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Winning the Linux Wars (MCP)

Posted Jan 9, 2006 20:53 UTC (Mon) by oak (guest, #2786)
In reply to: Winning the Linux Wars (MCP) by man_ls
Parent article: Winning the Linux Wars (MCP)

One thing in which Windows is better than Linux is that *all* the support
documentation (help files etc) is localized (translated). System which
you don't understand is not very usable.

Pro's on the Linux side are that Linux has partial translation to more
languages than Windows and one can easily fill the missing translations
even just be producing .po from the .mo file, translating what's missing
and then converting it back to .po (+testing+iteration). The problem is
that there should be more translators.

(At home I've had Linux for last 10+ years and at work for last 8+ years,
no Windows, but I have some relatives with Windows machines.)

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Winning the Linux Wars (MCP)

Posted Jan 9, 2006 22:17 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

There are endless aspects where Windows makes a better system than Linux, and viceversa. The point is that Windows is not, all in all, a very good product: poor usability, bad support, lousy security record... It is difficult to find a worse combination.