Scott Dorsey wrote:
William Sommerwerck wrote:
If Windows (and to a lesser degree, the Mac OS) didn't exist, there
would likely be a plethora of operating systems, and people would be
complaining "Why can't we have a single standard?".

And this was what it was like in the seventies and eighties. And,
overall it was a good thing because it encouraged people to make
their applications portable.

I think having a heterogeneous environment is a good thing for a lot
of different reasons, not just because it makes malware propagation
more difficult but also because it forces people to think about the
compromises being made in their implementations.

It also means that people developing more complex systems based
around a computer (like a DAW for instance) have more choices. Often
those systems have requirements which are very different than those
of "general purpose" computing appliances and it is good to have such
choices available when they are needed.
--scott
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It used to be necessary to optimise this and that, but now with the extra
cpu power available I don't dick with things, and simply install all
suggested updates. And guess what - zero problems for years now .


geoff