I'm not sure what this thread is about frankly. It reeks of "ooh, linux is great because its !somethingelse" that used to pervade academia and a lot of the ind

I'm not sure what this thread is about frankly. It reeks of "ooh, linux is great because its !somethingelse" that used to pervade academia and a lot of the industry. Frankly that still pervades but there's finally more substance behind "Linux" as a whole. For a lot of newbies "Linux" was their first experience with a unix-like system, so they either loved it or were made to use it and became familiar with it. Thats not particularly a bad thing but it results in this rampant fanboyism thats kinda annoying to someone who was using other systems beforehand. So yeah, you get "choice" with Linux, but you get it with a bunch of other operating systems too, you just have to do a different amount of work. There are plenty of things that are not easier in Linux, but really its all about tradeoffs.