On 2/22/2012 10:59 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
For me as a student, this will force me to buy and use Windows immediately, which I haven't used since Windows 3.1. It is absolutely crucial for me to be able to view all websites, and a lot of them use flash. The day this will no longer be possible on my linux machine, I _have_ to use Windows (to quit at university is no option).
Heinz:
You paint this as a black or white situation. How this all turns out is yet to be seen. But I think you have to assume that there is no way to completely escape Windows, its just a matter of how little you have to use it for.
I've been trying to "kick the Windows habit" for awhile and it gets better and better each year. But I know that there are just going to be situations where Windows is best (or only). And, to me, that's part of the landscape.
Doesn't matter if you are a student, someone in the game, or retired. The OS world is what it is and you need to change as the landscape alters itself.
I am not OSX savvy, so I don't know if one can live in a primary Linux world and secondary OSX with no connection to Windows. My gut says that its a difficult one as I have been burned too many times on OSX ports of Windows packages being lacking.
One should use the best tool for the task. Paul