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What Keeps You Off of Windows?
J. J. Ramsey asks: "schnell has already asked the question What's Keeping You On Windows? It seems only fair to ask the opposite question. For those of you who have elected to not use Windows, what keeps you away from it? Concerns about stability? Security? Dislike of Microsoft's business practices? Or are you simply a fan of your chosen platform and just don't care about Windows one way or the other?" Might recent events sway your decision to keep Microsoft's premier software offering off of your computer?
This is bogus. There is not a single feature supported in Windows that is easier to configure in Linux. Linux has a severe issue with documentation, usability and general "stupid-user friendliness" that will always keep it bound to the elitist geek population rather than the mainstream world. There are a gazillion distributions of the OS itself that configure things in wildly different ways with virtually NO usability standards other than what it inherited from the Unix world.
Linux has its place, and yes I do love it; its an excellent work horse, but I don't have the time to spend hours working on getting some obscure software/hardware to install and run properly. Go ahead and flame me, but this is just my personal experience from a Linux user since '96.
Because what your describing isn't the case for modern Linux distros. You can also drop fonts into your font directory and have them appear in Linux as well.
Honestly I just have to consider this post a Troll or the possibility that your are lying and have no interest in running Unix as an OS. Because if you had done ANY research there would be no way you could claim that "fonts" are the reason why you are being held back. What a lame excuse. Seriously. Say Linux doesn't support your Games, say its still a bit weak on the multimedia department, but don't give us an excuse from 1998 as the reason why you are "prevented" form using Linux.
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