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Comment by donniezazen | Hacker News Reader

I just find it hard to understand why should so much money, time and energy should be spent on making Metro version of VLC considering it might be only useful on one niche product.

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Er, yes. Windows 8 and Windows RT are very niche products, aren't they, with install bases in the millions...

Yeah, it will start approach desktop linux share now...

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Seriously, I'm one of those who bought Windows 8 upgrade. Does not mean I'm using it, after two hours of cursing, Windows 7 was back.

I also bought Windows 8. After a few hours getting used to it, I'm happy with it.

You must be some kind of computing god! No mere moral could ever understand Windows 8!

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The desktop environment is the same though.

It's even better... Windows Explorer has a saner user interface, for example.

(Say what you want about Ribbon in Office, it's worked well for the built-in Windows apps)

I see this argument over and over, and I can't imagine why someone would go back to Win 7, even if all you use is the desktop.

If you read it, and apply a bit of thinking, you should see that it isn't just about "having a metro version of VLC". It's a huge codebase update, and as they also mention, this work will be applicable to other open-source applications looking to run on Metro and/or ARM.

I find it a little contradictory to call an application open-source and then its developer spend huge resources beautifying an-already-awesome-software for a proprietary operating system.

Ah yes, because what distinguishes open-source from not-open-source is how much effort is spent on the interface. Every true open-source aficionado understands that interface is the least important part of software (this is why Linux will win the desktop)

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