card (and I have to believe that's what's involved) where support is not already there.

As there are now data points from several of us that we have never run into this issue, and across multiple distros and pieces of hardware on which they were installed, the likely easy solution is to swap out the offending WiFi card.

Which is the plan just as my post first mentioning ask for recommendations

 

[GTP]

WiFi is not recognized by the following OSes: Mint, Nobara, or Bazzite.

I find your comment puzzling and confusing. I've used more than a dozen distros and flavours of those distro's all the way back to Xandros, Yellow Dog, Red Hat and especially Linux Mint from it's first release. Many installs of Ubuntu, Bodhi, Bazzite, Fedora, and lots more. Never ever encountered Wifi hardware that wasn't recognised.

I would be especially interested in the make and model number of the card and the chipset it uses, if you care to provide it please.

 

[phaZed]

My bet's on a MediaTek or Killer WIFI of a newer variety.

 

[Blues]

Off hand IIRC it is a TP Link PCIe card but I remember in my attempts to find what I needed for it to work on Linux it uses a Broadcom chipset. I would have to dig to find it again and IIRC it is just an 802.11n card so fairly old at this point.

 

[phaZed]

TP Link PCIe Broadcom 802.11n card so fairly old at this point.

My bet's on a MediaTek or Killer WIFI of a newer variety.

Welp. That's why I don't bet, folks

 

[Blues]

TP Link Archer T6E I don't mind replacing the card anyways probably go USB at this point too I think back when I got that card it was inexpensive means to get more current wifi than what I had previously.

 

[phaZed]

That one should work. What's your distro?

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=292225

If not this old advice, you may need to install

broadcom-wl

 

[Blues]

I have tried the latest Mint, Nobara, & Bazzite and installing anything is problematic w/o internet so far and getting internet to this computer w/o the WiFi is not easily done.

 

[fincoder]

tried the latest Mint, Nobara, & Bazzite and installing anything is problematic w/o internet so far

Still with that ancient WiFi card? I'm surprised you haven't upgraded it anyway, considering it's likely reducing your internet speed.

 

[Blues]

Still with that ancient WiFi card? I'm surprised you haven't upgraded it anyway, considering it's likely reducing your internet speed.

Well I am cheap and while I recognize my speeds are limited it really isn't so slow I feel like I must upgrade. I mainly notice the speed limitations when I am moving large files from my desktop to my NAS but I just let those run overnight or while I'm away from the computer.