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Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by gaius on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @10:50AM (#11167597)
I will look you in the eye and say the Amiga and ST in 1986 were better than Windows or Ubuntu in 2016.
Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by untog on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @10:54AM (#11167634)
They might have been better at the small subset of things Windows and Ubuntu can do that the Amiga and ST were also capable of, but they are not "better".

A single screwdriver is better than a toolbox at being light and easy to carry. It is not better overall.

Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by c22 on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @12:25PM (#11168431)
But they still make screwdrivers.
Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by rwallace on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @04:20PM (#11170323)
And I'll look you right back and call bullshit. I used an Amiga in the late eighties. It was a fantastic machine for its time, certainly more advanced than the contemporary 286 PCs, but Windows 95 was markedly superior (as it should have been, a decade later), let alone modern Windows or Linux.

Yes, sometimes things get screwed up and we get understandably frustrated, but that does not license revisionist history.