Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 23:59 UTC
Windows 7 has been out and about for little over a week now, and as it turns out, Microsoft's new baby is doing relatively well. That is, according to the figures by NetApplications: Windows 7 already reached the 3% mark this weekend, and is already closing in on the 4% mark.
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RE[2]: Customers don't want Linux
by nt_jerkface on Wed 4th Nov 2009 01:01
in reply to "RE: Customers don't want Linux"
Member since:2009-08-26
I like how you make it sound like there are no hardware compayibility issues with Windows. You must not have used Windows for very long.
Windows is the default market for manufacturers. Building a hardware device that doesn't work for Windows would be an extremely poor business decision. Building a device that doesn't work with Linux however will hardly affect profits. Like it or not Windows has a strong compatibility advantage, especially for consumer peripherals.
People can go to the store, look at a hardware device and see if there is a mac or windows logo on it. You can't do this with Linux.
I fail to see how the lack of commercial software library is a loss for the consumer. The consumer don't care if the software is commercial or not as long as it does what they want.
No they don't care if it is commercial but there aren't enough open source alternatives to commercial software. There still isn't a good itunes alternative which is used by almost every person I know.
RE[3]: Customers don't want Linux
by lemur2 on Wed 4th Nov 2009 01:37
in reply to "RE[2]: Customers don't want Linux"
Member since:2007-02-17
Building a hardware device that doesn't work for Windows would be an extremely poor business decision.
Not at all. The significant majority of computing hardware equipment that is made today, or already is in existance, doesn't work with Windows 7.
ARM CPUs are a good example. Any x86 PC more than a few years old is another. Supercomputers and large parrallel arrays of machines run Linux, as does a fair percentage of servers.
No they don't care if it is commercial but there aren't enough open source alternatives to commercial software. There still isn't a good itunes alternative which is used by almost every person I know.
Amarok is the best available music collection manager, and it works fine with iPods.
If you need a source where you can legally purchase music, buy a CD. You can buy CDs online if you want. Amarok can rip it for you and put the result on your iPod for you.
Edited 2009-11-04 01:57 UTC
RE[3]: Customers don't want Linux
by Soulbender on Wed 4th Nov 2009 15:07
in reply to "RE[2]: Customers don't want Linux"
Member since:2005-08-18
Building a hardware device that doesn't work for Windows would be an extremely poor business decision.
Dependson your definition of "working". There's plenty of hardware that supposedly work but are hampered by buggy drivers or by simply not being of very high quality. I've had quite a few items (examples: USB ethernet nic, USB wireless nic) that worked out of the box in Linux (and OpenBSD) but required me to go hunting for reasonably working drivers for Windows.
People can go to the store, look at a hardware device and see if there is a mac or windows logo on it. You can't do this with Linux.
That doesn't mean there aren't issues with that, or other, hardware.
No they don't care if it is commercial but there aren't enough open source alternatives to commercial software
Perhaps but that's a different problem
There still isn't a good itunes alternative which is used by almost every person I know.
Having never used iTunes I wouldn't know. I will agree that I'm not very happy about any of the audio players in Linux though. That's not saying they're not working, I just don't like how they work.
Member since:
2005-08-18
I like how you make it sound like there are no hardware compayibility issues with Windows. You must not have used Windows for very long.
It also does not have a multimillion dollar marketing machine behind it.
I fail to see how the lack of commercial software library is a loss for the consumer. The consumer don't care if the software is commercial or not as long as it does what they want.