On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:10:33 -0400, DFS wrote:

> On 10/24/2024 6:37 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:55:07 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> Your workstation has 4 dedicated Windows systems? Nice.
>>
>> If you prove you are good at your job, they promote you by taking away
>> 3 of them and leaving you with just 1.
>
> I made a similar joke here in the past ...

It was from the old Soviet Union: a competition where the winner got a
week’s holiday in, I dunno, Vladivostok.

The second prize was two weeks’ holiday in Vladivostok.

Think Microsoft Windows → centralized production, Soviet Union
Free Software → free-market competition with user choice

On 24 Oct 2024 23:06:24 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> Usually one computer, but they do love their monitors.

Windows never did multiple desktops very well, did it?

On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:07:21 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On 24 Oct 2024 23:06:24 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>
>> Usually one computer, but they do love their monitors.
>
> Windows never did multiple desktops very well, did it?

Windows 11 does it satisfactorily. Windows has been able to handle
multiple displays for a long time. With more hardware using DisplayPort
it's easier to set up. We did have one site that used a combination of
DisplayPort and HDMI that drove their IT people nuts.

That was one shortcoming of Windows. I'd tried the third party solutions
before the ability was incorporated into the OS and they were klunky.

Anyway, the dispatchers don't want multiple desktops, just multiple
applications displaying on multiple monitors.

Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote at 23:36 this Monday (GMT):
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>
>>> The existence of other kinds of devices in no way
>>> changes the unique usefulness of desktop/laptop computers.
>>
>>A lot of those laptops are also being replaced with Chromebooks. That
>>means further shrinking of the Windows market.
>
>
> There are a lot of desktop/laptop options, sure, but Winblows is still
> the default OS for them.

Yeah, because MacOS is locked to Apple and chromeOS is locked to
specific cheap laptops unless you go out of your way to install it.
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candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
wrote:
>Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote at 23:36 this Monday (GMT):
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>> The existence of other kinds of devices in no way
>>>> changes the unique usefulness of desktop/laptop computers.
>>>
>>>A lot of those laptops are also being replaced with Chromebooks. That
>>>means further shrinking of the Windows market.
>>
>> There are a lot of desktop/laptop options, sure, but Winblows is still
>> the default OS for them.
>
>Yeah, because MacOS is locked to Apple and chromeOS is locked to
>specific cheap laptops unless you go out of your way to install it.

Exactly.

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Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
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