On 9/12/19 10:20 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
T wrote:

chrisv wrote:

Here's my response.


Your response is an eMail address?

That's not an email address, it's a usenet message-id

http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=msgid&MSGI=%3Cphiknedtsvjrs4kiblk1s1egiicad 7q2bq%404ax.com%3E


Okay I see now:

T wrote:

The user does not give a s*** what OS he is using. He
only cares if his programs work. And Windows owns
the program base. From the user's point of view, if
his Quick Books and his Turbotax does not work, then
the OS does not work. He does not care why.

Many people have no need of such special applications.

I see tons of folks over two counties for the last 24 years.
There is always one program they have to run that kills Linux.
Usually is is Quick Books, and virtually every business
uses it. Some times it is M$ Office. A lot of time it
it is things like Turbo Tax and those ancestry programs.
There is always something.

And believe me, I don't care much for Windows, even though it provided
me with a fine living. I'd much rather put Linux on my customers.
It is far more reliable, faster, and to be quite honest, a lot
more fun to work on.

Oh ya, GnuCash work on Linux (I personally use it), but it does not
do inventory or payroll. And good luck trying to find an accountant
that understands it. I have personally witnessed accountants
tell Apple users with Quick Books files to go home, get a Windows
computer, and come back with a Windows quick books file.

Are you seeing a trend?


Also, as the years progress, more and more applications become
browser-based, making it less and less important what OS is being
used.

True for Cloud based programs. Edge base not so true.
And I think Cloud Based systems have met their usefulness
and have started to get a bit ridiculous.


Linux's desktop have come into their own. There
are several that are very well done and much better
than Windows 10. Linux need to concentrate on taking
over the install base of software.

The Linux community is already doing what it should be doing.

Obviously, it would be ridiculous to suggest that they could keep-up,
in applications, with the 40X larger Windows ecosystem.

As I have stated before, Linux is technically superior to Windows, and
not by a little, by a lot. From the users standpoint, if the programs
don't work, they don't care, the OS doesn't work. Here is a quarter,
go tell it to someone who cares.

Maybe the solution is for someone like Red Hat to get behind Wine
and make Wine work right for all Windows programs. But that
maybe bad too as programmers would never port to Linux.