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Occassionally people still need help with LibreOffice oddities. Also I've had intercompatibility issues with MS Office with powerpoint.
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The desktop is now irrelevant -- less than 10% of computing devices people use are desktops or laptops: it's all gone mobile frighteningly fast. It's ironic that you probably typed that with a desktop or laptop. Irrelevant? Hardly.
Dirty little secret: most people aren't content creators, even for values of "content" such as discussion topic comments.
However windows is going to retain it's grip on businesses because there is no good Active Directory replacement for Linux.
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The desktop is now irrelevant -- less than 10% of computing devices people use are desktops or laptops: it's all gone mobile frighteningly fast. It's ironic that you probably typed that with a desktop or laptop. Irrelevant? Hardly.
Dirty little secret: most people aren't content creators, even for values of "content" such as discussion topic comments.
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25 and no time to learn something new? You're doing life wrong.
You're right, why don't I have a paper published in every possible field of academic inquiry? Seriously, just because you had too much free time doesn't mean I do. I appreciate your nonsensical condescension.
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PowerShell
Powershell, Powershell, Powershell! Seriously, people, if you have to use a windows system, put some time into learning Powershell. * Most simple grep and sed commands are entirely do-able. Bit more verbose syntax, but that comes with a hell of a lot of easy-to-access power * It's all about objects, rather than plain text. This can often be a pain, but Import-Csv and Export-Csv are utter LOVE. Adding additional new p…
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Dirty little secret: most people aren't content creators, even for values of "content" such as discussion topic comments.
That's very true. And this is the very reason why tablets and smartphones are so popular - most people need only a screen with the Internet access to consume content, but those who produce the content will still need a bigger device.
Further, I dislike the touch interface of phones. I may connect a mouse to it so I can see if it's more usable. Then I'd need a Bluetooth keyboard too of course. And since my older eyes strain a bit with the tiny screen I'll probably get a SlimPort so I can read the screen on my regular monitor. Wait! My phone is now a PC!!
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That's what I never got about Windows and especially Windows devs. How can you get anything done with all that clicking and no unix tools?
IDEs and Stockholm syndrome.
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The desktop is now irrelevant -- less than 10% of computing devices people use are desktops or laptops: it's all gone mobile frighteningly fast. It's ironic that you probably typed that with a desktop or laptop. Irrelevant? Hardly.
Dirty little secret: most people aren't content creators, even for values of "content" such as discussion topic comments.
Microsoft's desktop supremacy hasn't been down to "it's got a nice, easy to use interface" for at least 20 years. Rather, Microsoft is (or was, in the pre-post-PC world) everywhere because of (a) licensing stitch-ups with hardware vendors and (b) network externalities: get into Corporate IT departments with Office, then people will want (or need) to use the same OS at home, and then you can strong-arm hardware vendor…