RE: Operating Systems: Choice and design
June 4, 2009 at 3:26 pm
(This post was last modified: June 4, 2009 at 3:31 pm by Rob.)
(June 4, 2009 at 2:53 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: the MAIN reason MS is top dog is the same reason that science is the only true philosophy.
What? o.o
The MAIN reason they're the top dog now is they managed to create a better system than CP/M in the 80s. 20 odd years of proprietary lock in later and here we are.
(June 4, 2009 at 2:53 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: Linux is improving in this respect and will (I have few doubts) one day achieve it. It will "be" Windows then and not what the Linux evangelists love ... LOL.
And thats fine, the magical thing about linux is if you dont like the direction a distro is going you can always switch. I highly doubt the likes of Slacks, Arch and Gentoo will ever be geared to the average person.
(June 4, 2009 at 2:53 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: Whether you approve or not, whether you are envious or not Windows is top dog for one primary reason ... it works and it does it bloody well.
If that's what you call working then I want to work for you
Jest aside, it really doesn't matter what's on top with market share. At the end of the day it effects nothing.
Hoi Zaeme.
