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A lot of alarms ringing in my mind, as a long time Linux and i3 user and developer. 1. You ran i3 as a proof of concept now but going long term you ll face doz

A lot of alarms ringing in my mind, as a long time Linux and i3 user and developer. 1. You ran i3 as a proof of concept now but going long term you ll face dozens of issues when you want to make it useful. The same is true for everything you ll install through Ubuntu for Windows.. 2. Windows mail clients are totally wrong, slow and they are not only hazardous to people using but also to receivers of emails. Outlook users don't know how to put subjects, respond and distort the format and conversation all the time. (Long time outlook user here) 3. Desktop productivity tools are long history. No reason why someone would use ms office anymore. 4. Windows for Ubuntu is doomed to be a second class citizen, and if it by chance becomes a first class citizen then why would someone need the Windows overhead and complexity? (How can I apt-get remove windows) I congratulate MS devs taking HN seriously recently but windows in 2016 is obsolete..

raesene9 10y ago
oh dear. I'd have to suggest here that you're projecting your own use cases and assuming that they have a universality that they really don't. Desktop productivity tools are history... no, no they're not, MS office sells millions of copies for a reason. Windows mail clients are wrong. They're not the same as unix mail clients for sure, but who gets to dictate whether that's right or wrong? Personally I think all mail clients that allow HTML are wrong, but I understand that I'm in a minority there. I'd suggest that Windows has many advantages over linux on the desktop. The hardware support is better, there's a better range of desktop apps available for people who like desktop apps (including games of course). Personally I'm looking forward to ubuntu on windows. there's a load of areas where I prefer working in a linux/unix like environment (e.g. anything command-line based where linux is far superior to Windows (although Windows is getting better in that regard)), and I hope that this will let me get the best of both worlds, whilst avoiding the overhead of running a VM.
erelde 10y ago
> Desktop productivity tools are long history You should take a walk in an administration building. IE6 and MS Office are still in use. "For security reasons".
StavrosK 10y ago
> Windows mail clients are totally wrong All mail clients are totally wrong. I hate how everything is a web app right now, and I'd love a desktop mail client that worked well. I run Thunderbird now, but it's a beast, and mutt/pine/etc are rather unwieldy, even for a heavy cli user like me.

raesene9 10y ago

oh dear. I'd have to suggest here that you're projecting your own use cases and assuming that they have a universality that they really don't. Desktop productivity tools are history... no, no they're not, MS office sells millions of copies for a reason. Windows mail clients are wrong. They're not the same as unix mail clients for sure, but who gets to dictate whether that's right or wrong? Personally I think all mail clients that allow HTML are wrong, but I understand that I'm in a minority there. I'd suggest that Windows has many advantages over linux on the desktop. The hardware support is better, there's a better range of desktop apps available for people who like desktop apps (including games of course). Personally I'm looking forward to ubuntu on windows. there's a load of areas where I prefer working in a linux/unix like environment (e.g. anything command-line based where linux is far superior to Windows (although Windows is getting better in that regard)), and I hope that this will let me get the best of both worlds, whilst avoiding the overhead of running a VM.

erelde 10y ago

> Desktop productivity tools are long history You should take a walk in an administration building. IE6 and MS Office are still in use. "For security reasons".

StavrosK 10y ago

> Windows mail clients are totally wrong All mail clients are totally wrong. I hate how everything is a web app right now, and I'd love a desktop mail client that worked well. I run Thunderbird now, but it's a beast, and mutt/pine/etc are rather unwieldy, even for a heavy cli user like me.