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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (Up_Mixed) Stereo_To_Surround_Sound
Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 02:17:24 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-05-26, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On 2024-05-26 8:21 a.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2024-05-26, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>> On 2024-05-25 3:44 p.m., DFS wrote:
>>>> On 5/25/2024 1:11 PM, Joel wrote:
>>>>> shitv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> "So sorry, but Vista is a big sales and financial success for MS - and
>>>>>> will shortly finish wiping the floor with Linux and it's 392 free
>>>>>> distros."  -  some dumb fsck
>>>>
>>>> And it did wipe the floor with Linux - as EVERY desktop Windows version
>>>> has - reaching 24% market share within a couple/few years, while Linux
>>>> never even reached 2% within 20 years.
>>>
>>> Fact.
>>>
>>>>> That really is funny,
>>>>
>>>> It WAS funny to see various drunk cola idiots declare Vista a "failure".
>>>>    I watched it in realtime, here on cola.
>>>>
>>>> But some Win over Lin beatdowns are funnier than others.  The funniest
>>>> ones are those where the goobers at the Free Software Foundation declare
>>>> "victory" over MS or Windows - AFTER MS sells hundreds of millions of
>>>> Windows licenses.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if Microsoft can recover from those beatdowns.
>>>
>>> I actually thought that Vista was pretty good. It was slow to refresh a
>>> Windows Explorer window for whatever reason, but it was otherwise
>>> alright on a decent machine. I've said it before here though: the betas
>>> were absolutely awful and when we got word that it was releasing to
>>> manufacturer, I was very surprised. The product was nowhere near ready
>>> to ship, in my opinion.
>>>
>>>>> because of how many people literally put XP on machines sold with Vista.
>>>>
>>>> That's just lies and imagination.
>>>
>>> Low-end machines with Vista pre-installed probably had many owners ask
>>> friends to install XP on it for them. I have no doubt about it,
>>> actually. However, the numbers were probably not that large. Most people
>>> probably suffered through Vista and eventually upgraded when 7 was released.
>> 
>> I upgraded to Linux from Windows XP.
>
> You're in the minority no matter how you spin it. A lot of people just 
> held onto Windows XP until it stopped being supported in 2015 or moved 
> to 7 once it was available. Some people truly love Linux, but a lot of 
> the people who tried it moved right back onto Windows because something 
> they enjoyed was suddenly missing.

Basically the only thing I missed in Linux was Movie Magic Screenwriter, but 
I ran it in a virtual machine for a few years until Trelby came out. 

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