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Member since:2005-07-06
Linux is not and will never be intended for running Windows applications, or providing a complete lookalike replacement to Windows.
Who said anything about that? Linux needs to get the same, native applications that currently run on Windows; businesses need software, consumers need software; both of them have spent time and money in learning these tools and have many megabytes if not gigabytes of information stored in these said file formats - do you expect them to through away all this valuable information, simply to get the fuzzy feel good factor that comes to running Linux?
I moved to MacOS X from FreeBSD for the very reason why people keep with Windows or MacOS X; its the applications stupid! (comment not directed at you) I can run Microsoft Office 2004, Adobe, Macromedia, MYOB, plus software from Apple such as iTunes, iPhoto, Pages, Keynote etc.
If Linux or FreeBSD (or PC-BSD) came out tomorrow, and it had all the applications that I am running now, in native executables, I would migrate without any problems, but until that day, the only viable platform for me is MacOS X.
Member since:2006-01-10
You say that if all your Mac OS X apps where available for PC-BSD, you'd switch ... well if you use all your same applications, then why do you switch actually? Well one reason for _me_ why I switched to Linux was the different "software culture" that Linux offers - which is, open source, free, standards conform etc. Of course I can't speak for the whole Linux community, but sorry I don't know if I really want to see e.g. Adobe Photoshop on Linux. Nothing against Photoshop, it no doubt the probably best tool for this purpose out there, but every time I install any closed source or commerical application on Linux, it just "doesn not fit in". You can't update this software with Apt, it often has a complete different HIG, it looks different than the rest of the desktop etc. Well today if I'd d o serious graphics stuff I'd get a Mac and buy Photoshop, but instead of having Photoshop for Linux, I'd prefer an open source solution with similar functionality & similar usability (no, I'm not mentioning Gimp here, this is definitely not an option ;-) )
Tom
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2006-01-10
"if they can't run the same applications that they've always run in the past, to them, the operating system is a failure."
Alternative operating systems are not designed to run the same applications that you've been running before, they're intented to do the same tasks on an alternative system with alternative applications. If you want to stick with Windows applications, then use Windows, if you want to switch to Linux or Mac OS, then choose Linux or Mac OS applications. Of course some applications are available for multiple OS which is a good thing. Linux is not and will never be intended for running Windows applications, or providing a complete lookalike replacement to Windows.