>what we all want is better served by Windows and Linux applications. >What is missing is an understanding ...
... of how to design and write usable applications. from time to time i might need to do some non-programming work. on linux, there are a great many applications, but almost as many are both hardly usable and incomplete, and the ones that are "complete" are infuriating (eg, gimp). i just hate using them. on windows, i can find almost nothing useful delivered with the machine (even worse than plan 9, in many ways), so i either pay a lot of money [and then as with acrobat i am mostly disappointed] or revert to linux (see above).
