False dichotomy. That was a business decision with externalities foisted upon users.
Comment on My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse
cygnus@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoAll software is either shit to begin with or becomes shit when it gets big enough. If a Linux distro were forced to maintain as much legacy cruft as Windows it would be shit too.
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I see you have yet to meetmy old friend Debian, who was supporting i386 until 2 weeks ago, and includes a much broader library of softwate than Microsoft has ever maintained.
cygnus@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
This is true, but isn’t what I was referring to. The problem MS are facing is not what they themselves have built, but the huge number of apps that other businesses have built over the years which prevent MS from rewriting or deprecating many parts of the bloated zombie that is now Windows.
ragas@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Except for the fact that linux is even better at running those old apps from other vendors by now. Try running Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 software under linux with wine.
cygnus@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’m sure all those enterprise clients are positively champing at the bit to switch to Linux 🙄 Can I have a conversation about computers here without it being about Linux? And I say this as somebody who uses Linux full-time on all their computers.