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To: familyop

I’ve used Linux in the past, and I’ve also installed Linux on several computers for my family. The user experience stunk to high heaven, and I had to admit to myself and my family members that, Linux just wasn’t right for prime time. It’s still not right for prime time, even if it’s a good or the best solution for servers.

Consumer-side computing cannot allow for experimentation, and Linux is a decades-long experiment (on the consumer side).

Standards are defined as what is the more accepted and easier to use and which people have the least number of complaints about. Linux will never be Windows or even OSX or Android or iOS. The Linux people (developers) are still trying to emulate the Windows experience with their OS, and if standards to them means being more “Windows-like”, then, they’re looking at Windows as the standard.

No matter how anyone wants to spin it or put in, Windows is the standard. Closed or not. The standard is also defined by what most machines use, and Windows is what most PCs use. So, standards for computing have been defined for at least 3 decades, and Linux ain’t it.


27 posted on 09/07/2014 9:59:40 AM PDT by adorno (Y)
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To: adorno
It's sad to see what is happening in contemporary government-linked business, academia and politics. [Only an observation regarding general conditions and not directed at anyone in particular.]

But as rough as life is now in the true private sector, the true private sector remains a better perspective and position for the near future. Tomorrow belongs to the technically inclined.


29 posted on 09/07/2014 4:35:20 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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