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[Grobe]

It's hardly my fault that Linux OS doesn't have a first party remote desktop solution built in.

I've never implied you in person is at fault on this.

TL;DR -- If you are offering GUI, desktop experience, and multi-user environment then you should better have a RDP solution if you want to be taken seriously. All other players have it, get on with the times already.

Well, Microsoft is a multi billion dollar company and can easily effort to create their own solutions. Of course they have a rdp solution, you just have to pay for a license to get access to this.

I don't understand this negative attitude against *nix. When you get into something that is free and open source as a power user, one should expect the user to at least test several possible solutions, and if none of the solutions for some reasons does not work according to expectancy - just fall back to the Microsoft solution. Chances are high that other *nix users have make this work without complaining on a random user forum how bad this and that particular OS is for them.

 

[JeffreyP55]

Microsoft can add whatever they want to Windows, as long as I have the option to deactivate it. Forcing me to eat the crap they're shoveling is only going to push me into the arms of Linux.

A good example is forcing a switch from Windows Mail to ad plagued Outl

Linux is not for me. I have tried different distros for the past 20 years. Early days I loved configuring Unix, PC's, Amiga and dos and keypunch machines from the 70's.
Linux is a pain in the ass where windows is smooth sailing.

 

[brandonjclark]

There's absolutely no good reason why someone who just wants to remote into their laptop to run some program installed on it should need to learn any config file syntax and know how to change machine wide service configs from the command line. To say otherwise reeks of elitism.

I agree with this.

 

[CmdrShepard]

Of course they have a rdp solution, you just have to pay for a license to get access to this.

RDP licenses are only necessary for Terminal Server instances which host mutliple users, not for individual Windows workstations which allow access to a single user free of charge (i.e. they are included in the price of Windows license which in most cases is included in the cost of hardware).

I don't understand this negative attitude against *nix. When you get into something that is free and open source as a power user...

You fail to understand because:

1. You are presuming that everyone entering is a power user.
2. As a power user you have different expectations of what is reasonable effort required to set something up

Chances are high that other *nix users have make this work without complaining on a random user forum how bad this and that particular OS is for them.

If they did, then why haven't they shared their success and knowledge with others in a true spirit of open-source? My take is most of them are a bunch of selfish gatekeeping elitist dweebs who just want to gloat how they can do it and ergo everyone else should be able to do it the hard way too.