[OT] Windows dying

[codephantom]

On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 18:42:07 UTC, Bo wrote:
> /Signed: A pissed off Windows user

I think you've summed it all up right there ;-)

But seriously, Windows rightly has its place... and for good 
reasons.

Most importantly, it provided the ease of installation along with 
a easy to use and easy to understand GUI, that simply could not 
be provided by open source alternatives.

Things have changed a lot though, over the last decade.

The only thing I can think of, that is wrong with Windows, is 
that you can't fork it. Therefore it cannot evolve, unless the 
vendor wants it to, and even then, only in the way the vendor 
wants it to.

But software is for the user, not the vendor. A user should be 
able to adapt software to meet their own requirements. Closed 
source prevents that.

I think open-source really is the future, and Windows will fade 
into obscurity - but only if open source continues to deliver the 
benefits that Windows has always been able to deliver. If that 
keeps occuring, then there is little justification for having a 
closed source operating system - whether you call it Windows or 
whatever.

And I think trust will become a bigger issue in the near future 
too...i.e. how can you trust code you can't view? You can barely 
even trust code you can view ;-)

Having a go at a platform is not the same as having a go at the 
users of the platform. Please understand the difference. Even in 
the open source world, opinions differ... a lot.

/Signed: Happy FreeBSD user.