Then tag with [CBH] as required.

Just an outside perspective here - its probably more about how you comment than what's in it.

If you replied to me like that I'd block you too.

I think you may be misremembering some osx fun with cups in the past, just like with Linux. Honestly most activities for the older folks these days is mobile or web based, the tech support needs for them is about the same regardless of OS imo.

Back when I did solo IT work (a good 20+ years ago now), the questions were pretty much the same no matter what was being used too, though the Linux desktops at the time were usually focused on specialty hardware (so the dot matrix they were connecting to was about as easy as it could get).

At the time though, macs were getting popular again, even among folks like me who appreciated Darwin and thought OSX would lean more heavily into open source rather than the outright thievery they ended up doing, but that part is neither here nor there.

I'd say back then it was maybe 65/25/10 split of windows/osx/linux (usually redhat there, and two machines with slack), but the questions were mostly the same. And no matter what OS it was, it usually became a request for me to just do it for them on my next trip over.

If anything, aside from specific bits of software that may be unique to an industry and someone actively working, which OS has gotten far, far, far less important than it used to be.

Wow, you are not only unable to accept that you're wrong, you make references to exactly what others have talked about, and then you act like a dick about it.

Your comments apparently add nothing of value, so... Goodbye.

Canonical was the early 2000s. Redhat was the early 90s. Inspire was the early 2000s. Collabara was mid-2000s. Ximiam was late 90s.

Not only was open source pretty popular, it had a not-insignificant group of companies working on it.

He's very much correct.

Thankfully a retired LTC got involved (back when we were first going through all the fun) who did an amazing job helping us navigate the mess that is the VA. Still kept in touch too.

But will definitely message if I run into any roadblocks, appreciate it!

Layers make keyboard go brrrrr

If it works for you, I've found running some things as a VM works better than dealing with windows.

Admittedly I have a lot of hardware due to what I do, but I've got (multiple, but just one is relevant in this case) proxmox server set up with an extremely tightened up windows 10 build. I've removed pretty much everything humanly possible on the windows side, just installing enough for the applications I need.

I then have a GPU that's passed through to it directly (that machine is headless otherwise). So I'm getting all the GPU acceleration, but without using anything else on Windows, it stays slim and trim so it runs pretty well, and it's pretty light on ram use.

With the second DP input of my monitor, I come off a video switcher but you can skip that and go right off the GPU. Now you've got a lightweight little VM directly connected to your display. Pass through your USB device of choice (I'm assuming a controller here, but you can use a second keyboard/mouse or USB host switch if you want).

Personally I find this approach easier since I don't have to deal with all the memory gobbling nonsense on the windows side, I get to do my daily work in Linux, and specialty stuff that I just can't run in wine stays readily available.

Nah, it's more of an issue with how the clients handle it then anything else.For example:

Raccoon:

Thunder:

And Eternity handling it correctly (font aside):

4321

Let's see if this one gets it done

42

The answer to life, the universe and everything.

I've got a small fleet of tmm's, so HA is just practical for me, but yeah that works to with a single machine. Especially if you were sharing desktop use on it.