Re:Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System
by Qworg on Sunday August 20, 2017 @01:06PM
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That 5% is critical though and part of the reason that Office is so hard to dislodge. For that 5% of users, that feature is critical. Stack up enough features and you can be unassailable.
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Re:Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System
by tomc1985 on Sunday August 20, 2017 @02:52PM
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I wish that was the mentality.
"Oh, but why should we allocate resources to something the majority of users won't use?" - everyone on HN
Re:Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System
by tormeh on Sunday August 20, 2017 @06:33PM
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Well, that does make the common stuff excellent. And I would guess that the amount of people that have a weird must-have feature (that isn't just a result of misunderstanding the software) is pretty low.