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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."
It sort of reminds me of something ... I'm a huge Linux fan, but I also use windows. (Often tagged, albeit incorrectly, as a 'Microsoft Hater'). Anyhow, my point... what happens when someone open sources windows? Or, more specifically, comes up with an Open Source Windows clone?
They are working on it.
As a corporation, Microsoft's primary focus is profit. This means that being an 'effective OS' will take a backseat to profit. This doesn't mean it's impossible to do both, but I'm sure that most people here will agree that Microsoft hasn't accomplished both as of yet.
Ok, fine, UNIX is great, Windows sucks, stop preaching to the bloody choir.
Okay, I'll grant you that Linux plays hypothetical, nonexistant, imaginary games better than Windows.
Right, and the imaginary, nonexistent games would run great too right!