31 Aug
2008
31 Aug
'08
2:53 p.m.
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:37:11PM -0400, Joe Giliberti wrote:
Its just a matter of personal preference.
No. It is also a question of what you can do. My current employer does
things with Linux and Linux based software environments that simply
would not be possible with Windows. And not only in terms of
scalability, put also in terms of being able to adapt the system
specific requirements and make it do things nobody did before. Also
having it scale to _massive_ systems.
And for private environments it is similiar. If all you want is web,
mail, document processing and gaming and you don't care much for
data security and privacy, Windows is probably OK for you.
If you want much more ... Linux (or another UNIX variant) is a much
better choice.
For me, the last Windows version I ran on my own was Windows 3.1, after
that I only touched Windows when somebody paid me for it. And the net
result is still: If you want to get work done, use a sane UNIX variant,
if you want to fight with the OS environment and play, go for Windows.
Regards,
Alex.
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