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What's the advantage of Windows over Unix? Is it just preference for you?

by bingohbangoh 4y ago

bitwize 4y ago
Windows is much more end-user-focused than Unix. This was even true in the 3.x days. I played around with a late-90s Solaris 2.x image recently and its usability was garbage compared to Windows 3.x, let alone 9x or NT 4. Plus, the NT kernel is just a much better design than Unix. Multithreading, dynamic linking, fine-grained access control, and async I/O are baked into the NT design, not bolted on as afterthoughts.
- GekkePrutser 4y ago
  I thought when I studied in 1994 that HP's VUE was way better than Windows 3.x which was the going Windows at the time. W95 Chicago kinda brought it on par in terms of GUI. Obviously not in terms of OS. It was quite saddening when I started my first job in 2000. And got.. a Win 3.11 desktop. The company I worked for had it tuned so well they never moved to 95. If I logged into another office it would basically download the whole system image to that office XD. Very weird design choice.
- zabzonk 4y ago
  > Plus, the NT kernel is just a much better design than Unix. Let's no go overboard here - both OSs have their good and bad points > Multithreading In both, better in Windows, IMHO, but still. > dynamic linking Once again, in both. Though I am not a fan of either. > fine-grained access control I have never understood the Windows security model (programming Windows since the mid 1980s) and I sincerely doubt that anyone else has. The Linux/Unix model has at least the benefit of simplicity. Me: Like both - both are flawed. Edit: I am referring to Linux/Unix now, not then.
zabzonk 4y ago
I prefer both the Windows user experience/GUI and the programming API (thread rather than process based, drag and drop being built in, lots of stuff like that), great documentation, Visual C++ and so on. Mind you, I still use Linux.

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What's the advantage of Windows over Unix? Is it just preference for you?

by bingohbangoh 4y ago

What's the advantage of Windows over Unix? Is it just preference for you?

bitwize 4y ago
Windows is much more end-user-focused than Unix. This was even true in the 3.x days. I played around with a late-90s Solaris 2.x image recently and its usability was garbage compared to Windows 3.x, let alone 9x or NT 4. Plus, the NT kernel is just a much better design than Unix. Multithreading, dynamic linking, fine-grained access control, and async I/O are baked into the NT design, not bolted on as afterthoughts.
- GekkePrutser 4y ago
  I thought when I studied in 1994 that HP's VUE was way better than Windows 3.x which was the going Windows at the time. W95 Chicago kinda brought it on par in terms of GUI. Obviously not in terms of OS. It was quite saddening when I started my first job in 2000. And got.. a Win 3.11 desktop. The company I worked for had it tuned so well they never moved to 95. If I logged into another office it would basically download the whole system image to that office XD. Very weird design choice.
- zabzonk 4y ago
  > Plus, the NT kernel is just a much better design than Unix. Let's no go overboard here - both OSs have their good and bad points > Multithreading In both, better in Windows, IMHO, but still. > dynamic linking Once again, in both. Though I am not a fan of either. > fine-grained access control I have never understood the Windows security model (programming Windows since the mid 1980s) and I sincerely doubt that anyone else has. The Linux/Unix model has at least the benefit of simplicity. Me: Like both - both are flawed. Edit: I am referring to Linux/Unix now, not then.
zabzonk 4y ago
I prefer both the Windows user experience/GUI and the programming API (thread rather than process based, drag and drop being built in, lots of stuff like that), great documentation, Visual C++ and so on. Mind you, I still use Linux.