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Re: complainers
by Joshua Lokken on Friday 02/Aug/2002, @16:10
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This is addressed to those who are complaining that KDE/Cygwin is preventing 'Windows users' from 'converting' to *NIX: Do you really think that the people trying Cygwin are 'Windows users', or folks who use *NIX whenever possible, but are constrained to a Windows box at work, etc.? The latter, I think, for the most part. Also, what do you think the rate is at which people are 'converting to *NIX?' Probably not very high. In fact, mr./mrs. *NIX user, I would bet you have a Windows box available most of the time, don't you now? It's just not cut-and-dried. I was introduced to PCs about 2 years ago, and placed in front of a WinNT box. Not everyone's dream, right? A couple of months later, we upgraded to Win2k, and then I decided to check out *NIX. I got a copy of FreeBSDs latest release, and dove in. I now use *NIX and Windows at work and at home. Anyway, long story short, while I prefer FreeBSD to the Microsoft OSs I've used, I would bet my story is alot more 'common' than you might think. People use what gets the job done. No one strictly buys Ford or Chevy [and nothing else] anymore.
KDE Cygwin is a 'good idea.'
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Re: complainers
by Simon Heinzle on Wednesday 08/Sep/2004, @11:05
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You're right -- it's not just that black and white, sometimes you have to use windows, there is no way around it -- but for productiveness I choose (and like) *nix.
Thanks you all folks creating a nicer Windows :)
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Re: complainers
by Radiantmatrix on Friday 28/Oct/2005, @09:39
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Excellent points, it's about time someone said it. I've been getting *really* annoyed by all the people who think ports of popular Free software are somehow hurting the use of Free OSes. The logic I've heard goes like this:
* User can get all the Free tools they want on Windows
* User figures "I have no compelling reason to switch to $FREE_OS"
It's crap. I think it goes more like this:
* User thinks $FREE_OS isn't worth it
* User finds lots of Free tools that work very well on Windows, but are ports of tools created on $FREE_OS
* User starts to think $FREE_OS might be very good, since they had all these tools a lot sooner.
I've seen that first-hand. My father-in-law is a Windows user. Frustrated with IE, he tried Firefox and loved it. As he's an astronomy buff, I pointed him at Celestia, which he enjoys immensely. Audacity helped him with his LP -> CD project. OpenOffice saved him $400 when he needed to generate documents at home for consumtion at work.
Suddenly, he realized that *every computing need he has* is being filled by OpenSource software. Why, then, was he paying for Windows? He's now in the process of converting entirely to Linux. I doubt he would have made the effort to change everything about his work habits at once: and doing things like porting KDE to Windows gives people the chance to "fall back" easily when the learning curve slows their work.
Kudos on this project, and never let anyone tell you this is harming the Free OS community: those people are clueless about how people make decisions.
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Re: complainers
by Kumar Kanagarajah on Monday 24/Apr/2006, @00:01
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I initially got into Linux after having headaches working with a Windows 2k server. As a server Linux works like a charm, however I still need Windows on my work PC because of some custom Windows apps which my company use. Cygwin lets me have a little bit of Linux on my machine where otherwise it would had only been Windows
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