I'm not disagreeing with you on the rest, but I do believe that shear numbers do constitute having the power of precedence. Think of it this way: The bigger a nations army is, the more power they have.Fred wrote:Shear numbers of users should not be a standard or measure of success.
It's not that the nation is a better nation, just they have the say. It's like that with Windows and such. Now, onto my main post...
Me? I've dabbled with Linux since Ubuntu 5.10. Am I a slave to the Debian & derivatives (DnD)? Yes, but I'm okay with that. Couple of years ago I went straight Ubuntu, and now all I use is Linux, and every once and a while I install Windows to get my Civ4 fix out of my system.
But looking at this post I was still surprised that not only one person said it but several in a couple of different ways, that Linux needs to be like Windows. As a matter of fact, I am finding that too many distro's are trying to be like Windows. (Lindows, then Linspire, PCLOS) and it irritates me, as I use Linux to do what I want, not be stuck with dumbed down applications because people are not willing to use the man pages, thus making me remove software that I don't need, and bogs down the system, (Bluetooth, Tomboy, Gnome-do, etc) especially when I either don't have the hardware for it, and the hardware I do have is limited. Not that this is anyone's fault. I can go to any distro then, but again, I'm a DnD slave. Gah! I'm ranting!
Quit saying Linux needs to be Windows, it doesn't, it's what it is, if you want something like Windows, use Windows. It's there, we don't need it to be, but if you want an open source version of Windows then check out ReactOS
Anyhow, that's my two cents.
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Got 20 fingers bro?nick wrote: During this time I can count the number of crashes on one hand, that's correct, propably less than 10 in 10 years...