Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 821
if you use your computer to talk to the real world sometimes you are stuck with windows if you want to get the work done.
That's ludicrous, every OS can get on the internet. Adobe has PDF writers for every OD iinm, and Star Office will read your
The onlt three reasons I can see for Windows is Excel, the program that does slideshows (what's that called again, haven't used it for years), and playing some games.
Unfortunately, there are hardware vendors who don't bother supporting anything but windows
Sad that there are such narrow minded vendors, but true.
And even out of those 3 reasons, OpenOffice has Calc in regards to Excel and it even can read/write in Excel format. And it has the slideshow/presentation app too, though the name escapes me (who actually uses slideshow stuff these days???)
So really the only reason left is the games, and half of them work perfectly fine thru Wine (and yes that's not an emulator) for example WoW has been working fine for years.
If game developers stopped developing only using directx, the windows home market would collapse. It's surprising to see that so many home users stick to Windows just because of games. A number of friends/coworkers of mine use their OS of choice for 99% of their computer activity and keep a dual-boot XP partition for games only.
