Quality like Lightworks? http://www.lwks.com/ Yes, it is still on Alpha testing for Linux but....
For images, GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender etc have changed a lot from last time you tested them 10 years ago.
What some people need to know, problem is to convert existing professionals to other tools, not in the tools itself. Yes, some F/OSS apps can have limitations when compared to those what are used to make AAA movies and so on. But most professionals are not even getting that position to do those in the first place!
Capitalism was about companies to born and same companies to die when they can not anymore function or no one is buying their products/services.
Sorry but capitalism is brutal business and there is no time for emotions of family business dying because founded leaves it / dies. And Venture Capitalist shoud be the ones what take the risk that the company whats stock they buy can never return anything back... Sorry but capitalism and stock market should be brutal business where no one comes to save you, especially government should never come to save any private corporation or bank... Capitalism is brutal business... You born and you die eventually.
Google+ was mentioned to gather clicks and cause discussion why Google+ is so terrible.
Hell... the most of the WWW is terrible since corporations conquered it and we moved away from simple and good looking HTML sites to huge advertising competition and who designs most fancy animated page.
Some days I think we would have been much better in times when email didn't have HTML coding possibilities and discussion happened in BBS/NNTP way instead HTML forums with huge banners, "billion of links" and signatures what people abuse etc. (we can always make things cleaner and good looking but HTML was way too easy slippery sloap what was offered to so called "designers" who could make any element of picture as link).
If I would have mod points I would have modded your post.
When corporations/companies can buy others or make fusions... it only ends up to situation where big ones go and buy the smaller ones what does bring new ideas to market but never actually end up to deliver them to citizens becauses bigger one buy it off as they don't want that citizens would have alternative for their product.
It does work well on 10" tablet where you can see two/tree smartphone size/ratio screen. But really... how about after all doing a tablet version of software? How about improving the data swapping between running apps?
What if Android would get something so powerful for GUI apps as what pipe is for Unix shell?
That was what I have hoped from many times as I love using KDE because I can just dran and drop files from other KDE applications without going trough "open/save". Like I have a open dialog open in words and I notice I need to burn a few files to DVD+RW. I place disk to drive, click "K3b" option and I simply drag files from that open dialog to K3b. Or I can just Ctrl+Click to select files and right click and select "burn to disk" (okay, maybe not anymore the latter one as they limited the open dialog functions, but it use to be so).
I want to take content and modify it with other tool. Like I have file manager open or image viewer and I can just drag'n'drop image files either one to words or to instant messenger or even add them to existing ZIP file. When do we get a change to drag'n'drop content from app itself without saving it between, to other tool? Like dragging the application icon on window decoration to mark "I want the content as it is open in this window/app, to be copied to this window/application".
It is so funny that sometimes I am watching random Star Trek TNG episodes and they don't ever do any backups. They even can delete some of the files with voice commands and then still cancel the action after few seconds. That is something what makes Unix systems so awesome to use with files as you just "push" them where and how you like them.
I don't even know can you share content between Modern apps in Windows 8 what are splitting the screen? Like take a song from music player and drag it to other Modern app?
Android device makers, and the wireless carriers who offer Android smartphones to their customers, need ways to differentiate their products.
You do that mainly with hardware and with customer service.
Then you can place own custom wallpaper and custom icons, but stupid way to do is to bake them to Android framework so user can not remove them. The correct (and smart) way would be to do a own launcher and own icon theme for it and make it available only for your hardware. OEM could make custom look, custom functions but should always allow easily the user to swap to vanilla Android look and functionality.
Be a good OEM, support Android and give a customer change to actually like your product and use it as they want. OEM is hardware manufacturer what should focus for hardware first and then to user experience.
14 years for corporations would be good... As in that time your material is already done its purpose as cultural addition. 28 for individuals would be good as if you are artist/photographer/song writer etc you need to have little stronger copyright.
In 14 years a movie can either come a legendary or just "one of the xxs movie" A music can come a legendary what is played after decade it was released and still you get paid for it. But why should anyone being paid from something what their parents did and get money decades after parents have died? That has no sense at all...
7-10 years for patents... if you can not invent or get money from it in that time and improve it by getting a another patent for improved version, then it is your fault and community needs to have rights as there is always then someone who is willing to improve the technology in such ways what original inventor didn't ever even imagine.
ps. Of course open source needs very strong copyright protection so it can not be turn to closed source.
1) Few copies of legally obtained copyrighted material can be copied for private use
Means getting the material from other sources like a P2P networks, DC hubs and so on, are not from legal sources and they can not be copied, borrowed or given to a other people, not even for your family and friends.
Of course you can make a own P2P network among your friends or your family and share data with them, as those technologies are not illegal (and copyright law doesn't say they would be) but the actions using those tools illegally is.... illegal.:)
So as long your source is legally obtained and published, copying for private use is legal.
First, you are not talking about operating systems but graphical user interfaces.
But to the point.
My personal opinion is that I love OS X look and simplicity. And I love(d) GNOME 2.x simplicity and pastel look. But I can not stand neither of them in my computer as I want to do more than copy few files from USB-stick to desktop and use WWW-browser or listen music and watch videos. (For me, even moving some files with Finder is pain in the ass unless they are right front of me.)
I want to love Metro (or what other name MS will choose for it, hopefully as good as "Metro") as it is what Unix is about, information front of you. Metro is doing something what I dreamed and designed 15 years ago (I even have hundreds of designs stored in closet), but still it is doing it wrong way, by disturbing user, by hiding elements, functions and making simple things too complex (Like easy way to open directory in Finder by simply pressing enter on it when browsing with arrow keys).
So far, only GUI what pleases me on desktop/laptop use is KDE. And especially KDE4 started to do it great. The customization is the key. Please, just give user a pure and clear GUI and then easy way to _add_ features what they want (contrary to your saying, you want to _remove_ things, I think it should be that people can "opt-in" just by adding features what they need.) and then get the GUI look and work as they need and want, not as one designed in company sees it should work (they can do the very basic usability things, like you can not so easily by mistake delete file or rename directory etc).
But when it comes to tablet, smartphone and even netbook usage, I just love Android 4.0 on them. The style, it is very informative and widgets gives the possibility to have exactly the wanted specific information right under your finger with interactive function (what Live Tiles do not offer at all) and otherwise just the apps with the oldest and purest human understandable way. If you want to nail something, you take hammer and nail and you just hit it where wanted. If you want to cut something, you take saw and you just use it. The original Unix idea, one tool for one task. It is just so wise and awesome, why even command line interface is so awesome when compared to GUI in many basic cases (like copying files, renaming, moving, archiving, emailing, encrypting etc).
Last few years the trend has been that files need to be queried trough search and automatic filtering systems. Like the computer would know right away what you need and want (I am pointing my finger to you KDE community with activities!). Just give very simple and fast search for files, like Google search web pages (as it is said, it is silly that we can find pages from Internet faster than files from others computer). I love organized file hierarchic in manner where others can understand easily what is in directories and what file is about by its name.
But when it comes to actually quickly choose and group bunch of files and do something complex to them graphically, there seems not to be better tool than Automator in OS X (unless you count scripting for shell in all Unix systems).
So what Microsoft has done right? They made the GUI touchable with big enough buttons (tiles) what was reason why Windows 7 SUCKED for any tablet computer (I have used 27" touchscreen with Windows 7 and it just was terrible two weeks). And that they got the idea that information should be easy to get presented in wanted form.
BUT.....
Metro SUCKS!
Android is getting again something much better. Chameleon is coming launcher for Android (tablets only?) http://chameleon.teknision.com/ and it is exactly having what I have found most oldery (and young) people to need. To have information at one glance available for them, depending their task, location or time (one awesome app for Android is the Tasker https://play.goog
Android 4.1 and after that will have encrypted application packages signed to your devices. So no change to repackage them or transfer to another device with Titanium Backup etc.
Many does not understand that smartphones are not "phones" anymore. Thats why I would like to call them more as "PDA" what is the "smart" part of them anyways.
Smartphones are the PDA 2.0 and they shouldn't be used by people who mostly just talk and send SMS/MMS. Smartphones are designed to be used with VoIP, Email, IM and use applications for specific use. Like you have one app for every different task: RSS feed reader, own video clients (voddler), remote controls to webcams and security systems etc etc.
Web browsers are just for searching information (store closing times, contact numbers etc if not in local address book application (usually they are)).
I just hope that smartphone companies would add 5mm more thickness and use it for battery. It would allow them to 2-3x battery size and offer a smartphone what actually can be used 1-2 days almost full day. I have seen two of such phones, one from Motorola (3500mAh battery if I remember correctly) and then Samsung Galaxy S II with 4500mAh extra battery (gave 6mm more thickness) what just gave almost 4-5 normal day use but 2 day very heavy use (almost continuesly doing something 8 hour a day). Those I would call as "real PDA".
[quote]With a Linux it's a different story. An up-to-date Linux offering better hardware support, up-to-date versions of applications, also it's free (no cost) for the user to upgrade.[/quote]
So far Linux has had best hardware support (from legacy to modern ones) so it isn't reason to upgrade if already everything works (same for NT and XNU operating systems). Latest applications is good thing, at least change to do the update as new formats are needed for new features and new formats usually needs new version, so having latest application possible to be installed is huge bonus. Thats why I don't recommend any other than 6 month or rolling release distributions (so all long term supported are out) because you can not usually get latest applications packaged and distributed (at least officially) and when running 2-5 year old system, it comes harder to work with others.
(of course, if you don't need to share files between others and new features, there is no reason to upgrade).
Far better to not chance it and just avoid the GPLv3 for something that actually has a free license, rather than the significant impositions that GPLv3 attempts to impose in the name of the FSF's particular vision of "freedom".
So you are those who say that slavery is freedom....
First you say that customer should by a Mac only because OS X or software available for OS X but not for hardware. Then you say that customer should just buy a hacintosh and install OS X on it if they want "better hardware".
So actually you say no one should ever buy a Mac because OS X or Apple Hardware.
You don't give any price for Apple hardware than what specs say. You don't actually think that the casing and design would have a worth to be paid more.
Of course you can attach a spoon to fork but it does not mean you want to use it in daily purpose.
Some things can not be changed without changing distribution. Like package naming and decencies for them. Some packages are compiled with bloat settings or with style that user have harder time to hunt specific version (still needed some cases).
I used smartphone a lot for email reading (Gmail), map routing (Google Maps) and some information searching (stores timetables and contacts). But otherwise now with tablet, I have emails on it and I can actually type longer emails than "I will take care of that" and it is faster and nicer to go trough them. Map routing is awesome with 10" display on car, I don't like voice turn-by-turn as it is not perfect but just seeing 1-2 kilometer forward where is next turn is awesome. And browsing web is much nicer.
Now I have again just a basic phone what I can use to make calls and send those twe or three SMS when needed.
Next tablet is 7" (1280x800 resolution altough, for web pages) what I can carry in jacket pocket.
There are known cases where officials or inteligence services has tapped to cell phones what have been just turn off by button. That is one reason why in Russia in high level meetings you don't just turn phone off, but you need to remove the battery and leave them to another room.
If I remember correctly, there were even slashdot story about it few years ago.
Your cell phone pings at least three cell tower (if just at range) and selects strongest one of them. And even that your cell phone does not connect to cell, it does not mean cell have not received its signal. Cell phone simply rejects the connection either knowing it can not boost signal so it is too weak or it is just so weak that even max boost it can not hold the stable enough connection to cell.
At country land GPS is more accurate (few meters at starts but even few centimers at longer time when holding at same position, depending how accurate the clock is in device) but even with cell towers (if you just get at least three or two longer time) you can get location few tens of meters or even the estimation of the area where you can be.
GPS is great for the user. As user is the one who gets positioning as well, not just carrier. So user can give that location information to services trough data connection to get more nice features from the phone. But really, phone without GPS doesn't mean you can not be tracked.
That is one reason why no one at battlefield is allowed to carry a own cellphone because at electronic warfare, such device is bright like a smoke grenade at daylight. Every device emmiting signal can be detected and pinpointed its location.
Except that NT is not a kernel but whole operating system. But you are correct, so little MS supporters knows about techology like that operating system is just a small software operating hardware and all other software. It has best protection of all computer software. Bootloader does not have any meaning unless you bypass the operating system (like using Live system or boot trough other way).
It is easy to be ignorance and trust Microsoft marketing.
Did you know that Canonical have not invented anything new in Unity but just making everything even more limited (shortcuts and all of those) when compared over decade old shortcuts and functions of mainstream desktops?
Slashdot Mirror
Quality like Lightworks? http://www.lwks.com/
Yes, it is still on Alpha testing for Linux but....
For images, GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender etc have changed a lot from last time you tested them 10 years ago.
What some people need to know, problem is to convert existing professionals to other tools, not in the tools itself. Yes, some F/OSS apps can have limitations when compared to those what are used to make AAA movies and so on. But most professionals are not even getting that position to do those in the first place!
Capitalism was about companies to born and same companies to die when they can not anymore function or no one is buying their products/services.
Sorry but capitalism is brutal business and there is no time for emotions of family business dying because founded leaves it / dies.
And Venture Capitalist shoud be the ones what take the risk that the company whats stock they buy can never return anything back... Sorry but capitalism and stock market should be brutal business where no one comes to save you, especially government should never come to save any private corporation or bank... Capitalism is brutal business... You born and you die eventually.
Google+ was mentioned to gather clicks and cause discussion why Google+ is so terrible.
Hell... the most of the WWW is terrible since corporations conquered it and we moved away from simple and good looking HTML sites to huge advertising competition and who designs most fancy animated page.
Some days I think we would have been much better in times when email didn't have HTML coding possibilities and discussion happened in BBS/NNTP way instead HTML forums with huge banners, "billion of links" and signatures what people abuse etc. (we can always make things cleaner and good looking but HTML was way too easy slippery sloap what was offered to so called "designers" who could make any element of picture as link).
If I would have mod points I would have modded your post.
When corporations/companies can buy others or make fusions... it only ends up to situation where big ones go and buy the smaller ones what does bring new ideas to market but never actually end up to deliver them to citizens becauses bigger one buy it off as they don't want that citizens would have alternative for their product.
I think 2 inch by 2 inch or 2 inch by 4 inch is just fine.... If you like, you could get a nice sun and cloud on it as well?
It does work well on 10" tablet where you can see two/tree smartphone size/ratio screen.
But really... how about after all doing a tablet version of software?
How about improving the data swapping between running apps?
What if Android would get something so powerful for GUI apps as what pipe is for Unix shell?
That was what I have hoped from many times as I love using KDE because I can just dran and drop files from other KDE applications without going trough "open/save".
Like I have a open dialog open in words and I notice I need to burn a few files to DVD+RW. I place disk to drive, click "K3b" option and I simply drag files from that open dialog to K3b. Or I can just Ctrl+Click to select files and right click and select "burn to disk" (okay, maybe not anymore the latter one as they limited the open dialog functions, but it use to be so).
I want to take content and modify it with other tool. Like I have file manager open or image viewer and I can just drag'n'drop image files either one to words or to instant messenger or even add them to existing ZIP file.
When do we get a change to drag'n'drop content from app itself without saving it between, to other tool? Like dragging the application icon on window decoration to mark "I want the content as it is open in this window/app, to be copied to this window/application".
It is so funny that sometimes I am watching random Star Trek TNG episodes and they don't ever do any backups. They even can delete some of the files with voice commands and then still cancel the action after few seconds.
That is something what makes Unix systems so awesome to use with files as you just "push" them where and how you like them.
I don't even know can you share content between Modern apps in Windows 8 what are splitting the screen? Like take a song from music player and drag it to other Modern app?
Android device makers, and the wireless carriers who offer Android smartphones to their customers, need ways to differentiate their products.
You do that mainly with hardware and with customer service.
Then you can place own custom wallpaper and custom icons, but stupid way to do is to bake them to Android framework so user can not remove them.
The correct (and smart) way would be to do a own launcher and own icon theme for it and make it available only for your hardware.
OEM could make custom look, custom functions but should always allow easily the user to swap to vanilla Android look and functionality.
Be a good OEM, support Android and give a customer change to actually like your product and use it as they want. OEM is hardware manufacturer what should focus for hardware first and then to user experience.
14 years for corporations would be good... As in that time your material is already done its purpose as cultural addition.
28 for individuals would be good as if you are artist/photographer/song writer etc you need to have little stronger copyright.
In 14 years a movie can either come a legendary or just "one of the xxs movie"
A music can come a legendary what is played after decade it was released and still you get paid for it.
But why should anyone being paid from something what their parents did and get money decades after parents have died? That has no sense at all...
7-10 years for patents... if you can not invent or get money from it in that time and improve it by getting a another patent for improved version, then it is your fault and community needs to have rights as there is always then someone who is willing to improve the technology in such ways what original inventor didn't ever even imagine.
ps. Of course open source needs very strong copyright protection so it can not be turn to closed source.
To add some correction:
1) Few copies of legally obtained copyrighted material can be copied for private use
Means getting the material from other sources like a P2P networks, DC hubs and so on, are not from legal sources and they can not be copied, borrowed or given to a other people, not even for your family and friends.
Of course you can make a own P2P network among your friends or your family and share data with them, as those technologies are not illegal (and copyright law doesn't say they would be) but the actions using those tools illegally is.... illegal. :)
So as long your source is legally obtained and published, copying for private use is legal.
First, you are not talking about operating systems but graphical user interfaces.
But to the point.
My personal opinion is that I love OS X look and simplicity. And I love(d) GNOME 2.x simplicity and pastel look.
But I can not stand neither of them in my computer as I want to do more than copy few files from USB-stick to desktop and use WWW-browser or listen music and watch videos.
(For me, even moving some files with Finder is pain in the ass unless they are right front of me.)
I want to love Metro (or what other name MS will choose for it, hopefully as good as "Metro") as it is what Unix is about, information front of you. Metro is doing something what I dreamed and designed 15 years ago (I even have hundreds of designs stored in closet), but still it is doing it wrong way, by disturbing user, by hiding elements, functions and making simple things too complex (Like easy way to open directory in Finder by simply pressing enter on it when browsing with arrow keys).
So far, only GUI what pleases me on desktop/laptop use is KDE. And especially KDE4 started to do it great.
The customization is the key. Please, just give user a pure and clear GUI and then easy way to _add_ features what they want (contrary to your saying, you want to _remove_ things, I think it should be that people can "opt-in" just by adding features what they need.) and then get the GUI look and work as they need and want, not as one designed in company sees it should work (they can do the very basic usability things, like you can not so easily by mistake delete file or rename directory etc).
But when it comes to tablet, smartphone and even netbook usage, I just love Android 4.0 on them. The style, it is very informative and widgets gives the possibility to have exactly the wanted specific information right under your finger with interactive function (what Live Tiles do not offer at all) and otherwise just the apps with the oldest and purest human understandable way. If you want to nail something, you take hammer and nail and you just hit it where wanted. If you want to cut something, you take saw and you just use it.
The original Unix idea, one tool for one task. It is just so wise and awesome, why even command line interface is so awesome when compared to GUI in many basic cases (like copying files, renaming, moving, archiving, emailing, encrypting etc).
Last few years the trend has been that files need to be queried trough search and automatic filtering systems. Like the computer would know right away what you need and want (I am pointing my finger to you KDE community with activities!). Just give very simple and fast search for files, like Google search web pages (as it is said, it is silly that we can find pages from Internet faster than files from others computer).
I love organized file hierarchic in manner where others can understand easily what is in directories and what file is about by its name.
But when it comes to actually quickly choose and group bunch of files and do something complex to them graphically, there seems not to be better tool than Automator in OS X (unless you count scripting for shell in all Unix systems).
So what Microsoft has done right? They made the GUI touchable with big enough buttons (tiles) what was reason why Windows 7 SUCKED for any tablet computer (I have used 27" touchscreen with Windows 7 and it just was terrible two weeks). And that they got the idea that information should be easy to get presented in wanted form.
BUT.....
Metro SUCKS!
Android is getting again something much better. Chameleon is coming launcher for Android (tablets only?) http://chameleon.teknision.com/ and it is exactly having what I have found most oldery (and young) people to need. To have information at one glance available for them, depending their task, location or time (one awesome app for Android is the Tasker https://play.goog
Do you see more politeness in politics or in class rooms where people do know others names etc?
No.....
Android 4.1 and after that will have encrypted application packages signed to your devices. So no change to repackage them or transfer to another device with Titanium Backup etc.
Many does not understand that smartphones are not "phones" anymore. Thats why I would like to call them more as "PDA" what is the "smart" part of them anyways.
Smartphones are the PDA 2.0 and they shouldn't be used by people who mostly just talk and send SMS/MMS.
Smartphones are designed to be used with VoIP, Email, IM and use applications for specific use. Like you have one app for every different task: RSS feed reader, own video clients (voddler), remote controls to webcams and security systems etc etc.
Web browsers are just for searching information (store closing times, contact numbers etc if not in local address book application (usually they are)).
I just hope that smartphone companies would add 5mm more thickness and use it for battery. It would allow them to 2-3x battery size and offer a smartphone what actually can be used 1-2 days almost full day. I have seen two of such phones, one from Motorola (3500mAh battery if I remember correctly) and then Samsung Galaxy S II with 4500mAh extra battery (gave 6mm more thickness) what just gave almost 4-5 normal day use but 2 day very heavy use (almost continuesly doing something 8 hour a day). Those I would call as "real PDA".
[quote]With a Linux it's a different story. An up-to-date Linux offering better hardware support, up-to-date versions of applications, also it's free (no cost) for the user to upgrade.[/quote]
So far Linux has had best hardware support (from legacy to modern ones) so it isn't reason to upgrade if already everything works (same for NT and XNU operating systems). Latest applications is good thing, at least change to do the update as new formats are needed for new features and new formats usually needs new version, so having latest application possible to be installed is huge bonus. Thats why I don't recommend any other than 6 month or rolling release distributions (so all long term supported are out) because you can not usually get latest applications packaged and distributed (at least officially) and when running 2-5 year old system, it comes harder to work with others.
(of course, if you don't need to share files between others and new features, there is no reason to upgrade).
Far better to not chance it and just avoid the GPLv3 for something that actually has a free license, rather than the significant impositions that GPLv3 attempts to impose in the name of the FSF's particular vision of "freedom".
So you are those who say that slavery is freedom....
So the data was from the stupid people who in first place went and ticked that option without knowing what it does!
First you say that customer should by a Mac only because OS X or software available for OS X but not for hardware.
Then you say that customer should just buy a hacintosh and install OS X on it if they want "better hardware".
So actually you say no one should ever buy a Mac because OS X or Apple Hardware.
You don't give any price for Apple hardware than what specs say. You don't actually think that the casing and design would have a worth to be paid more.
Of course you can attach a spoon to fork but it does not mean you want to use it in daily purpose.
Some things can not be changed without changing distribution. Like package naming and decencies for them.
Some packages are compiled with bloat settings or with style that user have harder time to hunt specific version (still needed some cases).
When I toke a tablet, it replaced my smartphone.
I used smartphone a lot for email reading (Gmail), map routing (Google Maps) and some information searching (stores timetables and contacts).
But otherwise now with tablet, I have emails on it and I can actually type longer emails than "I will take care of that" and it is faster and nicer to go trough them. Map routing is awesome with 10" display on car, I don't like voice turn-by-turn as it is not perfect but just seeing 1-2 kilometer forward where is next turn is awesome. And browsing web is much nicer.
Now I have again just a basic phone what I can use to make calls and send those twe or three SMS when needed.
Next tablet is 7" (1280x800 resolution altough, for web pages) what I can carry in jacket pocket.
Go Play? Does DirectX finally work with Windows running on VM?
There are known cases where officials or inteligence services has tapped to cell phones what have been just turn off by button. That is one reason why in Russia in high level meetings you don't just turn phone off, but you need to remove the battery and leave them to another room.
If I remember correctly, there were even slashdot story about it few years ago.
Your cell phone pings at least three cell tower (if just at range) and selects strongest one of them.
And even that your cell phone does not connect to cell, it does not mean cell have not received its signal. Cell phone simply rejects the connection either knowing it can not boost signal so it is too weak or it is just so weak that even max boost it can not hold the stable enough connection to cell.
At country land GPS is more accurate (few meters at starts but even few centimers at longer time when holding at same position, depending how accurate the clock is in device) but even with cell towers (if you just get at least three or two longer time) you can get location few tens of meters or even the estimation of the area where you can be.
GPS is great for the user. As user is the one who gets positioning as well, not just carrier. So user can give that location information to services trough data connection to get more nice features from the phone.
But really, phone without GPS doesn't mean you can not be tracked.
That is one reason why no one at battlefield is allowed to carry a own cellphone because at electronic warfare, such device is bright like a smoke grenade at daylight. Every device emmiting signal can be detected and pinpointed its location.
I don't would you anymore wake under that radiation!
Except that NT is not a kernel but whole operating system.
But you are correct, so little MS supporters knows about techology like that operating system is just a small software operating hardware and all other software. It has best protection of all computer software.
Bootloader does not have any meaning unless you bypass the operating system (like using Live system or boot trough other way).
It is easy to be ignorance and trust Microsoft marketing.
And how OS X is idiotic?
Did you know that Canonical have not invented anything new in Unity but just making everything even more limited (shortcuts and all of those) when compared over decade old shortcuts and functions of mainstream desktops?