[AssKoala]

Originally Posted by DJMaze

Which Windows user has ever find the recovery tool? And if they did find it, how many successfuly recovered their system?

Actually, plenty, though we're working on empirical evidence here, so it's stupid to dispute.

The biggest issue in Windows is the registry which is the biggest file loaded at boot. Which windows user has ever been able to fix the registry file after it got screwed?

How many Linux users know how to fix /boot or /etc after accidently borking things? The solution is generally a reinstall. Good try, albeit irrelevant.

Each OS has its issues and each has its benefits. You all can't complain about linux nor about windows in the way this thread is talking about since it's just flaming.

Actually, I fail to see how anything I or teknomage have said is flaming (with the exception of tekno's last post which is pretty dumb).

The real issue here is software. If drivers and applications were as easy to install as on Windows then many manufacturers will support Linux just as they do with Windows, but for the moment this is a "no go" since the costs are to high compared to market share and profit.

Aye, funny that I said that in my first response

Another issue is the maze of libraries in Linux which prevents companies to support Linux. You know how much .so files of one library are on your system and that you still can't install rpm/deb files due to version incompatibility.

Yeah, that one is huge. That's worse than the dll hell of the Windows 98 days (hell, its worse than the codec hell that lives on Windows nowadays).

That's why Mac OS X has taken the Windows approach of sticking the damned software in its own folder and duplicating libraries instead of mucking with the entire OS for every piece of software installed.

Windows is not the best system but it has a interface that doesn't change much and when it's changed it still works.

Nothing is the best system, it depends on your application. In the workstation/desktop market, for both performance and stability, Windows is generally considered the best (Mac OS X is considered better for desktops by many, though workstation/graphics people and IT people who don't have their heads up their asses generally hate the platform). Servers are a different story (though the netcraft top uptimes are owned by FreeBSD and Windows 2000) and are more application dependent.

Benchmarks and theory back up performance on the workstation front, the server front is hit or miss: you can find a set of benchmarks to prove whatever side you're on.

Windows also has issues, why else did they create DirectX ?

What? That makes no sense. Why did they create SDL? Why did they create X-Windows? Hell, why did they create RPC?

Thanks to XFree Linux has the same look and feel as windows but way more powerfull then the Windows Explorer. The only issue is the lack of good event queue and multi-threading support.

That's debateable, though I won't deny that KDE has made a great system, X-Windows in and of itself isn't exactly the greatest thing since sliced bread.

80% of all computer users can't work with Linux since they grew up with Windows since 3.11 so if we grew up with Linux the world would be different but not better or worse.
just different...

That actually has to be most intelligent thing I've ever read in a Linux vs. Windows offtopic discussion. I definitely have quite the respect for you after that post of yours and that line