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Desktop environments aren't operating systems. And utility? If I were to rank operating systems according to my own subjective assessment of utility, Windows w
by wanda 12y ago
Desktop environments aren't operating systems.
And utility? If I were to rank operating systems according to my own subjective assessment of utility, Windows would be top. Because I develop on .NET to earn a living.
I would still under no conditions argue that Windows is a better operating system than a unix-based OS.
C# is more useful to me than C++, Erlang or Go but that doesn't mean I think C# is better than these languages. The fork is not worse than the knife overall. It's better for picking things up but it's not very good for cutting.
Can't say I'm going to take the words of somebody using a tech preview OS as their daily driver seriously, either.
- scotty79 12y agoIf I don't care about gui I always pick Debian or something derived. No competition there. I have another computer with Linux Mint KDE if Microsoft does something horrible at the end of tech preview. And this tech preview os so far was more stable than Maverics, same Maverics upgraded to Yosemite, and fresh install of Yosemite which I still could use as a form of last resort solution if two my other computes go belly up. If you are windows dev I recommend it even stronger. 10 sec boot and shutdown on almost 4 years old desktop (with SSD though). None of this flashing Start Screen crap.
- scotty79 12y agoHeh. You were sort of right. They just broke it. :-) New build is just horrible. Java doesn't work and they've butchered start menu and task bar. Fortunately they've left by mistake an option to roll back to previous build. Which I promptly used to restore my wonderful Windows 10. Then I just as promptly I disabled automatic updates. Maybe in few months from now I'll try latest Windows 10 build in a VM to see if they backpedaled a bit from the insanity they've served in this last build.