David J Taylor wrote:
Is that NT3.5 fact still valid ?
Never understood why anyone would use Windows for real work anyway.
The thing that it does best is waiting ever faster for the next
keypress from the user.
uwe
Perhaps people use Windows because the software they wish to run is only
available for Windows? I know that two reasons I develop for Windows
are that my customers want Windows software, and I don't need to create
half a dozen different versions for the variants of UNIX-style OSes
which are out there. But I also use FreeBSD and Apple's IOS where they
are more appropriate.
Look at how x-platform OSS software can be without much hassle.
Best organised example : Debian imho.
Getting no traction cross distribution but on the same CPU family
is nearly 100% attributable to not understood dependency and build processes.
Same with all the display and usability problems Adobe has on linux.
Big mouth and a long list of what linux lacks. But OSS software invariably
does not have the issues while not lacking in performance either.
Oh, and for many people, their interaction with Windows is not mainly
via the keyboard.
you mean they only do "click and drool" ;-)
Cheers,
David
G!
uwe
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