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How many computers come with Linux as an option? (And how many still would if installing it wasn't significantly cheaper for manufacturers?) As alternatives go
by silentbicycle 16y ago
How many computers come with Linux as an option? (And how many still would if installing it wasn't significantly cheaper for manufacturers?)
As alternatives go, it's pretty established.
Also, while I know where you're coming from, Esperanto isn't a great example - Dvorak is just as expressive as Qwerty, it just doesn't bend your fingers up as much.
- jonknee 16y ago> How many computers come with Linux as an option? (And how many still would if installing it wasn't significantly cheaper for manufacturers?) A lot more than come with Dvorak. It also isn't typically cheaper with the way Microsoft charges OEMs. If you're exclusively MS you pay less per copy. There's no QWERTY pusher out there putting the squeeze on Dvorak.
- silentbicycle 16y agoLast time I checked, computers running Windows, OS X, Linux, or BSD all come with Dvorak.
- Manabu 16y agoI agree that Esperanto isn't an great example, as it gives more than 40 millions of results on google (7 millions of them if you search only for pages writen in esperanto), much more than Dvorak. And you imply that esperanto is less expressive than some other language? What language would be that? And from where you got this impression/finding? Or you just afirm it like it was truth having never researched on the subject? I'm sure that languages based on the roman alphabet are much less expressive than the chinese or japanese, because it is so simple, small and somewhat artificial, isn't? IS NOT!