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Why are unix-alike OS better than eg Windows?
| Why have you made 4 threads?
| unix is like an old set of power tools with weird quirks, and windows is like a forklift with the fork missing. neither is ideal for building a house, but you'll get a lot more done with the former.
the biggest benefits modern open unix-alikes have over proprietary systems, though, is greater transparency, continuity, and consistency. linux, for example, has people on the team now who've been there since the beginning, know the thing inside-out, and have hard guidelines on what is
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and isn't ok, so they can maintain code quality. and the project is structured hierarchically, meaning, whatever level a newcomer is at, there's always somebody one-level higher who's informed enough to teach and vet. couple that with the newcomers having free access to the whole kernel, and so the ability to learn freely, and you get a stable, coherent base for the world's largest software project
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windows, by contrast, has no consistent vision. the entire thing is "re-imagined" every time there's a change in management, and those managers have no idea how the internals of the OS actually work, so they make demands that are impossible or stupid or both. couple that with a high employee turnover rate without documentation of what the previous generation did and you get the modern behemoth that is microsoft windows, where every iteration has reinvented the wheel
| using higher-level abstractions, so that the things further and further down are buried and forgotten, causing instability, bugs, and security flaws. windows development these days requires as much praying for things to work as anything else, hitting the button 10 times until the race conditions in the build system resolve in your favour
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| And which one is the best for a desktop if ur used to windows xp