Hi,
> Thanks for stealing my words. The main problem with
> linux is that it tries to dictate how things should be
> done instead of asking how things are wanted to be
> done.
I normally don't indulge myself in threads such as these, but what you just
said is so absurd, I had to say something.
The person who introduced me to *nix succinctly defined the difference
between the *nix philosophy and the MS philosophy about Operating Systems.
In the MS world view, MS ^brings forth standards^ (in other words dictates to
users) how things should be done. Don't get me started on how non-standard
their standards are.
Anyways, the attitude is: These are the tools you have, and this is what the
tool does. Use this (and only this) method to achieve a certain task (think -
file associations based on file extensions, lack of scriptablity,
aggressively hiding what happens under the hood ie: no "ps -ax"..etc). This
attitude IMHO is constricting.
In the *nix world, the attitude is: These are your tools, they do such and
such *specific*, *small* thing (think, cat, cut, paste, tr, tail, grep
...etc), use them as you will. Build new tools using these tools. In short:
Small is Beautiful. The pipe, the concept of 'everything is a file', the
concept of redirection, stdin, stdout ...etc stem from this philosophy. This
attitude of giving the user complete control and flexibility (even to the
extent that he may harm himself - think in terms of "rm -f foo *") IMHO is
very liberating.
Put some thought into it, give it a chance, I assure you would feel
liberated.
I'd quit using linux the day it limits my options.
Regards
Steve
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