Comments on: Want a Dell? Hate Vista? They’re Listening… To Some People http://www.michikono.com/2007/04/20/want-a-dell-hate-vista-theyre-listening-to-some-people/ Stuff only Michi cares to read Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: lee http://www.michikono.com/2007/04/20/want-a-dell-hate-vista-theyre-listening-to-some-people/#comment-4773 lee Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:50:50 +0000 http://www.michiknows.com/2007/04/20/want-a-dell-hate-vista-theyre-listening-to-some-people/#comment-4773 The obvious comment is that the pending demise of Vista is a chance for Linux geeks to get in by launching a unified distribution that lets you install applications without worrying whether they have been compiled for your system. In other respects Linux is OK and easier to get used to than Vista. On the other hand, diversity is one of the strengths of Linux, and so the best way forward could be to devise a free or cheap on-line service for compiling stuff for a user's particular distribution. The obvious comment is that the pending demise of Vista is a chance for Linux geeks to get in by launching a unified distribution that lets you install applications without worrying whether they have been compiled for your system. In other respects Linux is OK and easier to get used to than Vista.

On the other hand, diversity is one of the strengths of Linux, and so the best way forward could be to devise a free or cheap on-line service for compiling stuff for a user’s particular distribution.

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