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What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013?

Posted by timothy on from the corporate-myopia-plays-a-part dept.

Five years ago today, reader J.J. Ramsey asked what's keeping you off Windows (itself a followup to this question about the opposite situation). With five years of development time gone by for Windows as well as all the alternative OSes, where does Windows stand for you today? (Is it the year of Linux on the Desktop yet?)

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  1. Re:because desktop linux is a toy and novelty by Nivag064 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hmm...

    For Spreadsheets, have you had a look at:
            http://www.libreoffice.org/features/calc
    and
            http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric

    For a Desktop Environment:
            http://mate-desktop.org/

    When I have to use a Microsoft O/S, I feel I'm flying blind with one hand tied behind my back with the undercarriage still deployed. Microsoft O/S's are slow, cumbersome, lacking in customisability, and inherently insecure - I first started using a box with a Microsoft O/S back in the early days of MS-DOS, and I've seen Microsoft Windows 8.

    Linux is the most widely used O/S on embedded devices and servers. It is also growing on the desktop.

    In our household we have:
    2 Linux desktops
    2 Linux laptops
    1 Linux phone (Android 4.2)
    1 Linux gaming console (wii)
    1 iPhone
    1 Apple Mac desktop
    (Note absence Microsoft O/S, and I suspect we will not get another Mac!)

    Metro, is a good reason to switch to Linux.