On Saturday 06 May 2006 10:22, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2006-05-06 at 13:39 +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
If you knew how to swim in windows (ie, compile, use makefiles, etc), then it is not so dificult. You have to change your swiming style, that's all.
Windows users *do not* compile anything. They buy or download.
Not true. I was a dos/windows user before coming to unix or linux, and compiled a lot of things.
Since when does (or did) a compiler come with Windows? So, how does the typical Windows user compile anything? When I was using Windows I used to compile lots of stuff for Windows, because I BOUGHT a compiler. I'm a programmer. I wouldn't describe myself as just a computer "user". The overwhelming majority of people using Windows are just "users" and don't have the knowledge (or the software) to rebuild anything.