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On 2024-05-26, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:You're in the minority no matter how you spin it. A lot of people just held onto Windows XP until it stopped being supported in 2015 or moved to 7 once it was available. Some people truly love Linux, but a lot of the people who tried it moved right back onto Windows because something they enjoyed was suddenly missing.On 2024-05-25 3:44 p.m., DFS wrote:I upgraded to Linux from Windows XP.On 5/25/2024 1:11 PM, Joel wrote:>shitv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:>
>"So sorry, but Vista is a big sales and financial success for MS - and
will shortly finish wiping the floor with Linux and it's 392 free
distros." - some dumb fsck
And it did wipe the floor with Linux - as EVERY desktop Windows version
has - reaching 24% market share within a couple/few years, while Linux
never even reached 2% within 20 years.
Fact.
>>That really is funny,>
It WAS funny to see various drunk cola idiots declare Vista a "failure".
I watched it in realtime, here on cola.
>
But some Win over Lin beatdowns are funnier than others. The funniest
ones are those where the goobers at the Free Software Foundation declare
"victory" over MS or Windows - AFTER MS sells hundreds of millions of
Windows licenses.
>
I don't know if Microsoft can recover from those beatdowns.
I actually thought that Vista was pretty good. It was slow to refresh a
Windows Explorer window for whatever reason, but it was otherwise
alright on a decent machine. I've said it before here though: the betas
were absolutely awful and when we got word that it was releasing to
manufacturer, I was very surprised. The product was nowhere near ready
to ship, in my opinion.
>>because of how many people literally put XP on machines sold with Vista.>
That's just lies and imagination.
Low-end machines with Vista pre-installed probably had many owners ask
friends to install XP on it for them. I have no doubt about it,
actually. However, the numbers were probably not that large. Most people
probably suffered through Vista and eventually upgraded when 7 was released.
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