[rescue] VirtualBox anecdotes - was Re: A wee bit off-topic

[hike]

I agree, it's great for puTTY.
It's also great for the Sun tool to hit the v880's service processor module
and monitor its working.
It's also for that now-forgotten tool that permitted one to pop an X-window
session on a Solaris service.
It's nice to buy used Windows devices for a low price from low end user,
fix them up and sell them to a low end user looking for a cheaper-than-new
Windows device.

Other than those kind of uses, I don't need or want one.
(Disclaimer: I did buy a Windows 8 box to learn how to get around so that I
can help those friends who ask help of me.)

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net>
wrote:

> For myself, I find Windows very useful, for using PuTTY to connect to my
> Unix-boxen.
>
> The other stuff I use is basically cross-platform, so the OS doesn't
> matter.
>
> Cheers
>
> Patrick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lionel Peterson" <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
> To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 4:30:02 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> Subject: Re: [rescue] VirtualBox anecdotes - was Re: A wee bit off-topic
>
> Reminds me of the New stork Socialite that was amazed to hear Nixon was
> elected President, since no one she knew voted for him. [0]
>
> As you drive past high-rise office buildings, there are thousands upon
> thousands of windows users inside. As you look at a map of the world, the
> most
> populous countries (China, Russia, India, USA) are majority Windows users.
> Every electronics store you pass sells Windows PCs by the pallet each week,
> and occasionally some macs.
>
> That your selective sample excludes windows users is far from surprising.
> ;^)
>
> I seriously doubt MS 'bought' the survey results, if only because I rarely
> have heard them tout market share as a selling point. Could they buy survey
> results? Sure, but to what end?
>
> I am pretty confident there are more pirated copies of Windows XP than
> desktop
> users of Linux (any flavor)...
>
> Lionel
>
> [0]
>
> https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/02/27/the-actual-pauline-kael-quoteb
> not-as-bad-and-worse/
>
> > On Jun 21, 2015, at 2:51 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Yep...With enough money, one can buy a survey to "prove" anything one
> > wants to prove.
> >
> >  Personally, in my daily socio-business circles, I know precisely THREE
> > people who use Windows.  That makes for about 10%.  Granted I don't have
> > the patience to suffer stupid people readily, and I don't hang out with
> > gamers, but there's a data point.
> >
> >              -Dave
> >
> >> On 06/21/2015 03:39 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> >> By some accounts, about 90%+ of all desktops on the planet are windows
> >> boxes...
> >>
> >>
>
> https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qpc
> >> ustomb=0
> >>
> >> Lionel
> >>
> >>>>> On Jun 21, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Andrew Jones <andrew at jones.ec> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 06/21/2015 12:40 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> >>>> Hyper-V is available freely (as in beer) and is VERY capable in it's
> >> latest
> >>>> iteration. It can host Debian/Ubuntu VMs easily, as well as, of
> course,
> a
> >>>> wide-range of Windows OSs.
> >>>>
> >>>> Also, windows 8 and beyond includes Hyper-V in the desktop OS, but it
> has
> >> some
> >>>> unusual processor requirements beyond those of the server edition of
> >> Hyper-V
> >>>> (SLAT support).
> >>>>
> >>>>
> http://m.windowsitpro.com/hyper-v/requirements-running-hyper-v-windows-8
> >>>
> >>> But who keeps a Windows box at home?
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> > New Kensington, PA
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