On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 08:29:57 -0500, krw wrote:

"Android is an operating system based on the Linux kernel,"

Irrelevant. Can you run Linux apps, unchanged, on your cell phone?

Yes. See:

http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/ubuntu-for-android



For that matter the Mac OS X is *nix based

Which doesn't make it Linux, either.


Makes it a heck of a lot closer than Windows.


So what? I don't care for Windows but I really have no choice. That
was the whole point! sheesh

Unless you're talking about an employer forcing you to use Windows at
work, you've got lots of choices. Several flavors of Linux, OS X, at
least two flavors of Unix, and probably one or two oddballs I've
forgotten.

BTW, Linux Mint was designed specifically for Windows users, not computer
nerds. Try it for free.

There is one caveat on Linux. I have not yet found a free CAD for Linux
that I like. And I don't need one often enough to spring for one of the
commercial ones. So on the rare occasion that I need CAD, I reboot into
XP (with networking disabled) and run TurboCad. If my use increases one
of these days I'll get it running under Wine or VirtualBox so I don't
have to reboot.

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