>Mostly the fact that people already know it and are too lazy to learn anything else. But that's hardly a carrot when it comes to learning CS/Programming. Whet

>Mostly the fact that people already know it and are too lazy to learn anything else. But that's hardly a carrot when it comes to learning CS/Programming. Whether you were to learn on Windows or *NIX it takes a lot of non-intuitive steps too get going. When I started to learn python I used notepad on Windows and ran it on the command line, I soon switched to Linux and wrote my scripts in gedit and ran the programs on the command line. The learning curve was about the same. It seems to me that a lot of the skills you learn on Linux when it comes to programming can be applied to windows (you just have to learn their GUI), but methods learned in windows generally can't be applied to other OSs.