Writing using my Linux Computer
I usually use a small screen ~(5” x 9.5”) 10” with my Linux system. Unfortunately that provides a bit of a hardship as the screen area makes everything quite small. A bit hard for my 79+ year old eyes.
Not that I can’t see the screen or read the text. It’s just the fact that a larger ~(10” x 19”) 22” screen is just a much more comfortable working environment.
To me it feels more like a “real” get to work full size system, then a standby tiny Linux play toy.
So what I have done is connect two monitors (both sizes above) and use the big screen when I need (or want) to do some serious PC work with Linux. “Serious” – Like with MS and Apple, Ha!
Linux is really a very nice operating environment. I have been using it for many decades on all types of hardware. Using a big screen, Linux doesn’t feel like I am using some oddball experimental operating system. There are many versions of Linux and a lot of tinkering with screen visuals (desktop appearance) but the Linux core is a very mature and robust operating system.
Windows 11 and Apple OS have become overrun with AI (Artificial Intelligence) that is all but impossible to stop from creating annoying interruptions trying to “out-think” the user. They are also tracking every move and document created by their users. Trying to “help” everywhere.
Linux OS has no corporate empire to create and support. It has no need to “phone home” to pirate its user data out into the cloud. It has no social agenda to control human activities.
The real issue is the Internet itself. It’s such a powerful tool, no mere human can know every detail of its operation. But it ties so deeply into human activity and extends human abilities so greatly, it’s “Magic Power” has become exploited (as humans do) into every niche of human activity.
So a personal computer “operating system” has become the focal point for access to this magic kingdom. Control the operating system and included (built-in) applications and you control the user. There is big money to be made if you are, and remain, the dominate operating system.
The big focus in Personal Computing is data security and absolutely knowing who the person is at the keyboard. That’s generally a very good thing in a business sense. But if it is not business it’s still good because many humans in a social sense, will cheat and lie if they think they can’t be traced.
But it is the extent of that tracking beyond ID that is most worrying. If an internet system can build a personal profile on the person at the keyboard of their user habits and WEB connections made, it will have valuable information to sell to consumer marketing or provide for legal recourse.
The computer operating system is the place to do that. An “OS” is a common system requirement on all Personal Computers. I am sure national governments are aware.
I have done no official research, but MS and Apple have big shares of the Personal Computer Internet. Meaning they support large coordinated design and programming staff. Linux is much more fragmented operating system with it’s many distributions and no centralized registration system. Linux also encourages users to hack and change the OS as they see fit, with open source code. I feel comfortable with my assumption my Linux computer is doing very little if any reporting on my activities.
The other two? Who knows…
I will “play” with them all. No desire yet, to exclude Win11or the MAC mini. Linux on the bigger screen is very nice for writing this post.
I could use it as my primary system except for the fact I like to use Messages when on the Mac.
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