{"id":16268,"date":"2026-05-13T20:06:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16268"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:06:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:06:49","slug":"meh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16268","title":{"rendered":"Meh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m seeing a lot (and I mean a lot) of articles aimed at W10 to Linux switchers. The point of most of these pieces seem to be aimed at making Linux into soft W10 clones and that’s surely not the way to go. If you’re going to jump out of the lap of Microsoft to Linux, you really should embrace the change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t blame folk for dumping Windows all together. W11 is clearly a substandard OS which has, according to Microsoft itself, ‘lost its way’, and they vow to ‘get W11 back on track’ at least once a month. But how long is it going to take them to turn that supertanker? A year? Maybe 2 years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the point is, articles like this<\/a> are just pointing people in the wrong direction. Making Linux feel like home? That’s a very strange piece of thinking. I’d start with the art of the possible, and not fanny around the edges with a little bit of look-and-feel GUI goodness. The heavy-lifting behind Linux is proportionately greater than the capabilities of Windows and macOS combined. And that trueism is bonkers because macOS is based on Unix and, as we all know, Unix and Linux are ‘brothers in arms’ (to give a Dire Straits song a gratuitous mention). But Apple choose to lockdown macOS, which robs it of the same range of freedom Linux has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My NAS (ah, you wondered when I was going to shoehorn that in, eh?) uses a custom Linux OS and I like it. I don’t want to make it like Microsoft because I enjoy the difference. I don’t often need to flip into CLI, I can do a strong 99% of what I want to do in GUI-world. Just today I installed a tracking utility I found in Github. It’s neat and it promises to give me data which, from time to time, I’m curious about. If this little experiment pans out and I’m going to install it on a bunch of websites. Yay for Linux! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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