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Story: KDE getting ready to go native on Windows
Posted by: Bubba (Friday 3 March 2006, 8:37 AM)
>My wife is now a Linux user, and the only
>reason why is that Mozilla (which we use
>for browsing and e-mail) is cross-platform,
>but she still wouldn't switch until I installed
>Win4Lin so that she could still run Windows
>apps in a pinch. We never use Win4Lin, but
>psychologically she needed to know her
>apps were available.
Well that is great, you are only one person though, you are in the minority. The majority would not switch so easily. The fact is that by Windows Vista that software is going to grow more and more and you won't be able to replace that as easily.
With KDE going to windows it really makes going to linux a moot point.
With Vista being so much more secure and stable as well as IE 7.0 and with Vista Ultimate running Unix Applications and also MONAD (Windows Shell) that is superior to that of Linux shells and finally linux software like KDE, GIMP, Apache already on Windows, what is the point of running Linux?
Linux becomes less special while Windows becomes stronger, more secure, adds more features and the software and hardware industry support windows better (Creative's X-FI chip and ATI) then what is the point?
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Story: KDE getting ready to go native on Windows
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If you really want Posix for Windows.: http://www.... Jeff Lewis -
History repeating itself ...
To those advocat... Gregory L. Marx -
I look at it from the other point of vie... David Wright -
There are a few *HUGE* differences betwe... Richard June
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I can't argue with your 2nd and 3rd... Gregory L. Marx -
I don't remember OS/2 *EVER* d... Richard June
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Well, I know OS/2 didn't get m... Gregory L. Marx
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I definitely agree that the availability of c... Michiel Wittkampf
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When I was young, similar things happene... Chevalier Dr Dr Ruediger Marcus Flaig
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SFU -- Shut the F**K up? Cozminsky
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So I hope to be able to use http://www.reactos.com... Jamie Borg
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I thing that it's great for projects like REA... Anonymous
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The availability of cross platform applications ha... BD Phillips
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As a small office desktop user our 'training'... Anonymous
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Linux needs more, better drivers. Not Windows hel... michael howard
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Possible shortsighted comments by KDE developer?
I... Brett Kislin
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I have to disagree.
Our company is a Windows-only... Anonymous
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Isn't the point of the GPL to provide the freedom... Anonymous
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Having the only ports of great free software has n... Tobias Cohen
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I would disagree, as a very loyal Windows user, th... Jon D.
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Are members of the Open Source community really su... Gary Varga
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Making free software available on Windows alt... Larry Gearhart
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I was using Windows for a long time. I w... David
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These people who whine about "If all the good soft... Matt
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I like pizza Jo Jo
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To those who think allowing developers to do nativ... Anonymous
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>My wife is now a Linux user, and the only
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The point all depends on your perspectiv... Anonymous
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Raptorhead.com sells open source apps for Windows... Anonymous
