Rich Shepard wrote:
However, if you want to use open source applications built to open standards, then understand that almost all of these were originally build for linux or one of the *BSDs, those are the platforms the developers use, and making them available to the Windows world is a courtesy, not a requirement.
LyX supports Windows, Linux/Unix and Mac OS X and it should work fine on all these platforms. There is no reason why one of these platform should get more support than others.
About this shortcut issue: LyX uses the standard Windows dialog for file selection. So this is a bug/feature of Windows itself. I guess it is designed this way because selecting a shortcut itself should also be possible.
Joost
