It's not that it's the choice, it's the choice that has been shoved down our throats, by heavily funded marketing.
Yea Linux is good for servers etc, but the guy was claiming that if the next Windows workstation OS fails that Linux would take over - which is complete BS, people would rather run XP than Linux if all Windows OSs since XP suddenly vanished No doubt as you say *nix is here to stay, but it will never be a mainstream workstation / home OS, if Microsoft went under and took all ISOs from the world with them, people would move to MacOS not Linux, albeit pretty similar under the hood, but much more user friendly UI/interaction/usability - Linux is a tech-heads play thing / coders toy, not a dumb users home OS I know my way around Linux enough to get by using it 24/7 if I chose to, but after about 30 mins of using *nix, I want to kill my PC
At least Linux is open. Apple isn't exactly a saint either. You give Apple enough market share, they will slack off more so than any other company. This is the reason why we hear about iPhone, iPad because of their low market share of Mac OS X back in 2007. With the majority switching to Linux, there'll be no bully. If Ubuntu bullies us, we'll switch to CentOS, same kernel, same everything, just a different distro. This is what's great about competition.
Open doesn't mean jack when it comes to usability The majority? LMAO, no, unless you live in a house with 10 people and 9 of them move to Linux, the Majority are not moving to Linux, they are staying with Windows
Never say never. If MS screws up Windows 10, Photoshop may be moving to Linux over time and eventually the whole industry. This is MS's last chance to make it right. Believe what you want. Bottom line is, Windows 10 should have a bi-weekly release for Windows Insiders on Fast Rings. Why create fast rings when nothing have been release since mid-Nov 2014!! It's Jan 15 already and we see absolutely nothing! Fast ring my crack insider bum.
No. I have no idea why Neowin posted this article, it isn't news. 9901 has been able to do this since it leaked, there is nothing which indicates that 9918 or 9916 is the JTP, it likely isn't.
Ignore that Neowin post, it doesn't mean anything, there have been a bunch of builds both on the slow and fast ring, nothing abnormal, nothing important!
Keep in mind that this, at the moment, is internal. That means that the small group at Microsoft that is specifically in charge of the fbl_awesome1501 branch currently has two internal builds going on, one on the Slow ring and one on the Fast ring. They have to now find the right balance, or should I say the right build, to get that right balance between relative long-term stability (for continued support with patches) or the right amount of wow factor (new features) to show off at the event. It doesn't mean much for us because we don't have access to these yet. Simply just means Microsoft is determining the most stable build over the next week or so. Those builds on Slow ring and Fast ring could very well change again as the event gets closer.
I suspect you are right. Nothing real to look at now so each little "thing" becomes the "mountain from the mole hill". With any kind of luck from the Gods of Goodness, we'll have a new toy on the 21st - about 10 days from now - give or take a day depending where you are on the 21st.
Yea ok buddy, sounds like we have a Linux fanboi over here.... Windows aint going nowhere, even if MS f**k up Win 10, Win 7 will be around for years and years, don't believe me? Check out how many people still use XP... You can wish linux to take over all you like, it's never gonna happen And it's not MS's last chance to make it right, not by a long stretch, they could make the next 4 Windows OS's as bad as Vista and people will still buy and use them over Linux You're living in lala land if you think Linux will ever overtake Windows as a home OS