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I think I can understand some complaints about Linux because I use it as my main desktop OS since many years, but I want to fix two points: - "compatibility he

I think I can understand some complaints about Linux because I use it as my main desktop OS since many years, but I want to fix two points: - "compatibility headaches" is a problem caused by the usage of Microsoft office. Linux has no compatibility problem with itself or with standards. - "apps and hardware that absolutely needed Microsoft's platform to run, and those were destined to stay". Since 2003, these products are 14 years old. It is hard to believe most of them could not have been renewed without this dependency. I think that acceptance of Microsoft office proprietary format is the main cause of failure.

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Linux has no compatibility problem with itself or with standards. Linux in general has huge compatibility problems with himself: right now I’m building binutils because RPM from RHEL6 encodes dependencies into the SRPM that are not backward compatible. Then there is NFS V4 as another example of incompatibility with reference implementations. Then there is ss versus netstat, yet another incompatibility, this time architectural. There are many, many such examples which desktop users and developers aren’t even aware of but system and kernel engineers and system administrators suffer on Linux daily.