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Why Windows Rules: the QWERTY phenomenon?
f0dder:
You can't compare DVORAK/QWERTY to Linux/Windows.
DVORAK is demonstrably better than QWERTY, at least as long as you're primarily writing English.
Linux (and open source software) is usually inferior to Windows/Commercial software in one way or another, be it lack of documentation, less features, more bugs, whatever. Yes, it's free, and the features might be good enough for you, and there are niches where free software is better, fair enough... but usually it's (at least slightly) inferior.
We might all be faster at typing if it wasn't for the designed-to-slow-us-down QWERTY standard, but it's not like if the world would be a magically better place if the majority weren't running Windows.
Ralf Maximus:
See, I've become more agnostic regarding operating systems.
In short: use whatever works for YOU.
If you run BeOs and think the rest of the world is crazy for not adopting it, fine. If you're a Mac user, good on you. Whatever makes you productive and happy is best.
The constant hand-wringing over Windows being on top despite questionably inferior technology is counter productive. When a better mousetrap comes along, people will adopt it... it's just that simple. Note that until FireFox came along, 99% of Windows users never even considered departing IE.
But "better" has to have quantitative benefits. Just because the kernel is way cooler or open source or from anyplace but Redmond shouldn't (and doesn't) matter. When Linux can kick Windows' ass in a spectacular and compelling fashion, the IE-->FF migration will repeat, but with operating systems.
Until that time, articles like this just piss me off.
40hz:
Until that time, articles like this just piss me off.
-Ralf Maximus (November 27, 2008, 07:00 AM)
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Why?
I didn't see anything in the original article, or in this thread, that warrants anybody getting "pissed off" as you so eloquently put it.
Care to clarify?
Ralf Maximus:
It's the waste-of-effort of analyzing a well understood trend that irritates me.
The simple fact that articles like this exist, if you will.
Windows is installed on zillions of workstations. Why? Because it's always been that way. When will it change? When something tremendously better compels us to switch. Until then, analyzing why everyone runs Windows when "better" operating systems exist seems like wankery.
BTW, I may sound like I'm hammering this out with fists of fury, but I'm not. I'm quite calm and relaxed right now, thinking about fluffy, fluffy bunnies.
40hz:
It's the waste-of-effort of analyzing a well understood trend that irritates me.
The simple fact that articles like this exist, if you will.
Windows is installed on zillions of workstations. Why? Because it's always been that way. When will it change? When something tremendously better compels us to switch. Until then, analyzing why everyone runs Windows when "better" operating systems exist seems like wankery.
-Ralf Maximus (November 27, 2008, 07:50 AM)
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And therefor, because you have settled this issue in your own mind (and to your own complete satisfaction) this discussion is a waste of everyone else's time too?
My goodness! What would your fluffy bunnies think? ;D
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