* Dave Howorth <dave@howorth.org.uk> [02-22-20 11:14]:
On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 11:35:34 +0100 "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 22/02/2020 08.24, Per Jessen wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
To be fair, the current usual? environment of a single desktop different considerably from a typical? server. If there's a desktop, then what the (a?) user typically wants is for the desktop to come up and then perhaps ask questions about what do you want to do about this missing filesystem or whatever other resource is missing. On a server, I might want it to stop and bleat "something's wrong", yes.
Yes, that is a good point - I do tend to think mostly in terms of servers.
Many linux machines are also used as servers. Linux is really a server operating system, multiuser and multitasking. If I use postfix, that's clearly server software. A plain user simply doesn't make use of all the features.
Whilst it's true that linux is designed to be used in servers, it's also true that linux is designed to be used as a desktop OS.
But the whole discussion misses the point, which is that the desired behaviour of a machine that has a display and a user when encountering a fault is likely to be different to the desired behaviour of a server with no user in front of it.
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