Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10

Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by inDigiNeous on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:22AM (#15905065)

If you want to get some work done, and not just fiddle around with getting wifi, sleep, graphics working, then installing Linux is not an option.

Linux could be the new Mac os X if all the Linux distributions chose to focus on one platform and way to do things, but nobody in the Linux world is going to do this.

Also, Mac has unified hardware, so they pretty much can optimize so that stuff Just Works.

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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by ptaipale on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:17AM (#15906120)

I haven't had any trouble with Linux desktop on mainstream laptops for the past 15 or so years. The days of hand tweaking your Xfree86 configuration files and refresh rates are gone.

Of course there are things that are not working so nicely, and are not meant to. For instance, running RHEL (which is a server OS) on a laptop (which typically has new optimized hardware which is not meant to be server) and then expecting graphics and WiFi work on a kernel that is much older than your hardware and thus has no drivers.

Perhaps you might expect some trouble also when running Windows Server 2012 on a new laptop? I don't know, I haven't tried, but wouldn't be surprised.

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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @12:01PM (#15907140)

> I haven't had any trouble with Linux desktop on mainstream laptops for the past 15 or so years.

And so therefore, no one else has either!

One of the big reasons Linux Desktop still sucks is the outright refusal of the community to acknowledge any of its problems.

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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by WalterGR on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @12:12PM (#15907267)

I haven't had any trouble with Linux desktop on mainstream laptops for the past 15 or so years.

How do you define "mainstream laptop"? Or is it a laptop that can run desktop Linux without problems?

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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by ForHackernews on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:29AM (#15905107)

You can buy a laptop that ships with Linux, and then you get the same works-out-of-the-box experience as a Mac.

The Dell XPS 13 is a good choice if you want something from a major manufacturer, but there are loads of smaller companies, too.

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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by inDigiNeous on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @05:52AM (#15913440)

Thanks for the tip. Might consider that in the future. Probably not though, as mac OS is such a better OS. But the hacker in me still kinda likes the idea of Linux, used to run it as my main OS for long time before Mac Os X.

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