Windows vs. Linux

keyboardmaster · 01-27-2006, 12:43 PM

Which software would you prefere. Windows XP or Linux. Many people use Windows software. But do you know that linux is supiorer to Windows software. Its more stable and would less likely crash compared to windows which has that possibility. Its great software. The only thing is its hard to operate. Its alittle complicated software to run and understand. What do you think. -Josh (keyboardmaster).

bee7le · 01-27-2006, 03:36 PM

Linux is hands-down, a much more stable platform than Windows and is why I use it on most of my quiet servers (email, dns, backup). With that said, Linux falls flat when it comes to an end user desktop OS in the real world. Unreliable support and the lack of end-user familiarity keeps Linux from ever gaining a decent place in the market. As a software developer, I go where the money goes - and with over 80% of the market, I'm going with Windows when developing software for clients (regardless of it's instability).

Macs are great for design and *nix are great for stability, but Windows puts food on my table. All hail King Gates!

w.e.g. · 01-27-2006, 04:00 PM

Bee7le is right about the money being in windows environments. but when it comes to developing the software i would use a unix machine to do that development work for the windows environment, or somethign like cygwin which is a command shell for windows. there is however a lot of support for linux machines, but its unconventional, mostly through other users. and there is a huge problem with linux being different in almost every distrib. Linux will never take over the microsoft market share, but it will keep going strong and stay put in its niche

KeepingTheFaith · 01-27-2006, 04:24 PM

bee7le took the words right out of my mouth, I agree with both w.e.g. & bee7le.

christian_777 · 01-27-2006, 06:11 PM

No doubt about it, Linux is obviously more stable, has better software, etc. But, I think that since Linux is a more "newer" software, I'm going to wait a while, and gradually let it improve, before I download it again. I got it once, and made the mistake of clearing ALL the partitions while installing it, getting rid of Windows. So, I'm going to wait a few more months before I get it.

EaglesWings4031 · 01-27-2006, 11:18 PM

Bee7le knows what he's talking about. All my CS projects are *nix based, although I often am writing from Windows using SSH and such.

I dual boot my system, but what I wanna do is get a slightly less capable box, and get a monitor/input chooser so I can run both in parallel while developing.

Giga Hertz · 01-29-2006, 12:41 AM

HUZZAH! My kinda discussion!

I prefer Linux Debian although I can't do all the things on it that I'd like to (Play games on it for one). But if Debian could do almost everything Windows could (Like play games) I'd boot into it more often.

Sweet Pea · 01-29-2006, 05:44 AM

Windows has always served me well.

Giga Hertz · 01-30-2006, 05:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Sweet Pea

Windows has always served me well.

Just out of curiousity, have you tried out any Linux OSs at all?

01-27-2006, 12:43 PM	#1
keyboardmaster keyboardmaster Edit Disciple	Windows vs. Linux Which software would you prefere. Windows XP or Linux. Many people use Windows software. But do you know that linux is supiorer to Windows software. Its more stable and would less likely crash compared to windows which has that possibility. Its great software. The only thing is its hard to operate. Its alittle complicated software to run and understand. What do you think. -Josh (keyboardmaster).
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01-27-2006, 03:36 PM	#2
bee7le bee7le Edit Apostle	Linux is hands-down, a much more stable platform than Windows and is why I use it on most of my quiet servers (email, dns, backup). With that said, Linux falls flat when it comes to an end user desktop OS in the real world. Unreliable support and the lack of end-user familiarity keeps Linux from ever gaining a decent place in the market. As a software developer, I go where the money goes - and with over 80% of the market, I'm going with Windows when developing software for clients (regardless of it's instability). Macs are great for design and *nix are great for stability, but Windows puts food on my table. All hail King Gates!
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01-27-2006, 04:00 PM	#3
w.e.g. w.e.g. Edit Prophet/Prophetess	Bee7le is right about the money being in windows environments. but when it comes to developing the software i would use a unix machine to do that development work for the windows environment, or somethign like cygwin which is a command shell for windows. there is however a lot of support for linux machines, but its unconventional, mostly through other users. and there is a huge problem with linux being different in almost every distrib. Linux will never take over the microsoft market share, but it will keep going strong and stay put in its niche __________________ There is no luck only faith. CAP'N WILLY
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01-27-2006, 04:24 PM	#4
KeepingTheFaith KeepingTheFaith Edit Prophet/Prophetess	bee7le took the words right out of my mouth, I agree with both w.e.g. & bee7le. __________________ "I want to know how God thinks... Everything else is a detail." -Albert Einstein
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01-27-2006, 06:11 PM	#5
christian_777 christian_777 Edit Evangelist/Missionary	No doubt about it, Linux is obviously more stable, has better software, etc. But, I think that since Linux is a more "newer" software, I'm going to wait a while, and gradually let it improve, before I download it again. I got it once, and made the mistake of clearing ALL the partitions while installing it, getting rid of Windows. So, I'm going to wait a few more months before I get it.
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01-27-2006, 11:18 PM	#6
EaglesWings4031 EaglesWings4031 Edit Disciple	Bee7le knows what he's talking about. All my CS projects are *nix based, although I often am writing from Windows using SSH and such. I dual boot my system, but what I wanna do is get a slightly less capable box, and get a monitor/input chooser so I can run both in parallel while developing.
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01-29-2006, 12:41 AM	#7
Giga Hertz Giga Hertz can't think of any thing creative here. Edit Prophet/Prophetess	HUZZAH! My kinda discussion! I prefer Linux Debian although I can't do all the things on it that I'd like to (Play games on it for one). But if Debian could do almost everything Windows could (Like play games) I'd boot into it more often. __________________ A life without Christ is a life that is never fixed.
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01-29-2006, 05:44 AM	#8
Sweet Pea Sweet Pea Edit Apostle	Windows has always served me well. __________________ ~Kerine~ God does NOT make mistakes.
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