Operating Systems: Choice and design

[Kyuuketsuki]

Apart from how to install stuff? At least that's the impression everyone got when Darwinian mentioned Linux.

And, as usual when we "discuss" subjects like this, you miss the point ... what I clearly meant was that I know a lot of things (yes even how to install things, I just don't know everything but that much must be clear when I mentioned the various install systems I was familiar with) but none of it gelled together as my knowledge of Windows does.

Whether superior or not, the fact that Linux (or rather the components of a typical distro) is written by a multitude of different writers (which undoubtedly gives it a number of advantages), means that they all work in different way s which means that they aren't standard in interface terms. The advantage of a consistent interface is that someone can come into a new OS or application from others and be up and running with it fairly rapidly ... maybe they won't become expert quickly but they can become functional and that's a thing of value (I guarantee that on any OS and applications that embrace SAA I can rapidly do things). Windows embraces SAA much better than Linux (as a whole) and that is one its strengths ... Linux is improving in this respect and will (I have few doubts) one day achieve it. It will "be" Windows then and not what the Linux evangelists love ... LOL. You see that's what you lot don't get ... MS is there because of luck, it is there because of marketing, it is there because of wheeler dealing and dodgy tactics but the MAIN reason MS is top dog is the same reason that science is the only true philosophy.

Whether you approve or not, whether you are envious or not Windows is top dog for one primary reason ... it works and it does it bloody well.

You also ignore (whether intentionally or not I do not know) that I repeatedly say that I don't believe that any particular OS is superior, that each has strengths and weaknesses.

Kyu