I want to say that i'm a long time windows user, i'm on windows for a long long time, but there's not a lot of things that keeps me on windows. Usually people dont want to switch to linux because they 1. play games or 2. they use some windows/mac only tools like photoshop. What i think is that the nightmare scenario for m$ is quite different. Less and less games come out on PC if you're a hardcore player you own a console. Gaming quality is not comparable. On consoles you put cd in, and play no worries about drivers/ram/cpu/gpu/installing etc. and the game is optimized to use full potential of your hardware. Only fpp shooters and rts's are more playable on pc than on consoles, but nintendo will change that. So if you want to play you'll be better off with console rather than pc/windows. As to point 2 applications. There is already quite good replacement for ms office and it can only get better. But what about other tools for web developers or artists. Well we can only hope that when adobe/macromedia will join their strengths they will begin to sell linux versions of their software. If that would happen ms nightmare would really come true. Web application revolution could also make it worse for m$ but i dont think it's such a big threat.
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I want to say that i'm a long time windows user, i'm on windows for a long long time, but there's not a lot of things that keeps me on windows. Usually people dont want to switch to linux because they 1. play games or 2. they use some windows/mac only tools like photoshop. What i think is that the nightmare scenario for m$ is quite different. Less and less games come out on PC if you're a hardcore player you own a console. Gaming quality is not comparable. On consoles you put cd in, and play no worries about drivers/ram/cpu/gpu/installing etc. and the game is optimized to use full potential of your hardware. Only fpp shooters and rts's are more playable on pc than on consoles, but nintendo will change that. So if you want to play you'll be better off with console rather than pc/windows. As to point 2 applications. There is already quite good replacement for ms office and it can only get better. But what about other tools for web developers or artists. Well we can only hope that when adobe/macromedia will join their strengths they will begin to sell linux versions of their software. If that would happen ms nightmare would really come true. Web application revolution could also make it worse for m$ but i dont think it's such a big threat.