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Grawsith:
Well, I'm too lazy to learn Linux, and I have 20 gb of Windows games, so i'm kinda locked in.
Mnementh:
I'm using Ubuntu on this laptop (compaq presario) and ready to stab it. For a while I was running Ubuntu as part of a daul boot system on my PowerBook and it ran like a dream. Now I'm back to just OS X on that machine.
It just goes to show how much better a computing experience is when the hardware all runs together decently.
Grawsith:
You know why OS-X and Windows is better. IT COSTS MONEY. You've got paid people using proprietary code to make OS's that cost money. Obviously, money will prevail.
elcapitan:
Grawsith, please don't take this the wrong way, but a man whose best defence for Windows is that it runs VB is in absolutely no position to make blanket statements about the state of the open source movement.
There are plenty of examples of extremely high quality open-source code outperforming production-line stuff out of Microsoft or IBM. The textbook example for the kind of stuff you'd know would be Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. Other things, such as specialised scientific programs and software libraries, tend to be much better and more reliable when they've been created by individuals who aren't working for corporations, and hence are subject to peer review (such as Boost and FFTW - oh wait, I forgot, you code in VB). There are, of course, examples to the contrary on both sides, but it certainly isn't as black and white as "people who get paid produce better stuff."
Essentially what I'm saying is: shut the fuck up until you know what you're talking about.
Grawsith:
I'm not bagging the entire open source movement. Just the fact that paid OS's will inherently function better than free ones. Like Red Hat and Madriva (paid OS's) being better than Fedora and Ubuntu (free).
And I only code in VB cos it's easier than C# / C++ , and it's not like i'm a pro or anything.
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