[Discuss] Essentially all free apps will soon be available on Windows

[Murray Strome]

Adam Parkin wrote:
> Deryk Barker wrote:  
>>
>> My wife certainly does - she abandoned windoze for linux about 5 years
>> ago because she became frustrated with windows.  And I gave up 
>> windows almost a decade ago - apart from having to face
>> it every day at work.
My wife also uses only LINUX
>
> Hmm, I dont' think I'd be making too controversial a claim if I stated 
> that Windows has improved somewhat since the Win9X days. =;->
I would agree that it is better in SOME ways, however when things go 
wrong with XP they REALLY go wrong and the problems are no where as easy 
to fix as with LINUX.   Just as an example, if the system gets "blown" 
and has to be reloaded, it is MUCH more difficult and time consuming to 
get back to a working OS with all the fixes (unless you have done all 
the work of creating a bootable CD with SP2 AND all of the updates since 
then -- not a trivial task at all).

I know I have posted complaints about things in LINUX from time to time, 
but when Windows goes wrong, it is a REAL problem!

I certainly have no intention of paying for an "upgrade" to Vista.  If 
the software I use now use on Windows finally becomes unsupported with 
XP,  I guess I will really start investigating alternatives for LINUX.  
The two things that I am pretty well stuck with in Windows are Pinnacle 
Studio (for video editing) and income tax preparation software. I 
believe that there things are progressing on the video editing side, but 
I haven't even seen anything else for Windows that can compare with 
Pinnacle (excepting the very expensive professional systems). Certainly 
offerings from Cyberlink, Nero and Roxio don't come close.

Murray