Linux & Windows

[philip.j.fry]

Originally Posted by Defiant

A good argument for a linux user yes but not for a windows user. Unless you know something Linux can do that windows can't ?

Well, quite a few of the *nix power tools. Imagine if you want to use things like GCC but have the ease of use of Windows, that's why people run things like this .

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by philip.j.fry

Well, quite a few of the *nix power tools. Imagine if you want to use things like GCC but have the ease of use of Windows, that's why people run things like this .

Are there no native C compilers for windows? I'm sure there is, not sure about the other things GCC will compile.

[philip.j.fry]

Originally Posted by Bifta

Are there no native C compilers for windows? I'm sure there is, not sure about the other things GCC will compile.

djpp (I think that's it) is a port of GCC for windows but that was just one example. I think that you are missing the point here, that is there are some things that you can do on a *nix system better than on windows and vice versa, saying that windows does everything a *nix system does and does it better is an extremely naive comment. What matters most is that you choose the system that benefits you the most, and having access to both (or more) systems simultaneously really does give you the maximum benefit.

At the end of the day, I wouldn't want everyone to suddenly switch to Linux. because all that would mean is that Linux would be a windows clone, thus defeating an point of moving away from windows. What I want to see more of is cross-platform standards being used to the full extent, like wxWindows, XML based standards, Java etc so that it doesn't matter which operating system was used and information could still be shared. Imagine what would happen if tcp/ip was only supported by one os.