I don't like shareholders calling the shots. They just went from eventually needing to make enough money to keep the doors open and the staff paid to needing to make as much money as possible whenever the investors say it's time.
They made their own bed here by making it so ridiculously hard.
I was going to a gym and I moved to get out of that $20 a month contract I had to write a letter and deliver it to them by hand.
When I canceled my DirecTV service I was on the phone for over an hour. Half of that was spent waiting for someone.
If you want me to have to talk to somebody before exiting a contract I'm okay with that but I need to talk to them right then and I need them to take no for an answer.
Also the whole raising the rates until people terminate and then offering them lower rates is absolute bullshit
Or if you like beating your head against a brick wall constantly NixOS is really hard to brick. Any update that fails can just be reverted with a reboot.
Of course the downside is poor documentation, and nothing at all works like you expect it to work. It's like hey, you want to learn Linux again from scratch? And by the way no two things work the same.
I maintain a cluster of hundreds of linux boxes professionally. I run NixOS, Debian, Ubuntu and Centos currently and I'm ultimately familiar with all but Nix, as I've only been running it for six months. I've been Linux on the desktop for most of time since about 2003, all of my installs are up to date.
Someone who's solidly averse to the terminal is going to be in for a surprise the first time a kernel update breaks Nvidia, or if they decide to dual boot and MS breaks grub. The existing GUI management situation is a bare minimum skeletons or undocumented clutter. He's looking for a control panel not kate wrapped into a list of files.
The worst part is any support he's looking for isn't going to mention crap about whatever bolt on GUI he's trying to use. All the support out there is run this command, run that command, cat | cut | xargs, check service status with this, check logs with that.
I've never known anyone even marginally advanced in Linux that doesn't have a strong grasp of the terminal and their way around bash. They all go back to Windows/Mac.
I'll stick with my suggestion that Linux is not for anyone with a strong aversion to terminals. I don't think that's out of date what-so-ever.
I DO NOT want to be forced to use a terminal just to get the most outta my operating
Just walk away. Plain and simple, there's no tinkering with Linux from the GUI.
If you want to run apps as they come from the distribution it'll work fine, usually stable as hell. But you're not going to be doing anything you're going to consider interesting from the GUI.
Home internet providers have high-speed lines that run through population centers and into every neighborhood. The backbones are fiber, so adding more capacity isn't all that expensive. If they run a 2.5-gigabit line to your neighborhood and it gets stressed, they can upgrade the local aggregate. Wired internet has enough bandwidth to service an incredible number of people.
Wireless internet needs towers and faces challenges like exposure, interference, and balancing power so everyone doesn’t try to reach the wrong tower. Each tower has to have it's own network backhaul to service everyone in that area. Each tower has limited bandwidth and time to slice up the connections. It's hard and expensive to expand cellular tech.
Data caps let IPS's handle capacity planning. Charging more for overages makes money and dissuades users from making them upgrade prematurely.
I've been fortunate enough to be around big infrastructure projects. Coal fired power plants, The sub basements around stadiums. Giant infrastructure projects are really awesome.
I kind of want to see the inside of the flood tunnels around the Hoover dam.
Sadly, no matter what the luxury once it's always available it becomes pedestrian. You enjoyed that shower 10 times more than somebody who has one in their bathroom would.
Every time I talked myself into it they ended up raising the rate. I've stopped trying to talk myself into it.