Another sad plea from Linux for more converts.
When you have to scrap the bottom of the XP barrel for users, then you might as well toss in the towel.
Why not try to mine Mac community? It would be great to see two teams of real zealots rip each other to shreds.
I’ve been using Linux for many years now. More users would only mean creating the incentive for viruses and scams that Windows users have to deal with everyday. I’m happy with the market share as it is.
After reading that post, I am not sure who the zealot is there...
Another sad opinion from the clueless, doom-and-gloom moaners. Why does it bother you that despite your uninformed opinion a Unix-style OS is gaining in popularity more and more over the years? Wouldn't your teeth-gnashing serve more purpose bemoaning the popularity of a ChiCom-supporting company's actions and popularity such as Google?
You believe that because a particular OS (Windows) has been very popular for a long time, that it's the only way to go. Uniformity is the common good, everyone should fall in line with the approved standard OS.
Gee, that sounds kinda Socialist.
You believe that alternatives are not worthy, simply because they're not the decreed official view.
Gee, that sounds pretty Socialist.
You believe that all who do not believe as you do are wrong-headed fools and zealots who deserve only scorn, and maybe they should be put away as crazies.
Gee, that sounds very Socialist.
You don't give credence to the idea that a variety of options is a good thing, or that individual choice is a good thing, or that upstarts may be able to contribute something of value to a free marketplace.
That sounds really Socialist.
Are you sure you're posting on the right site? We LIKE freedom of choice, alternatives, individual initiative, the idea that just because Big Government -- or Big Software -- is big, that it's necessarily right.
I seem to recall that at the time of the American Revolution, the majority of American colonists were in favor of continuing to live under British rule. Were they right to oppose American Independence from Britain? The way you knock everything except The Microsoft Party Line, I think maybe you do...
Or maybe you're really Steve Ballmer, and can't conceive of anything except Microsoft. Sometimes I wonder.
Well, I hope you're happy in your La La Land where everything with a Windows logo is perfect, and nothing else exists.
Do you realize how many millions of XP desktops are left “out there”? It is not the U.S. alone we are talking about here. Since XP, the linux kernel has come a LONG way and the desktop builds around the kernel have become very powerful and fully featured, so much so that companies like Microsoft are working on protocols and ways to break open source rather than embrace it.