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How Linux Users Should React in a Windows World
January 29, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 7 months, 1 week ago
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Many Linux users find themselves working in Windows-based environments. More often that not, this is not something that can be avoided, and to be honest, I cannot actually say for certain that it should be. Despite the resistance from some Linux users to remain familiar with other operating systems, there is a certain level of importance in making sure that Windows does remain something that you are familiar with. And I say this for a number of reasons. Today, I will examine the advantages on all fronts as to being fluent with more than one OS.
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How Linux Users Should React in a Windows World
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 77.237.116.175] on January 30, 2008 02:49 PMTools/languages like Java and PHP are trying very hard to as much as possible platform independent. They are doing good job in my opinion. From my experience there are always some additional problems on Windows platform. I am planing to charge more for deployment on Windows platform, and present it as discount on UNIX-like platforms,
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People should not try to support Windows platform unless they are certified. Windows are complicated compared to simple, straightforward logic of UNIX. There are many things that should simply be taken for granted and person need to be lectured about them. People should stick to what they know.
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