The message 735e82c241f5a80bbf628d2f184f584f@lister from Brett Parker brettp@users.sourceforge.net contains these words:
/snippetry/
Hrm - dunno about that, the only big stumbling block is IE, which them damned web developers appear to like (stupid people, non standards compliant, messes up perfectly valid CSS, etc, etc, not going here this morning),
Oh, I am. Wait for it!
and as for commercial software, which bits are you meaning? There's quite a few of the IDE manufacturers out there now writing linux versions... For pretty things, we've got RenderMan and family... Commercial software is all well and good, but with a OS moving as fast as linux, they can't keep up with the development and the new libraries etc, and they don't tend to like letting out their source.
Well, Linux writers and tinkerers should make pretty damn sure that any alterations they make will keep it backwards-compatible.
It was XP looming on the horizon that prodded me into actually implementing my linux preferences.
So let's avoid "better" unless we really enjoy pointless arguments. The Mac has survived (so far) on being "different". Use that as a base and avoid the mistakes they made. Softly softly catchee monkey.
Let's think here... Mac is an entirely different kettle of fish, 1 architecture, in effect, limited, same as windows... Now, think about this carefully, between Linux and NetBSD there's not a hell of a lot of architectures left in the world that we can't run on. We may not have 'immediate' support for hardware, but it's usually not far behind, especially on popular kit, nvidea cards as an example (though, I don't like that example, binary drivers *SPIT*).
To see a quite well crafted (non-free due to crossover office and some other things), debian based, desktop solution, go look at Xandros, it works rather well (http://www.xandros.com/).
Right, end of pointless rant.
You do your rant an injustice.