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

[Billy Verreynne (JW)]

"Senectus ." <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd have to disagree with you.
> _Windows_ does nothing better than Linux.

New to the list, but you must be local Linux zealot I take?

Windows does things _differently_. And that is why it does certain
things better than what Linux does. And vice versa. E.g. do you call
the hack what X has become better than the MS GDI?

> It's the fact that there is _so_ much written for Windows, and the
fact that the
> standard is a Windows standard that keeps people from swapping over.

End-users do not care about IEEE and other standards.. Or  about Open
Source. Or whether one o/s has a "better" memory model/threading
model/file system/whatever than the other o/s. They want something
that works for them. And Windows is getting better and better at
working for dumb users.

> I'd put good money on the fact that if the standards used in
computing were opened
> up, we'd see a _massive_ shift in the market.

Such as what? Linux becoming the preferred desktop o/s for home users?
That is pure fantasy.

--
Billy

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