Comments on: Positive outcomes from migration ordeal

By: Aleajandro

Aleajandro — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:48:04 +0000

Yes, I was being sarcastic. The presence of software such as Wordpad or Paint in Windows has puzzled me for years, as Microsoft won’t even support some of them properly (I wonder if there’s any current software that’ll open .wri files from MS Write, Wordpad’s predecessor (included in Windows 3.x).

My experience is the same as Ubuntucat’s: Installing Ubuntu from scratch requires a few tweaks, but doing the same with Windows requires installing tons of software (a decent browser, office suite, antivirus, firewall, spyware protection, drivers). Most Linux distros are far more useful out of the box than Windows.

By: ubuntucat

ubuntucat — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:31:51 +0000

I think Aleajandro was being sarcastic. I may be wrong about that, though.

By: Anurag Panda

Anurag Panda — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:47:01 +0000

Aleajandro Says:

You’re nuts. How can you say that Windows comes with no productivity software? I mean, everybody uses WordPad and saves their work in Word 6.0 files, right?

Wordpad – a productivity software? You would call Paint a professional graphics suite then?
I mean the programs bundled with Windows like Wordpad are limited and do not satisfy an average user’s need. On the other hand in Ubuntu there is OpenOffice.org which is more than capable software.

By: Aleajandro

Aleajandro — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:26:42 +0000

You’re nuts. How can you say that Windows comes with no productivity software? I mean, everybody uses WordPad and saves their work in Word 6.0 files, right?

As for not being Stallman-esque, I’m in the same position you are. However, I’m starting to think that Stallman’s zealotry is a carefully thought out strategy: it moves the center towards freedom (that way, we can say “I’m no RMS” to fend off the zealotry charges). By his aggresive promotion of software freedom, our moderate position becomes much more socially acceptable.