There is no way you can be in IT. Yeah, I'm sure the average user wants to compile from source. Yeah, you can download build-essential and have at it or hope someone has a deb or rpm build that will...
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There is no way you can be in IT. Yeah, I'm sure the average user wants to compile from source. Yeah, you can download build-essential and have at it or hope someone has a deb or rpm build that will...
No, I didn't. I pointed out that most major apps won't run natively on Linux because of the difficulty of porting them. Openness has nothing to do with it. It's a pain to port to Linux and it isn't...
Your response is even sillier given you claim to be in IT. You don't know what you are talking about. Go look at how many distributions Mozilla builds for and the requirements. See my post about...
Firefox reinforces my point that it is a pain for major apps to be ported to Linux
Examples:
There is reason that Check for Updates... in Firefox is greyed-out on Linux.
Firefox scuttled...
No, I didn't point out the openness was a one-way street. I never said that at all nor did I imply it. Being closed-source isn't the reason major apps aren't ported to Linux. As an IT professional...
What is the compelling reason to completely switch? I can use nearly all of the major FOSS applications on Windows, but most Windows apps won't work on Linux. Canonical, the company promoting Ubuntu,...