On 14/01/18 17:02, Pascal Obry wrote:
Benjamin,
That's not the point. Take GIMP (it has been discussed recently) there
is more users on Windows and almost no contributor for this platform
and so the port is hard to maintain.
Soon this will also be true for dt, a lot of Windows users are moving
to dt. Fine. But among them some are certainly computer scientist,
right? What are they doing? Nothing.
Pascal, without having any global data, I suspect that the sheer
difference of number of users makes this statement... difficult. In my
sample at my University, the percentage of windows user able to compile
a program (or that even know what that mean) is really lower than the
one in the Linux users. To the point that being us Linux users around
the 2%, we are the 50% of people compiling software and doing bug
hunting and reporting (more or less). Mac is more or less midway... and
we are an Engineering School.
Notice that this is not a negative comment on windows users --- they're
using what's more useful for them. So while I see why a Linux user can
try to (like myself) at least contribute in what he can, the union of
the set of windows users --- advanced hobbyst photographers --- computer
"geeks" will be smaller than the one you can find if you change
"windows" to "linux". And on the other hand, the number of users is so
much higher that the group that join the first two groups here will
easily overwhelm, in number, the full set of linux users.
Romano
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Romano Giannetti
http://www.rgtti.com/
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