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The only reason I stick with Windows is because of the vast ecosystem of applications. Because I went from MSDOS to UNIX to Linux, never ever having used Windo
by simonblack 5y ago
The only reason I stick with Windows is because of the vast ecosystem of applications.
Because I went from MSDOS to UNIX to Linux, never ever having used Windows as my day-to-day OS, I don't have that applications lock-in. What I've never had I never miss.
I used to, back in the 90s, try to work out ways of using MS-Office under UNIX because of the ubiquitous .doc format that many documents I received were written in. Sun Microsystems had a system called WABI (Windows Applications Binary Interface) at one point back then. But I haven't bothered about Microsoft Office for decades.
- linkdd 5y agoI went from 98 to XP to Linux. I stayed on Linux for more than 10 years, then I switched back to Windows 10. I was tired of having to configure my system, or fix the problems after each breaking update. Too much choice, kills the choice. Cross-compiling to Windows was a real pain, now on Windows with the WSL, it's just so easy. Also HyperV (for virtual machines) is just way more performant than KVM or VirtualBox. The only thing I would complain about Windows would be the occasional lag when doing Disk IO. Don't get me wrong, I still love Linux, and I am still grateful for the Open-Source community. But saying that the ecosystem of applications is good enough on Linux is a lie: - Gimp is nowhere near Photoshop for Graphic Designers - Cubase doesn't run on Linux, which is a widely used software for audio editing - The Adobe suite (After Effects, ...) for video editing is absent too on Linux - ... Yes there are free/open-source alternative, but they are never the standard in the work field. EDIT NB: Cubase works best on Mac