Linux and Windows wich do you prefer?

JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
edited March 2004 in Science & Tech
well, i am becoming a huge linux fan, i am starting to learn alot about this os, i already know almost all there is to know about windows. i just want to know what you prefer and why.

in other words. what are the drawbacks of both OS's?

plz. NO FLAMING!! everyone is entitled to there own opinion, wether you disagree with them or not.

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    they're both the same. You can do your stuff many different ways. But they all get you to the same place. Some things are easier to do than others in different OSes.. But think about this: If you can do fill in the blank on an athlon xp 2800+ with 512mb of ram and a video card and a sound card and whatever, in one OS, then you can do it on the other too. There's nothing that simply CAN'T BE DONE on one OS or the other. I'm speaking about end results here. Of course, it may be needlessly complicated on one platform or the other, or it can be faster on one platform or the other, or it can be bought in a box on one platform but have to be custom written on the other, etc. But the point is, it's a computer. And it can do stuff. It can do the same stuff in unix that it can do in windows.

    I prefer unix for servers. I prefer windows for desktops. But you can use unix for desktops and windows for servers too ... See my point?
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    i love linux. it's a lot of fun to tinker with and i feel like it can do everything windows can. if it only had all the same killer apps that windows does, I'm talking about the macromedia apps, the adobe apps, the 3D apps, and of course, MS Office, which would never get ported unless linux had like 50% market share to begin with because only then will MS see it would be profitable to do so.

    windows is easy and with 2000 and xp, finally reliable, as in it doesn't crash every ten minutes anymore. I like using both.
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited March 2004
    Omg!................................................teh Fat Kid!!!
  • -Ben-Ben
    edited March 2004
    Yoink just pinched that fat kid ;)

    Well i'm pretty much with prime here, you can pretty much do anything you want for each OS apart from a couple of programs or API's which are OS dependent.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Linux is undoubtedly the king of servers, though the Win2k3 platform has made leaps and bounds in progress, it isn't there yet. Linux is.

    For the desktop? Windows2k/XP series. There are some things you just can't do on Linux, or are done so poorly that it's better to do on Windows.
  • GunnyGunny
    edited March 2004
    Once again, Prime has nailed the hit on the head, simply a matter of preference.
    Windows has the edge simply because so much is available for it, and the fact that it is easier for the average user. Linux, while great for some of us, just doesn't fit into the "plug and play" generation
  • godzilla525godzilla525 Western Pennsylvania Member
    edited March 2004
    Right now I have a Lindows Live CD in my Windows XP laptop... sometimes I mess with Knoppix, too.

    I want to go full Linux at some point just to get out of paying $300+ for a Microsoft OS and twice that or higher for MS application software. I don't need to purchase/use/maintain a backhoe when a shovel will do a quicker job (Thinking of Office XP/Visual Studio .NET vs. anything else...).

    Lindows just annoyed me a couple minutes ago... even though DHCP works and Samba can find my drives on my Windows box (I can't believe it actually works!), it annoys me with a separate login box for every file and folder on the drive that I have to cancel out of--completely unnecessary since I use simple file sharing on the Windows box. That really gets tedious if you have 2,500 mp3 files in the folder you just opened...

    ...also playback over the network is broken... I have to park a copy on the desktop and use that...

    I'm sure there's a config file for this buried somewhere, but I can't be arsed to go look for it. Since I'm running from CD I can't change this anyway. :)

    I'd have to agree that Linux isn't a drop-in replacement for MS Windows just yet, but when it is I'd switch almost immediately.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited March 2004
    I like Lindows. ;D (J/K. I've never used it)
  • res0r9lmres0r9lm Florida
    edited March 2004
    I don't use windows at all but sure would like to see a native shockwave player. Presenly I am using crossover plugin not bad but could be better
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