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Old 10-05-2021, 06:17 AM   #239 (permalink)
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But as soon as you need it for a certain job, and that job requires a certain app, it now has nothing to do with the level of luxury, the reviews or the design, but can it do what you need it to do or not.
I'm trying to think what task is married to the OS, rather than the development language; except gaming. Most widely used programs have versions for the major OSes.

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I've known several people that bought a device to do a certain task, to run a certain app, only to find out it's not available on that device.
Those several people chose poorly. The better course is to buy the device and see where it takes you, a bicycle for the mind, as it were.

Xist -- They're all the same. Linux, Mac and Windows all have a terminal program (Windows calls it a console).

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https://docs.microsoft.com › en-us › windows › terminal
Windows Terminal is a modern terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize ...
You can run Linux programs under Windows, Zorin 16 Linux runs Windows applications [under WINE?]. Mac OSX Terminal is a window into OpenBSD. If you can work in a terminal they all the same.
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