Linux users when we see Windows on something in public (typically stuck on a BSOD):
Most Windows machines I see in public run Windows 7, the last good Windows in my opinion.
Literally just had a kiosk removed from my workplace last week because it was running Windows and kept looping into a BSOD and rebooting. It was kinda entertaining watching it struggle to pull up the kiosk app and then BSOD again.
I’ve always been surprised to find all the ATMs in my country run different versions of windows (XP, Vista, 7)
Like even from purely an accountant point of view, if you’re using some shitty proprietary software why wouldn’t you implement it in an OS that doesn’t require commercial licences???
Then again the entire software stack of any established financial institution is just spaghetti code and things held on with duct tape and prayers
Embedded systems are frequently Windows based. It’s always a little surprising. Also, it’s downright terrifying how many of those embedded systems rely on a version of Internet Explorer that’s been deprecated for 20 years.
Banking systems running COBOL on IBM mainframes. So archaic that even hackers can’t understand the code, and if they did the bank would pay them voluntarily tp sort it out, and the hackers would say no, because COBOL, eww.
I actually have a friend who is the old meme – his mother is a sysadmin for a small regional bank and he’s been training under her for years to take over when she retires. No one in the open market can even begin to understand what she does.
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I thought the white-on-blue symbol was the Arch logo based on the low-res thumbnail
It’s a Jubilant thing. They’re the company that co-owns franchise restaurants of Dunkin, Domino’s and Popeyes in India, and they run stock Ubuntu on their devices and remote into a Windows based server for orders and billing using VNC.
Non-kiosk app crashed.
sudo make me a sandwich
Sorry, we don’t make sandwiches after lunch. Try
sudo make me a hamburger.Access denied, there are no hamburgers in India
You won’t know which devices are running Linux because they’re all working and displaying what they should.
I think you mean Linux users whenever they see something that runs embedded Windows in public (because obviously it crashed)
An internet kiosk, for example, revealed itself with the cursor shape and scrollbar style. (I also saw it crash, confirming it was Linux Mint.) However, Windows does its own things:
I saw a display running Ubuntu on a Railway station and I get fucking amazed.
Runs SUSE. Used in state healthcare in Russia.
Even freaking Russia has a nationalized healthcare system, the fuck!? Medicaid and Medicare runs windows 95 on dialup.
It got healthcare system from USSR. Now it’s chronically underfunded for last 25 years. There are improvements in regional centers(like digital records and appointments system), but in regions(and even some regional centers) there are less and less doctors, and buildings themselves have self-disassembling ceiling from neglect, disrepair and systemic corruption that builds yachts and palaces in Gelendzhik for Putin.
But in Moscow and SPb it’s good. Also dialup? I don’t think there any of it left here.
They used dial up for certain claims up to about 10 years ago, they claimed it was for security.
There’s a Hebrew expression that goes like “Because of hatred of Haman , not out of love of Mordecai”
Adjusting for context , it is because of mistrust of Microsoft, not out of love of Linux.
whatever gets em there
