Why I left Linux for Windows. 2152
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:43:32 -0700, George Peatty Apart from Posix standards, there needs to...
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:38:51 -0700, donalkfellows
No doubt about it, Windows is indeed pervasive on the desktop. However, that alone is not a reason to forego using Linux in order to support it.
One of the reasons that I first fell in love with Linux and OSS and still continue to love it is that it is so open and versatile. It will happily work with a variety of platforms, protocols, software, hardware, and networks. Commercial proprietary platforms like Windows will fight you every step of the way in trying to get them to play nice in a heterogenous environment such as the one in my shop. Linux and OSS just does as its told, no fuss.
Your argument basically boils down to, well everyone else is using it. That's not a reason, it's an excuse. When you can accomplish pretty much everything you need to using Free and Open Software, why limit yourself? I have yet to find any compelling reason to move from Linux and OSS, and I doubt I ever will. Though I have found many reasons to continue to use it.
-- rapskat - 12:08:12 up 54 min, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.27, 0.32 "Today we stare at vacant sky, where great things once loomed. But freedom still resounds, and the Government of Washington and Jefferson still stands..." -- Remarks at memorial services for JFK
Why I left Linux for Windows. 2153
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