[Discuss] Essentially all free apps will soon be available on Windows

[Deryk Barker]

Thus spake Adam Parkin (pzelnip at gmail.com):

> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> > No. If somebody was using all free apps on windows, then the final step to
> > move from windows underneath to the GNU/Linux OS underneath would be
> > extremely easy for them. (I am drawing a distinction here and throughout
> > this post between the OS which allows just the command-line to work and 
> > apps
> > that run on top of that OS.)
> 
> I just want to point out that while I am a very large open source 
> supporter, and believe quite strongly in the principles of open source 
> development, and that 90%+ of the applications I use on a day to day 
> basis are open source, I still don't use Linux, nor do I have any 
> intention to do so until Linux is as convenient to use as Windows is.

Not wishing to start a flame war or anything but some of us already
believe linux is *more* convenient to use.

My wife certainly does - she abandoned windoze for linux about 5 years
ago because she became frustrated with windows.

And I gave up windows almost a decade ago - apart from having to face
it every day at work.

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