Unless the number and order of arguments differs. Then the concept map would have to become what amounts to a class with inline methods.

How many individual users who are not IT professionals are willing to learn to log in and fix a broken GConf or do anything else on a desktop PC running GNU/Linux* without X?

And run what in VMware? Running Windows in VMware is still running Windows, which is what h4rr4r is claiming to be able to avoid.

Good luck creating a replacement for AutoCAD or for the parts of Adobe Photoshop that GIMP doesn't replace using only hobbyist labor.

You have no desire to run Windows until the moment you get a job in an industry whose standard applications are unavailable for GNU/Linux and rated "garbage" in Wine AppDB.

Your complaint is that the filenames of open documents would be lost across a restart. That can be solved as I described elsewhere. Then all you'd have to do is click your pinned applications on the taskbar, and those tabs will reopen. Firefox and Notepad++ already support this.

Session save and restore means the session gets serialized to persistent storage and deserialized after a restart, and it is assumed that the process of serializing and deserializing would give the application a chance to sanitize the loaded data. Besides, even if one application or operating system component is hiccuping hard enough to break its own session save and restore, other applications might still restore correctly.

The iTunes application runs on a Mac, but the Windows version does not run in Wine. The AppDB entry for the latest version states that when the user starts it, it refuses to open and instead claims it needs to be reinstalled.

Something like that was my sig once, back when the MyCleanPC troll was pasting his drivel.

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Clean, precise, pangolin-powered. MyCleanPC.

Fingers on 7-10" tablets are stuck at a blob of 6 mm. But fingers on 4" phones are also stuck at a blob of 6 mm. So that doesn't stop a tablet from showing two phone-sized apps side by side. What stops it is the fact that phone and tablet applications are allowed to assume that the screen's area won't change after installation.

When you asked "Where did successful candidates get their experience?", what reply did you get?

NZAU may have cold snowy third quarters and hot sunny first quarters perhaps, but the cold snowy season is still called "winter" and the hot sunny season "summer". I'm just tired of media publishers and the like saying that something is slated for a "winter" release when they mean "first quarter".

And in some cases, people get threatened with jail time for growing vegetables in what Americans used to call a "victory garden".

Then what's the best way to use industry-standard applications that happen to be exclusive to Windows without Windows?

For one thing, Windows 8 ships on every new name-brand PC not made by Apple, including laptops, all-in-ones, and name-brand towers. For another, Microsoft allows the use of Windows 8 OEM version on home-built towers, unlike Windows 7 where it required hobbyist PC builders to buy the more expensive retail version.