#Textwrangler for windows 8 how to

I don't often have the 'How Could Linux Gain Real Traction?' conversation any more. But I also feel I've heard this post far, far too many times. Just watch, Android will emerge as a desktop OS someday, and it'll make waves.ДЄlmost everything in the parent post is correct. Or will it be something that the common user will be able to be productive with?

#Textwrangler for windows 8 how to

What's it gonna be? Something that only we enlightened Slashdot readers can really learn how to use? That's where we're at. A particular Linux distribution could possibly be marketed well and succeed, but that would require dreadful amounts of money that FOSS just doesn't produce. Everyone was used to things being one way and they made something different look sexy to the general public. As much as I don't enjoy using their products, which seem to be designed to prevent you from doing anything that wasn't in their somewhat specific list of use cases, they got that right - it just works for their use cases. It has to be compatible with a huge variety of ways of thinking, and Windows has entrenched itself so deeply within the psyche of computer users that anything new absolutely needs to be similar and Just Work without loads of configuration.ДЄpple did the Just Work thing right. Not something to scratch the itch of the UNIX guru 1%, because that part of the beast lives under the hood anyway. Having something that works for a majority of people - both the home user world AND the office drone world - is what we need. It might work just fine for people who just want to surf the Web though.

You have to become a power user to have more than half a clue of what you're doing and get it to stop being in your way. It's really hard to get used to it, and it isn't exactly self-explanatory. Departing from Windows in that direction was harmful. Well, not every direction away from Windows is productive.ДЇor example.