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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: For The Gamers
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 06:21:52 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-12-22, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> Le 2024-12-22 à 00:30, RonB a écrit :
>> On 2024-12-21, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> Le 2024-12-21 à 17:36, RonB a écrit :
>>>> On 2024-12-21, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>> Le 2024-12-21 à 14:02, rbowman a écrit :
>>>>>> https://www.wired.com/story/2024-was-the-year-the-bottom-fell-out-of-the-
>>>>>> games-industry/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd seen a few articles but never paid much attention. RPI put a lot of
>>>>>> effort into their video game degree program and thought the spinoffs might
>>>>>> revitalize the upstate NY economy. I wonder if they missed the boat or if
>>>>>> the industry will spring back?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Linux: who really cares if games run on Linux? It's a serious OS for
>>>>>> serious people.
>>>>>
>>>>> If it were a serious operating system for serious people, businesses and
>>>>> academic institutions would be willing to run it, and invest in the
>>>>> people necessary to troubleshoot it. Instead, both have realized that
>>>>> its free cost does not result in savings of any kind because the
>>>>> problems it causes often can't be resolved by even the most gifted of
>>>>> technical staff. That's why they use Windows, even with the security issues.
>>>>
>>>> The reason they use Windows is because it runs Microsoft Office (and
>>>> businesses are "married" to this crap)
>>>
>>> They do use Microsoft Office but there is no denying that it is superior
>>> to what's available to Linux. Perhaps WPS Office can compete at some
>>> level, but most people I know who use spreadsheet software say that
>>> LibreOffice is sorely lacking in the functionality they use daily.
>>> Additionally, they say that the functionality it does provide is nowhere
>>> near the level of Microsoft's.
>> 
>> I'm denying it. I despise MicroCrap Office. Worthless bloatware.
>> 
>> I used Calc in OpenOffice at work before LibreOffice ever existed. For my
>> purposes it worked fine. Spreadsheets are overused for data purposes anyhow.
>> If you want a database use a database software.
>
> Your opinion on spreadsheets and the software used to make them won't 
> sway people like my wife who calculates financial risk and needs to 
> report it to the investors. For people like her, Calc is not even up for 
> consideration because Microsoft's software is robust and has been 
> offering reliable service for decades. There were stronger competitors 
> to Excel than Calc in the past, competitors that had already made lots 
> of headway, and they too were left in the dust. It's not all because of 
> "shady business practises" either.

I don't think "robustness" has anything to do with it. I think it comes down 
to what the others expect. It's basically a monopoly product and, as I 
mentioned with Windows, monopolies have an inertia loop that's hard for 
businesses to exit from. It has nothing to do with the supposed "quality" of 
the product — it has everything to do with "this is what we're used to 
using."

In my opinion M$ Office is bloated crapware that tries to "think" for you. 
But I was only occasionally forced to use it so I never got in stuck in the 
"inertia loop."

My wife uses Power Point. She originally used it because a template she 
purchased only worked with Power Point. Now she's used to using it, so 
she'll probably keep using it as long as she needs to prepare classes. Just 
the way it works. People use what they're used to using. Inertia.

That's why so many still use the inferior Microsoft Windows crap OS.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien