Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G...
by beagle3 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:22AM
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My desktop ran Enlightenment 0.15 around 1999. It was a hundred times more beautiful and usable than anything Windows could offer at the time (including stardock/windowblinds). It was less usable for non technical people, but it was usable and the horrible IE lock-in has not yet happened at that point.
Competition is good, but it is entirely speculation whether windows promoted or stalled progress by virtue of being a monopoly; my vote is “stalled”.
Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G...
by executesorder66 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:16AM
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Competition is always good. I agree with that.
But you don't need Windows or OSX for competition.
There are already multiple DE's and WM's for Linux that are already competing with each other.
> There are features of Linux Desktop they probably would never have existed if they hadn't been created on Windows or OSX.
I doubt that. In an alternate universe where windows and OSX never existed, I'm pretty sure someone somewhere would have thought up those features and implemented them.
Just like some of the Linux Desktop's compete with OSX.
It's exactly like Apple creating iOS, before iOS, we didn't have fancy colour touch phones that were visually appealing and usable. We had... Windows Mobile with a stylus that was great for work but sucked for the consumer.
Because of Apple / iOS we /had/ Windows Phone, we have Android, we've had attempts from other companies to try be competitive in this area.
There are features of Linux Desktop they probably would never have existed if they hadn't been created on Windows or OSX. JUST like there are features on Windows that wouldn't have existed if they hadn't been created on Linux or OSX.
Competition is good for all of us, regardless if you use Windows, or Linux, or OSX.