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> operating systems are just operating systems There is zero information in your epiphany. You can say this about anything and it will have as little meaning.

> operating systems are just operating systems There is zero information in your epiphany. You can say this about anything and it will have as little meaning. Cars are just cars. Movies are just movies. The only thing that has any value is the "different and not better" and that involves a subjective "better" which doesn't apply uniformly across people. Ultimately useful measures can be based on time and money, for example productivity, deploy speed, licensing expenses, etc. Personally I hate the click and point everything UI in windows and prefer a sane bash like terminal with familiar unix tools, but that's entirely subjective.

sdegutis 13y ago
> There is zero information in your epiphany. You can say this about anything and it will have as little meaning. Cars are just cars. Movies are just movies. The only thing that has any value is the "different and not better" and that involves a subjective "better" which doesn't apply uniformly across people. Ultimately useful measures can be based on time and money, for example productivity, deploy speed, licensing expenses, etc. I thought my meaning was clear. Maybe it's not to you, but it sounds like you did understand it, and just don't agree with how I presented it. And that's fine. > Personally I hate the click and point everything UI in windows and prefer a sane bash like terminal with familiar unix tools, but that's entirely subjective. I went from Windows to Linux for the WMs, and stayed for the CLI. Then I went to Mac OS X and stayed for the trackpad. Then I went to emacs and stayed for the keyboard. Now I'm using Windows 8 and am considering staying for the beauty. Honestly, I don't put much stock even in my own subjective opinions anymore, since they change by the month.
- leobelle 13y ago
  > Honestly, I don't put much stock even in my own subjective opinions anymore, since they change by the month. Mine too. Weird how that works. Having a super strong opinion one day and experiencing a complete reversal sometime later.
FireBeyond 13y ago
There's about the same information in the parent comment, "StackOverflow runs on Windows, really?" - like the premise is absurd, but with no reasoning made.

sdegutis 13y ago

> There is zero information in your epiphany. You can say this about anything and it will have as little meaning. Cars are just cars. Movies are just movies. The only thing that has any value is the "different and not better" and that involves a subjective "better" which doesn't apply uniformly across people. Ultimately useful measures can be based on time and money, for example productivity, deploy speed, licensing expenses, etc. I thought my meaning was clear. Maybe it's not to you, but it sounds like you did understand it, and just don't agree with how I presented it. And that's fine. > Personally I hate the click and point everything UI in windows and prefer a sane bash like terminal with familiar unix tools, but that's entirely subjective. I went from Windows to Linux for the WMs, and stayed for the CLI. Then I went to Mac OS X and stayed for the trackpad. Then I went to emacs and stayed for the keyboard. Now I'm using Windows 8 and am considering staying for the beauty. Honestly, I don't put much stock even in my own subjective opinions anymore, since they change by the month.

leobelle 13y ago
> Honestly, I don't put much stock even in my own subjective opinions anymore, since they change by the month. Mine too. Weird how that works. Having a super strong opinion one day and experiencing a complete reversal sometime later.

FireBeyond 13y ago

There's about the same information in the parent comment, "StackOverflow runs on Windows, really?" - like the premise is absurd, but with no reasoning made.