Is Linux or Windows Easier To Install?

Mark Cappel writes: "Joe Barr, a LinuxWorld.com columnist, compares Linux and Windows installations. He expected Windows to be faster and easier since Microsoft has been at it for 21 years. (DOS 1.0 was released 21 years ago today.) It turns out Red Hat is quicker and less manually intensive."

Comments

Re:Sad news ... Stephen King dead at 54

[shades66]

is it me or has Stephen King died a lot recently?

Re:Doesn't Matter

[_Knots]

Why play MineSweeper though WINE? Well, aside from the fact that we can. If it's MineSweeper you want, there are several native versions that will be faster, look better, and most probably match your desktop theme(s). ^_~

As for en masse adoption, ::shrugs:: It works for me. And at least as far as my system goes, it's free (as in beer, and speech). It works for hundreds of thousands, if not millions others, too. Choice and competition is *good*. Homogeneous *anything* other than, perhaps, protocols (at least we agree, mostly, on IP) - even there there's a huge amount of wiggle room (file transfers over HTTP, FTP, raw streams, SSH/SCP, GOPHER, etc, etc, for example). The internet derives its power from the comonality of *one layer* of the protocol stack and the fact that everything else can be twiddled at will without damaging the network. Who cares if a node is Linux, BSD, Windows, whatever, as long as it behaves.

--Knots;