Tracy R Reed wrote:
So is Apache now crashing your Linux kernel or is Linux now as highly
reliable for you as it has been for the rest of us all these years? :)
I actually suspect the difference is how bedded in your knowledge of the
systems is. If you work with Windows a bunch, you get used to the
services that Windows supplies and the mechanisms Windows uses to do
things, and you don't try to step outside that. For example, you don't
ask questions like "what's the command-line option to do XYZ" when XYZ
is something easily accessible via APIs or COM or some such.
If you work with Linux a bunch, you don't miss the the things that
Windows supplies, and you do things in a different way, like parsing
files and the output of programs to get information, and forking off
programs that print out system information instead of invoking system calls.
I mean, I recently saw a discussion complaining that Windows doesn't
natively support postscript output to printers. But to my mind that's
backwards, in the sense that if I have a program that does graphics, I
don't want to learn and translate that output to a brand new programming
language just to print it (DisplayPostscript notwithstanding). Windows
uses the same routines to draw on paper as it does to draw on the
screen. So a Linux user complaining about Windows not natively
supporting postscript is as strange as a Windows user complaining that
Linux needs you to pipe your print job into /bin/lpr instead of opening
a device.
There's a whole bunch of stuff that Windows does for the programmer that
Linux doesn't (and indeed can't) do. There's a bunch of system-level
stuff that Linux does better than Windows, due to the code being
available and thus ported to bunches of uncommon (relatively speaking)
platforms, etc. They both have their place. I wouldn't want to have to
learn to deploy and remotely administer Windows to thousands of machines
worldwide.
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