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Ok, this is kind of old shoe, but let's discuss the Windows usability a bit. I have to endure some amount of XP and 7 on a regular basis, so I have some unders
by Seth_Kriticos 16y ago
Ok, this is kind of old shoe, but let's discuss the Windows usability a bit.
I have to endure some amount of XP and 7 on a regular basis, so I have some understanding on how to work with them (well, mostly how to set up or correct things).
Those that say that Windows 7 is so much better.. well, in some sense. I admittedly has better optics. And it crashes less.
Administrative tasks got more tiresome though, compared to XP you have to wade through more windows to get to a specific configuration point. That gets very irksome if you want to perform some configuration for a dozen PC's. (Enough to make it very repetitive, too little that automation would make much sense, especially considering the abysmal automation tools Windows comes with coughshellcough). Other critical points are software management systems (lack of) and general disability in the usability sector.
Granted, learning to cope with a Linux system is somewhat more challenging, but once you are into it, it's really much less bother to do things, no matter the scale.
Microsoft still has a long way to go just to reach the current status. Maybe they will manage, as they seem to be very apt at keeping the stranglehold on the market.
And I will keep avoiding them as much as I can.
- WalterGR 16y agoEnough to make it very repetitive, too little that automation would make much sense, especially considering the abysmal automation tools Windows comes with cough shell cough Hmm... I've been thinking about switching to Powershell. What do you find abysmal about it?
- Seth_Kriticos 16y agoYou are kidding, right? Powershell just does not conform to the original UNIX sh standards, which is why even console wizards will avoid it. Same reason why tcsh and ksh didn't get traction, and they even have merit to them. Who is the target audience? UNIX command line people certainly aren't. Then who, people that managed to learn VB Scripting host? That's just not how things work.
- WalterGR 16y agoYou are kidding, right? No. Who is the target audience? People who want to utilize its access to hundreds of administration tasks across most (all?) of Microsoft's server products, to automate administration tasks. EDIT to add: Same reason why tcsh and ksh didn't get traction, and they even have merit to them. I can't tell: is the implication here that Powershell doesn't have merit? I'm trying to understand.
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- munchhausen 16y ago> Same reason why tcsh and ksh didn't get traction, and they even have merit to them. In the world of enterprise Unix, ksh is king. It is used even for "serious" applications, not only as the sysadmin's glue of choice (the company where I work at was using, in 2009, a HR payroll application written in ksh. Had they not outsourced accounting to a third party, they would probably still be using it today). Granted, "legacy" Unices are being slowly obsoleted by Linux, but ksh lives on. It would be unthinkable for RHEL or SLES to deprecate ksh and leave it out of the distribution - enterprise customers would probably think this is some kind of a bad joke.
- caf 16y agoksh is king (for writing portable shell scripts) because it has long had a reputation for being the one shell that was available everywhere, and worked the same everywhere.