“No one needs Windows”
Posted by ePlus on 26 October, 2007 at 21:44 pmThis is a very true quote taken from a comment made on Slashdot by morgan_greywolf (835522) on the Microsoft’s XO Laptop Strategy story.
Here’s a fact: everybody needs an OS to do useful work on their computer. No one needs Windows. The fact is, despite what some might say, Linux is perfectly useable for the vast majority of computer users … the people who claim they “need” Windows, other than hard-core gamers (since their major application is not available on Linux), if they really examined what they truly needed (a word processor, a web browser, a spreadsheet, a personal finance app), vs. what they claim they need (”100% Microsoft Office compatibility”), they’ll find that most of what they claim as a need to have Windows is really a want and not a true need. A small — but significant — minority of computer users actually need Windows because the application they need has no equivalent on Linux.


