I am curiouse... Has anyone who voted Windows ever used an OS other that windows for a significant abount of time ???

I have Used Windows for 2 years, Linux for 3 years, and i use Soaris Unix at university,
so i feel qualified to say that i think Linux is better.

but most people who say windows is better will admit to haveing never learned how to use a *nix OS.
surely their vote is simply adding bias to the poll ?

Dear Friend,

i am a programmer as well as web designer based on chennai, India.
I work both in Windows and Linux(RHE). Still when it comes for Customers' needs we have to go for Windows as most of the R.A.D developer tools available are for Windows, and when it comes to the case of Open souce we'll better go on for Linux.

so it is for us to use Windows.

Seriously, i prefer windows. Having used most OS types extensivley (with the exception of Mac OS) Linux and BSD both have there place however with the exception of the mac OS alterations to BSD this is more a server OS than a desktop so that makes it dificult to use for everyday taks. Linux is an excellent platform for desktops at work and by computer literate people however for the basic user it is far to complex. Linux also has the disadvantage of configuration being made fairley difficult as well as being filled with far to much OSS on a default install, how many Shells and web browsers does one user really need?

Man, I guess I'm in the minority here but wasn't expecting it. I prefer Linux, it's so easy to develop for. Using GTK or QT seems so much more intuitive than Win32's API. Plus your source can be compiled under Mac OS X making it a little more portable. I haven't really developed anything under Mac so I can't say anything about that. I also really like how easy it can be in linux. I can write a perl script and throw it in my /usr/bin folder and I've got my new command. I like the non compile options it offers. Well I guess that's enough for my rant.

Right now I have figured a way to use Visual Studio or Mac's BBEdit to code in Unix environment for clients requiring that. I just Mount my afs unix space using a terminal emulator like SecureCRT and then save my work in the Unix environment. I have the IDE open in one window and the terminal emulator open in another. I code in one and compile remotely in another. That way (especially when I use Visual Studio.Net) I get to see the tutorials that come while you type.

I have set up my computer which uses a GeForce card capable of supporting two monitors so that my IDE is open in one window and the terminal emulator is open in the other. So type in the left monitor, Alt+Tab to set focus to the terminal emulator window and compile in the right monitor. So fast, I'm loving it.

I think i preper Windows!! I like download program from free download web site and i saw most program support windows. i think this is a reason for why people choose window... although Linux is OS that support for open source but i think most people don't interestng that.

I Use GNu/LInux for developing of almost everything and I think that no others os(I have used SunOS, win and Mac too)are good as linux

In some ways yes, in other ways no. The way linux is currently setup it is hard to make applications what I like to call 'rich'. For instance, with cocoa on OSX, any cocoa application can access services easily and cross communicate and share data more or less effortlessly, allowing things to work not only side by side, but in harmony. The plethora of different toolkits, gui thingies, and so on with linux make this much harder.

I agree with MajesticTreeFrog here, linux development is a little difficult since several packages are usually needed to make a basic functioning GUI then distribution can be anightmare if you happen to be using some obscure package or something. Developing in .net doen't used the windows API quite the same as say Visual C++ 6.0 did, it has become more logical and easy to develop apps quickly that intergrate well with each other and the OS. i can't really comment on Mac development.

Rich? If you talk about GUI, yep Linux is not based on the appearance like Mac or WIn, but with Bash scripting you can easily create a script to administrate everything you need, it's not graphic but useful..and then have you ever tried to program a Gui apps under Win or mac?I'm not, but using KDe with Superkaramba you can display everything on the desktop and with perl or python scripting it's possibile to have a very "alternative" and unique desktop

Is that possible with Win?if you use Style Xp yes, but it's not the same...



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