On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 12:37 -0400, Ken Jennings wrote:
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.
I realize I'm nitpicking here, but "windows user(s)" and "typical windows user(s)" can be two completely different animals. The first is all inclusive, and a poor choice of words, the second has built in exclusions, i.e. those who write and compile windows apps.