Because Shiny Things Are Fun - The New New Windows v Linux Thread
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For me, the question in the OP displays one of the problems with Linuxland. Instead of people asking, "Is anyone here still using Windows for anything?" The usual question is, "Has anyone else here stopped using Windows?" Or perhaps I am the only one who considers it a problem.
I use quite a number of OS's and expect to in the future. There are still many good reasons to use Linux as well as other OS's like Windows. Your car may have QNX or Windows or some other OS. Who knows what is in your TV.
I keep Windows around on this machine since, sadly, Amazon Video doesn't yet work for Linux and I occasionally feel like using it.
You need a speical version of Wine and a user agent that tells Amazon that you using Windows. Sadly I forgot to bookmark the webpage that tells you how to do this.
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No! I will go into this in detail in another post. I just got a new job and need to use a particular tool. There are linux equivalents but I am not sure how these affect my colleagues who are all windows based. When in Rome...
Yes I'm well aware that most of us can't ditch Windows no matter how badly we want to.
You need a speical version of Wine and a user agent that tells Amazon that you using Windows. Sadly I forgot to bookmark the webpage that tells you how to do this.
I know that there is an extension for Firefox that lets you modify your user agent, are you thinking of that?
As for me, I've been Windows-free with only one exception. My school's robotics club used Lego Mindstorms NXT bricks on the robots, and we had to use RobotC. I've looked, and people haven't been able to get it to fully run in Wine (and I wouldn't know where to begin to try myself). However, I don't think this will be a problem for long. Next year, the robotics organization (FIRST, specifically FTC if anyone's wondering) is switching to using Android phones as the processor. Though I haven't looked around much, I'm sure there is a compiler out there for Linux.
Windows-free for quite some time now, and not missing it one little bit.
I was thinking of going Windows free when I built my system two years ago. However if I did I wouldn't have brought two SSDs and use one of them for games.
Windows is the worst operating system
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PX11fW1oLc
Watch that and the ones below and replace words with the oppsite to get WIndows (example: best is worst)
Frankly, I wouldn't use any version of Windows after XP. Microsoft started putting in all sorts of crap in all of the Windows after Vista came out. I'd recommend going with Linux, one of the BSD variants, Macintosh, or Hackintosh. If you really want to get adventurous there is the later versions of Minix and Hurd to try out.
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