You obviously have never been involved with manufacturing processes. It is COMPLETELY impossible to craft a physical object that is 'perfect' for ANY intents and purposes. There is NO baseball bat on this planet has 'perfect' form/dimensions. Even highly refined processes (ball bearings for example) are actually FAR from 'perfect' (measured in ball bearing tolerances).
It actually brings to mind discussion awhile back that it was being considered to move the manufacture of ball bearings to deep space (for really small bearings with really tight tolerances) so that they could be more 'round'. On Earth the 'roundness' is affected by the gravity of the planet during manufacture. Of course.. even bearings made by some super process in Deep Space would still not be 'perfect'. They'd just be measured to a new standard...
(I think people tend to space off how tolerant they actually are about imperfections in physical things.)
You must be kidding? You don't think Win can do ANYTHING better than Linux? Sidestepping your 'critical app' (which is purely based on what's important to each individual user)... Let me try for three:
1) Battlefield 1942 (let's just say.. games in general otherwise I could go on all day here)
2) Browse/use Windows network shares (possible with Linux.. but, definitely not as easy/well)
3) Installing new hardware or the OS... both are easier with Win (I'm referring to XP here...)
Those, I think, are valid examples. With that said, however.. there are lots of things that Linux does better. The only point I'm trying to make is: Don't let prejudice blind you to the *best tool* for the job at hand.
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You obviously have never been involved with manufacturing processes. It is COMPLETELY impossible to craft a physical object that is 'perfect' for ANY intents and purposes. There is NO baseball bat on this planet has 'perfect' form/dimensions. Even highly refined processes (ball bearings for example) are actually FAR from 'perfect' (measured in ball bearing tolerances). It actually brings to mind discussion awhile back that it was being considered to move the manufacture of ball bearings to deep space (for really small bearings with really tight tolerances) so that they could be more 'round'. On Earth the 'roundness' is affected by the gravity of the planet during manufacture. Of course.. even bearings made by some super process in Deep Space would still not be 'perfect'. They'd just be measured to a new standard... (I think people tend to space off how tolerant they actually are about imperfections in physical things.)
You must be kidding? You don't think Win can do ANYTHING better than Linux? Sidestepping your 'critical app' (which is purely based on what's important to each individual user)... Let me try for three:
1) Battlefield 1942 (let's just say.. games in general otherwise I could go on all day here)
2) Browse/use Windows network shares (possible with Linux.. but, definitely not as easy/well)
3) Installing new hardware or the OS... both are easier with Win (I'm referring to XP here...)
Those, I think, are valid examples. With that said, however.. there are lots of things that Linux does better. The only point I'm trying to make is: Don't let prejudice blind you to the *best tool* for the job at hand.