notepad++ is incredibly usefull to lua scripting, and if set up properly makes a good table editor too. damn fine program.
Open source != better.
i never claimed it to be better. it certainly is a hella lot cheaper though.
of course the same can be said about commercial software. more accurately the quality of the software depends on the quality of the design team. compare pidgin to trillian. trillian has more features, but i tend to find that a majority of them dont work. i think i only got things like webcam chat to work properly only once. pidgin is much simpler and makes a damn good instant messanger. either one will always be better than the free one you get from whoever you pick as your im service. those work well only when on their own service using their program, if you can stand the ads. in this case open source = win
then theres winamp. newer versions tend to be bloated but at least getting old skool functionaity is as easy as uninstalling a bunch of the dlls that come with it. ive yet to see open source produce a better audio player. not that ive looked much. ive been using it sence the day i discovered what an mp3 was in my high school com sci class. closed source = win.
then you get into apis, you know like sdl and opengl. compair that their closed source windows counterpart, directx, i tend to favor the open. why, trans-compatability. mainly old dx games not even remotely useable under new versions. open = win
now linux is only really good if youre a super-geek. ive spent too much time scratching my head at the terminal though. the only way to really learn anything is to stare at a rather bloaded and dull manusal pages. i read for 2 hours and still didnt get gcc to compile my sdl proggie. but then again look at windows. bill gates knows that as long as linux has that gargantuan learning curve they will always win out to your average joe blow computer user. linux is still good though. it works and even loads faster than vista software is a ***** to install, usually having to config and run make files with commands you dont even understand what do. but then you look at windows which has even more arbitrary bull****. as far as operating systems go i dont thing anyone has done a really good job. ive never seen any os get more than 3 stars on any general software ranking system. so as far as oses go its a stalemate at best.
my point is mainly that sometimes opensource is good (as you see here on hlp), and sometimes its bad, and the same can be said about closed source. so dont try to prove your point with hard logic
