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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Viable alternative with no programs? Forget it. There is no viable alternative to Windows. Linux isn't all the viable when the programs you want to run don't work without Windows. OS X isn't a viable alternative as you need to dump the computer you already own and buy some flavor MAC. That's not viable nor cost effective. Basically the only thing on the list that's a viable alternative to Windows 10 is Windows 7.
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Well yeah, that's kinda what I was saying.
Minus the "linux isn't at all viable" bit, because many things are available and it
might be viable...
... although the killer feature for Windows is still the
unparalleled app availability.
But my point regarding Haiku was entirely different.
Seriously fringe OSes with considerable lack of polish and comparatively little support for common hardware aren't even an option to be quickly dismissed.
Even sticking to Open-Source, which makes linux viable, isn't going to make some of those OSes viable. Most Open-Source end-user applications aren't designed to run on anything other than Windows/linux/OSX.
I believe it is considered a minor-though-not-insurmountable struggle just to get linux software to compile on *BSD. Anything more exotic is pretty iffy if you ask me.