Mxsmanic wrote:

David Maynard writes:


Well, they did, in fact, eventually tout that OS/2 would 'run Windows
software' which, in market terms, is tantamount to declaring Windows 'the
standard'. And then one asks, why not just get 'the real thing'?


Yup. I tell Linux users the same thing. And a lot of the older Linux
users were OS/2 fanatics before Linux came along. They can't _both_
be "the best operating system ever written."

Hehe. Well, one could argue that OS/2 was "the best operating system ever
written" as of 1995 and Linux is "the best operating system ever written"
as of 2005

But the thing that confounds the 'technically superior' crowd is that
'ignorant users' don't give a whit about 'technical superiority', they just
want, as you put it, to get the job done (with the least pain, misery, and
cost). Now, if the 'technically superior' crowd could explain why the
nuances of intertask messaging and 'a real multitasking O.S.' (sic) will
make the spell checker more brilliant then they might have a recognizable
argument but, otherwise, it's just meaningless techno babble to the average
user.

What can it do? It can run your Windows software too. Yeah? Well, so can
Windows.

Its hard to sell that.


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