RE: Nothing annoys me quite like linux and using OSS tools
January 22, 2015 at 3:35 am
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2015 at 3:37 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(January 21, 2015 at 8:34 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: EDIT: I guess I'm trying to fathom the why of linux. Because it seems more reasonable to have a singular core kernel that productivity software like the LAMP stack can target so it's universal across distros.
You mean why people use Linux? Not everyone has the same needs. For me Windows is like computing in porridge. Windows just takes longer to load up, made worse because of the virus checker and malware checkers. I've compiled my code for Windows in the past and it uses up several times more memory than when I run it on Linux (which is where I normally run it). This was just vanilla C++. Linux is based on Unix which was designed as a multi-user system so Linux has great features for logging on remotely, checking what's going on etc. Even for booting up in the morning to browse the web I will still boot into Linux because it's faster and everything runs more quickly.
You get more choice with Linux, which is also why you have so many distros.
