No one in his right mind should wish Microsoft failure.
I've met quite a few people, who in my opinion had quite sane and intelligent minds, who wished for MS failure, for a lot of well based reasons.
I've met quite a few people, who in my opinion had quite sane and intelligent minds, who wished for MS failure, for a lot of well based reasons.
Plus, it's not like there aren't any other options, several of them quite good. The market would adjust to fill the gap.
Right now I really find Visual Studio the best IDE. I would like to see that change (and VS has lots of problems) but it's currently head and shoulders above the rest.
[1] Further, the Linux GUI has to be one of the worst cases of optimizing for the nearly nonexistent use case ever. If you look at all users of computers today how many of them need X? A number so small as to be statistically irrelevant.
In my experience, this is largely a myth promoted by Linux hackers.
> and wouldn't take too long to convert the majority of programmers over to it
This on the other hand... is just wishful thinking.