I have 3 Sun/Oracle servers (running OpenBSD), and two AMD workstations (running Devuan). ls, rm. vi, tar, etc all work the same, and I use Mate for my UI.

Most people can switch from petrol manual to EV without much sweat.

Someone is TEACHING people that changing OS is hard, but most manage to switch between Windows versions without tears.
I found switching from Windows XP to Windows 10 very hard. (I never used anything Windows in between).

Windows is a HORRIBLE security risk. I would not want it on company premises.

Admittedly, it is annoying when things are just a little bit different between systems;

Which is why all makes of car are exactly identical!

Or can you tell a Fiat 500 from a Ford F150?

Have no fear - very soon Europe will do what should have been done years ago, and understand that Word files beocme unreadable after a while so you ahve to pay MS for a new version of Windows.

If your data is important or valuable you should be using open document formats because then they will still be readable when you need them to prove something in courts - like you own your house or something!

Most Governments ought to refuse files in Word format, and fairly soon Europe will do this.

As IBM used to say "THINK!"

You don't have to use a command line to run desktop Linux.

No. But you do need to know what time zone you are in and what your name is, and then make up a password.

IME, most people can't even manage to make up a password, and half of them don't even know what planet they are on, let alone what a timezone is!

Last time I used windows, I think it set the date to "1 January 1970" and I could still use it. How hard would it be for Linux to ask the Internet what timezone it is in, and use that for a default? Hell, for a few more lies of code, it could set the user's name to "Me" and the password to "password", then we could have real idiots on the net. (But I am not convinced it would be a good thing).

" something without commercial support"

Have you ever tried to get support from Microsoft? They just put you on hold till you give up. OTOH I have had Open Source authors email me bug fixes to test with in a couple of days of reporting actual bugs. For anything else RTFM!

The real problem with free software is:
IT DOES NOT HAVE A MARKETING BUDGET

And most people are too stupid to buy anything that is not rammed down their throats by "influencers".

But are you old enough to remember me saying my goal was "world Domination" on a DEC10 over DecNet?

Before Windows was invented.

The truth is It is us oldies that brought you Unix/Linux.
Take your "old people can't do it" and stick it. My mother learned to type on a cardboard picture of a keyboard during WW2 and was an Apple][ user, and later Mac user - til she died.

No, I have never compiled a Linux kernel, and I have used it since version 0.99.

I HAVE compiled many BSD kernels - but that was because I was developing disk drivers for Vaxen, or using Sparc kit.

Don't fall for Microsoft's propaganda.

...Ditch the dammed AI completely and just give us the picture without messing!

If that was true, we would be able to delete Microsoft itself, and not just an app!

Logan Graham, head of Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, said the chaos represented a road map for improvement rather than failure.

So if management believes failure is success, where is the problem with bankruptcy being a major win?

Actually, the expressions are:

Old World - essentially the world formerly part of the Roman Empire
New world - the Americas
Third world - other stuff.

Shit-hole - USA, Russia, and some parts of Africa, South America

... Surely all wildlife will be dead by the end of the year!

Using Microsoft default anything should be a felony.

Hopefully this will be enacted in Europe soon!

It is not just the artificial "intelligence" that is becoming enshitified. The impact on the real thing is every bit as serious.

Bearing in mind that most of the world thinks even left leaning democrats are right wing extremists. Maybe most chat-bots are also right wing in their view

I've tried ChatGPT - when it comes to hallucinations: I think LSD does it better!