Before the past Christmas-New_Year holidays, many of my friends bought a new Windows 11 computers (laptops) at they believed bargain prices. Those are great machines, delightfully very light (less than 3 lbs) and mucho powerful. But to my surprise--perhaps not so much a surprise after all--no one liked it. Some don't even know how to start using it (among many things, I think you have to register your computer with Microsoft before you can use it? ? ?). But all of them are greatly annoyed by the constant bothering, reminding you that you don't have anti-virus, or whatever, and that you need to purchase Office 365 (though the first few months are free), etc. etc.It turned out that the usb-based immutable Trixie works really great. I never liked, nor trusted, a usb-based OS. But things appear to have changed a lot. I have used this usb-based immutable Trixie desktop for work for three days. No problem whatsoever. IThe first stage becomes much simpler if you create an immutable Debian on a usb. I am using a 128 GB Samsung usb as an example.
So I gave them a copy of our immutable Debian usb (much cheaper than giving them a new computer
). Within minutes, they can go on-line to check their stock portfolio, without apprehension (because they know this is a read-only OS). It is much nicer to view things on a computer screen than on a phone. For most users, security, or the feel of it, only comes secondarily. The most important thing is, this immutable Debian usb allows a computer purchaser an instant access to his or her new capital investment. New computer sales have been going down in the past several years and the pace is accelerating. Perhaps computer manufacturers should rethink their strategy as to whether it is wise to follow Microsoft to their eventual graves? ? ?Statistics: Posted by pwzhangzz — 2026-01-06 19:04