Solved HELP! New Win11 Accounts with Administrator rights not able to modify C drive

Berton · Aug 1, 2024

I have to agree with @pparks1, Linux is not dead and is slowly gaining in usage. Considering that www.distrowatch.com lists about a hundred different iterations available for free there should be something for just about everyone. There's a couple things easier for me to do with Linux in manipulating drives in a USB Dual-Bay Drive Dock so I keep Mint with the Cinnamon desktop on an older Custom tower I was given for parts but works fine with Linux. Sometimes having more choices makes wider usage take longer.

pparks1 · Aug 1, 2024

Linux on the desktop has always been a challenge. There are a variety of reasons for it. Here are some;

Lots of prebuilt computers don't come with it, and lots of people who use computers don't change the operating system
There are tons of Linux distributions out there, each catering to a specific need or niche area. Nobody will ever agree on the best distro, because it's not a 1 size fits all. It's easier to support the world on the desktop when there is Windows or Mac. It's one or the other. Can you imagine the installation FAQ for a video game if it supported it's install on windows, mac and 112 linux distributions? For this reason, I don't think Linux lends itself well to the desktop
hardware vendors don't necessarily provide support and drivers and such, thus getting all peripherals working is hard. Not to mention, Linux is an open-source system, and closed source software and drivers...while they work...aren't exactly the intention of the OS.
There is probably way more typing at a terminal than the average user wants. For experienced people, the terminal is not an issue. Heck, 99.8% of all of my linux machines don't even have a GUI installed.

Linux in the server room, data center, cloud provider though....is the defacto standard. Also the standard on a lot of hardware devices like routers, IoT devices, smart phones (android) , etc.. While it may not be obvious, it's there. It's Linux.

P Nguyen · Aug 3, 2024

pparks1 said:
Linux on the desktop has always been a challenge. There are a variety of reasons for it. Here are some;

Lots of prebuilt computers don't come with it, and lots of people who use computers don't change the operating system

There are tons of Linux distributions out there, each catering to a specific need or niche area. Nobody will ever agree on the best distro, because it's not a 1 size fits all. It's easier to support the world on the desktop when there is Windows or Mac. It's one or the other. Can you imagine the installation FAQ for a video game if it supported it's install on windows, mac and 112 linux distributions? For this reason, I don't think Linux lends itself well to the desktop

hardware vendors don't necessarily provide support and drivers and such, thus getting all peripherals working is hard. Not to mention, Linux is an open-source system, and closed source software and drivers...while they work...aren't exactly the intention of the OS.

There is probably way more typing at a terminal than the average user wants. For experienced people, the terminal is not an issue. Heck, 99.8% of all of my linux machines don't even have a GUI installed.

Linux in the server room, data center, cloud provider though....is the defacto standard. Also the standard on a lot of hardware devices like routers, IoT devices, smart phones (android) , etc.. While it may not be obvious, it's there. It's Linux.

I totally agree with you Linux experts on the hardcore technical engineering aspects of Linux. However, the mass majority of PC users only want to do the normal everyday stuff (eg reading emails, surf the Web) and are forced to use only Windows since Windows 1.0 was born. And countless iterations of Windows upgrades ("ahem" bug fixes that people had to pay extra every time). I still like Windows 7 Pro (with a good firewall and anti-virus) over Windows 11 for the everyday stuff I do and I don't need a Super Cray computer to run it.