Let's face it. Windows does do some thing better.

[Sasha Tsykin]

Senectus . wrote:

>On 1/17/06, Sasha Tsykin <stsykin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Are you saying that linux is easier to set up and use than windows?
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>Without a doubt yes.
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>>so, than I would have to disagree with you entirely. What about
>>multimedia support? Just getting asf videos to work in linux can be a
>>chore, and once you have, they work badly. How about browser plugins?
>>Flash 8 has come out for windows, and not linux. As for software
>>standards being opened up, what would that do? The only thing in your
>>post which I agree with is that windows is the measuring post against
>>which other operating systems are judged.
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>Once again, this is not a strength of windows nor a weakness of Linux.
>It's because Microsoft has dominated the landscape so much that
>everyone has fallen over themselves to write extra software _to fit
>Windows_ using closed standards.
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I agree with you abotu this. I mentioned it not as a strength or 
weekness, merely as an observation.

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>>This is not to say that I think windows is better than linux. If that
>>were so, the I would use it. I prefer linux and so I use Ubuntu, because
>>it is my favourite linux, but I am not silly enough to say that either
>>a) it is perfect, or b) it has nothing to learn from windows.
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>We have a hell of a lot to learn from Windows, but realistically only
>from their mistakes everything Windows does right we do as well, now
>we need to encourage the rest of the world to join the party :-P
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In my experience, I have never seen a linux distribution in which 
everything "Just Works." If you have, then that's great.

However, now that everybody has stopped bashing everybody else, I would 
say that we can retire this thread, we've all had our say and frankly, 
it's starting to get boring witht eh repetition.

Sasha