Davey
wibbled on Friday 25 September 2009 14:16

michael adams wrote:

The same types who are
always banging on about Linux and how wonderful it is, as they sit
there shivering in the middle of winter.

Why do Linux users feel the need to harp on about the fact they use it and
not Windows?

Who could actually give a ****?

I used to work with such a person and whilst he was moaning about how crap
Windows was, I reminded him that he worked in a team that supported
Windows servers and it was as reliable as he would have liked it, he
would've been out of a job. Idiot. He didn't moan about it again.

)

Since you ask, IME the TCO[1] of running a large farm of linux servers is
much lower than the same in MS Windows. Plain text files are much easier to
script than all manner of odd APIs (registry, AD, WETF Exchange does etc).

[1] A term MS likes to use so much.

The only thing Windows has going for it is DFS which is actually quite cool.
The rest can usually be done better, cheaper and more fixably using *nix.

I think the reason linux users bang on so much, is because MS do the same,
via advertising. Linux and BSD users wonder why people would pay money to
do something

Then again, all my previous jobs since 2000 have involved a heavy
committment to linux and a bit of windows.

--
Tim Watts

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