Microsoft becoming pro-open source?

[iago]

linux is easy to use for the general public/

I'm not quite sure what you're talking about or who you're arguing with..

[cefx-]

I wasn't saying you don't.

I was saying if you only knew how many times I have customers uninstall Norton or Zone Alarm and it fixes the problem.

[muert0]

I've never had a problem with zonealarm. Maybe they just configure it wrong. What firewall do you have them use instead?

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

Anyway, no matter how powerful it is, face it, Linux is too hard for 97%+ of the worlds population.

[iago]

I've used WINE to run Win32 programs.  From my experience with it, the program either looks horrible GUI-wise

I figured I'd take some screenshots of some common programs running under Wine.

http://www.valhallalegends.com/iago/wine/ida.jpg
The font is a little different, but that's nothing special.


http://www.valhallalegends.com/iago/wine/opera.jpg
I can't even tell the difference.


http://www.valhallalegends.com/iago/wine/winamp.jpg
I can't tell the difference


http://www.valhallalegends.com/iago/wine/trillian.jpg
Font looks a little different.


Now if you really have experience with Wine, how can you say the gui looks much worse?  I'm confused..

[Maddox]

Why would you run Opera under wine?

[j0k3r]

Try getting any program to run as a "service" (although in Linux, there is no concept of a service, just a program that runs in the background).

Poweroff does that.

[iago]

Why would you run Opera under wine?

Because I have very few Windows programs, and that was one of them.  Shut up.

I did it because I can!!!

[deadly7]

Because I have very few Windows programs, and that was one of them.  Shut up.

I did it because I can!!!

Lol

Back on topic: If they become open source, I might actually have a motivation to learn programming.

[iago]

Try getting any program to run as a "service" (although in Linux, there is no concept of a service, just a program that runs in the background).

Poweroff does that.

hmm?  I don't know what you're talking about.

But if you mean that they stop, just run the programs you want in /etc/rc.d/rc.local -- that is the last thing executed on startup.  

[hismajesty]

Because I have very few Windows programs, and that was one of them.  Shut up.

I did it because I can!!!

Lol

Back on topic: If they become open source, I might actually have a motivation to learn programming.

What does Windows being open source have to do with you learning to program?

[MyndFyre]

Because I have very few Windows programs, and that was one of them.  Shut up.

I did it because I can!!!

Lol

Back on topic: If they become open source, I might actually have a motivation to learn programming.

Why -- so you can make "Deadly Windows" and talk about how leet your OS is?

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

LOL +1