This week I've been reminded why Windows is so popular. I installed the latest Centos iso on a new Sandybridge board and it didn't recognize the SATA driver or the Realtek network. I ended up inserting one of those antique network cards just so I could download newer packages, and then struggling to eliminate the wretched card from the config. Even the very latest packages had wonky SATA, forcing me to run a lovely new SATA3 2TB drive in IDE mode. Whereas Windows flew onto the same board.
That reminded me of one of the reasons why so many people use Windows today: because it just goes. Most of the time. ;-) And because it has the apps. and because it's become a habit. IMHO the habit is a big part of it and the Android habit is very bad news for MS and Apple, no matter what. Once you've sourced and customized the apps you want and so have your friends, it takes a lot to shift you.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
