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Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days
An anonymous reader writes "Clarence Ladson over at Flexbeta decided to kick Windows to the curb for 10 days in an experiment to find out just how hard it would be to 'quit cold turkey' and move entirely to Linux. It's amazing how many day-to-day operations require the inadvertent use of Windows in our daily lives."
But who cares? If you have even the slightest interest in living without Windows for ten days then you've already done it. If you can't figure out how to do it without accidentally using Windows somehow then you have no business reading Slashdot.
That pretty much sums it up.
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Truth is, Microsoft writes some of the best software around, that is very stable and works predictably on numerous different types of hardware and in numerous different conditions.
Even organizations that do produce superior software than Microsoft in some situations usually do so at the cost of ignoring many other situations that Microsoft does not ignore.
I really don't think that anyone else will come out with a better version of any of Microsoft's core products any time soon.
Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult;
whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse.
--Proverbs 9:7
An Operating System should be: functional designed in the best interests of the developers and users free(remember, an OS is only supposed to be the middle man between your applications and your hardware) secure
An OS should be free? Really? Where did you come up with that wacky idea? I personally think that cars should be free. It doesn't mean it's going to happen. It also doesn't mean that I'm not delusional.
I don't respond to AC's.
"The whole netscape versus internet explorer thign would have had a different light on it if IE was offered as a download or optional instalation package" So tell me how you're supposed to download the alternative if you don't have a browser in the first place? When was the last time any linux distro didn't include some sort of (even text based) browser? MS had to include something, so why not pimp their own product?
Microsoft acts like a business, talkes like a business, even tastes like a business, but most of us expect it to be something else.
Microsoft.....a business, noooo....Your lieing.
I will probably get Troll for this, but im sick of a fair portion of people on slashdot using words so strong as hate for a company, and always expecting a multinational corperation to act like something other then a business in a market economy.
I'll get troll for this, and it has been said before. But people....Microsoft is a business, a cold heartless business but a business none the less, save your hate for those you have hurt you dearly, for microsoft use the power of being a consumer...and dont spout monopoly because we all know linux has viable alterantives for most of their programs.
It's a harsh reality, i know, and i know someone here will have an allwise +5 insightful and witty comeback....but its just life.
Intellectual monopoly rights should not exist. They damage the economy and hinder the creation of wealth for society, and as such they should not be tolerated any more than vandalism as a method to generate turnover.