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[PeaceBeWithYou]

No. You missed the qualifying part of the sentence...AND has the volume of apps that MS Windows has for it.

[mitchbert]

Much thanks. Gives me something to look into over the weekend.

Cheers!

[ThePythonicCow]

AND has the volume of apps that MS Windows has for it.

I don't think that there is such a big difference in volume of apps between the two. Two major windowing systems, and many more specialized ones for Linux; just one major windowing system for Windows. More server and engineering apps for Linux; more games for Windows. Many many office automation apps for both.

The volume of apps for Linux is amazing. But most people don't care, as they already have the apps they care about, and have no plans to switch. Nor would I expect them to, at least not in a big hurry.

I'll lay a wager, however, that there will be more Linux desktops than Windows desktops in another 10 years, on this planet.

I admit to running both - one for games, Quicken and Lotus WordPro, TheBat! (email) and InfoSelect (PIM), the other for most else. Except that I run Windows on top of Linux, using win4lin, because it is more stable that way. Only for games do I boot Windows native.

My dad's machine I setup with just Linux, because he wanted low cost, stable word processing and web browsing, with no particular bond to any existing app.

My son's machine is just windows - all games all the time.

[Las Vegas Dave]

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[B Knotts]

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[B Knotts]

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[Bill Rice]

"If IT's anything like South Park surmised, um, no thanks."

But that's STILL better than what the airlines do to you.