Why I use Windows and not Linux
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Why I use Windows and not Linux
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Re: Why I use Windows and not Linux
#2Interesting argument. Personally, for all the stuff I do, Linux is far superior. Give me Emacs, R and LaTeX working out of the box and available in easy downloads with no spaces in my paths, and I'm happy. I can understand that others may have different perspectives.
That being said, has he tried Emacs? As far as I know with GDB and gcc and flymake, pretty much everything he wants to do is available.
Re: Why I use Windows and not Linux
#3Maybe we should give an "enable up/downvote" cookie when the user clicks through the link and actually sees the article.
I cannot imagine 5 people (currently with 6 points) upvoted this after actually reading it...
Re: Why I use Windows and not Linux
#4Old flamewar, same argument, move along folks.
Re: Why I use Windows and not Linux
#5Makes you realise how it's a clever strategy to make excellent dev tools for a platform. Visual Studio is really one of the best, and developers will go where the tools make it easy for them.
Re: Why I use Windows and not Linux
#6Makes you realise how it's a clever strategy to make excellent dev tools for a platform. Visual Studio is really one of the best, and developers will go where the tools make it easy for them.
Yes, because all the best C programmers use Windows.
Re: Why I use Windows and not Linux
#7I have no idea why I should be interested in whether or not someone uses a particular OS. Especially when that person appears to be an uninformed youth.
I would be much more interested in "Why this government department decided that Linux is a good fit for some situations and what they're doing to migrate" style article. I'd hope that HN would avoid the traditional flame-bait; but perhaps that's optimistic.
Re: Why I use Windows and not Linux
#8I'm porting some of my software to Windows. I haven't used Windows in years. Doing things like opening a DOS console and typing "cd C:\" was like going back in time about 25 years. And then I had to create a Batch script using old BASIC style commands, using REM at the start of comments... It's like Windows is stuck in time, and Microsoft's primary way of making money is by keeping this crusty operating system running, and milking enterprise IT budgets as long as possible.
Re: Why I use Windows and not Linux
#9Old flamewar, same argument, move along folks.
It's just so hard to resist the flame bait. Although I really believe that the author tried to be honest here and simply missed a few things that the platform has to offer and tried to make an argument out of his own failure.
But the naivety to believe that *NIX platforms would exist for a few centuries and that none of the smart people that used them got the idea to write a debugger, is just a little bit too much to take.
Re: Why I use Windows and not Linux
#10I'm porting some of my software to Windows. I haven't used Windows in years. Doing things like opening a DOS console and typing "cd C:\" was like going back in time about 25 years. And then I had to create a Batch script using old BASIC style commands, using REM at the start of comments... It's like Windows is stuck in time, and Microsoft's primary way of making money is by keeping this crusty operating system runnin…
If you're using XP or later then you shouldn't be using DOS batch files you should be using Powershell, which is what MS write all of their own CLI interfaces to work with.