What Differentiates Linux from Windows?

tail.man sent in a Linux Insider piece about the difference between Linux and Windows. Quoting the synopsis "So, what's really the difference between a Unix variant like Linux and any Windows OS? It's that Microsoft reacts to marketing pressure to make design decisions favoring running a few processes faster but then finds itself forced first to layer in backward compatibility and then to engage in a patch-and-kludge upgrade process until the code becomes so bloated, slow and unreliable that wholesale replacement is again called for."

Comments

Re:It's simple.

[Dylan_t_p]

yea! The only drivers I ever have to install are the nvidia video drivers linux. For the most part has all my drivers and the only reason for the nvidia drivers is so I can have gl support, otherwise I could just use it out of the box without the installation of drivers.

ReactOS is an open source windows clone

[MichaelCrawford]

ReactOS aims to be binary-compatible with Windows both for applications and device drivers.

It's still in development, but you can boot it and run some programs on it already.