Linux still has a long way to go before it will beat Microsoft's ease of use. I have been using Linux for about a year now, and I still find myself spending a lot of time trying to figure out the operating system.
Furthermore, it's still quite a ways from being something that I would want to put on my mom's computer.
A lot has happened in the last year, but I would say it'll be 2 or 3 more years before it will make significant gains on "user's" desktops. Perhaps Corel's distribution will be more "idiot friendly." If so, that will be a reason for many techies to turn against the Corel distribution, and shoot themselves in the head.
Writing competent VB code is impossible.
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Unless you want to write short little programs that will never end up in the hands of "real" end-users, VB is sorely lacking.
We use Delphi for our consumer products. I can't imagine using VB. We tried, but eventually wound up with an unusable, unmodifiable program, with code duplicated all over the place. We abandoned the project.
Why is source code important?
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I have my own ideas of why, but I would like to hear some other good answers.
IMHO, there are several reasons, but I think the media always makes the mistake of saying that "The source code is freely available so that anyone can modify it." I've never modified the kernel or any other open source software, but having it open source does allow others to do so, but even this is normally only relevant if their changes end up in the next version of the software.
Additionally, I like the idea of "peer approval". If I write spaghetti code, I can't hide it from the general public.
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Linux still has a long way to go before it will beat Microsoft's ease of use. I have been using Linux for about a year now, and I still find myself spending a lot of time trying to figure out the operating system.
Furthermore, it's still quite a ways from being something that I would want to put on my mom's computer.
A lot has happened in the last year, but I would say it'll be 2 or 3 more years before it will make significant gains on "user's" desktops. Perhaps Corel's distribution will be more "idiot friendly." If so, that will be a reason for many techies to turn against the Corel distribution, and shoot themselves in the head.
Unless you want to write short little programs that will never end up in the hands of "real" end-users, VB is sorely lacking.
We use Delphi for our consumer products. I can't imagine using VB. We tried, but eventually wound up with an unusable, unmodifiable program, with code duplicated all over the place. We abandoned the project.
I have my own ideas of why, but I would like to hear some other good answers.
IMHO, there are several reasons, but I think the media always makes the mistake of saying that "The source code is freely available so that anyone can modify it." I've never modified the kernel or any other open source software, but having it open source does allow others to do so, but even this is normally only relevant if their changes end up in the next version of the software.
Additionally, I like the idea of "peer approval". If I write spaghetti code, I can't hide it from the general public.
Anyone else have thoughts?
Why would anyone want anything else? Windows does everything. It even does Windows.
Maybe now I'll finally upgrade from QFW 1.01.
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