agillis;440604 Wrote: > In many internet forums a comment like this would start a flame war > between linux and windows zelots. But most users in this forum are not > into flame wars so I don't think that will happen here. > > I have been in technology for years and have found that every operating > system has advantages and disadvantages. There is no one perfect OS. I > use many different OSes. Most of the Windows users you are taking about > are probably running Linux on their router and they don't even know it! > > For a high powered quad core machine like the original poster has I > don't think the OS makes much of a difference. Linux is really useful on > a lower power system like an embedded Atom box with only 1GB of RAM. In > this case you can run Linux without a GUI giving it a distinct advantage > over Windows. > > Of cource Windows has the advantage of an easy to use GUI that many > people are familiar with. This is useful when resolving problems.
These are balanced thoughts. As is clear from the original poster's subsequent comments, he/she is looking for information rather than personal biases, I tried to address that. Unfortunately some people become uncomfortable and intolerant when others' opinions differ from their own. -- Goodsounds ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Goodsounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14201 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65585 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
