The ``my favorite application' issue need never degenerate
into an OS war. There may be historical reasons why people
working under the challenging limits of early dos came up with
some nice features they otherwise might not have thought of.
But there will always be programs written in OS A, with
source code unavailable, no source code at all, etc. with some
features somebody likes that -- as a partical matter -- aint
every going to make its way to OS B.
The standard Unix find comes to mind with its truely arachne
syntax, minimally: find . -name -print filespec to show
some files starting from the current directory that met, filespec.
Our dos locate will do all find does, with far easier switches,
e.g., locate .\filespec
I used to think the history command was wonderful in Unix, e.g.
>!echo
for the last echo command. I was amased and envious to see a dos
guy just hit the up arrow and access the last 20 commands one by
one! (with doskey). Of course, we have this one now in Unix.
Filemanager wise, there are a not of norton commander and/or
windows explorer clones, with an unusually versatile crop of them
made for dos. I like one called file wizard, with instant access to
the command like, marking files for group operations, drag and drop
even between archives and other archives, treated as directories,
``virtual directories'' that contain, say all the files found with
a find command that you can then do group operations on, build in
2 directory compare and reconcile, etc. etc.
Probably not possible to find the same feature in a Linux midnight
commander clone. So what?
I guess my point: If one finds a whole LOT of favorite convenient
applications one cant not replicate reasonably in another OS, one
has a good reason to hang on to access to this OS. But that could
be ANY OS -- this being personal.
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