Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : tenser
From : boraxman
Date : Wed Apr 27 2022 22:43:17

 te>  bo> As have I.  And I say this with all due respect, but your style of
 te>  bo> debate is somewhat difficult to digest.  One brings up general ideas
 te>  bo> which impact a majority of people, and you debunk it with a corner ca
 te>  bo> which may affect a few, if any.
 te> 
 te> Perhaps you find my style difficult to digest, and perhaps
 te> it is.  However, the issue I have with your argument is that
 te> you make general assertions that are poorly supported, mostly
 te> through anecdotal evidence and appeals to authority, that are
 te> logically inconsistent, and then use those to make inferences
 te> that do not follow.
 te> 
 te> You also have a tendency to go from one topic to something
 te> tangentially related.  Recall that the genesis of this
 te> discussion was your assertion that you don't want to see
 te> Linux become easier to use because you fear losing something
 te> in return.  My response has always been that I don't see how
 te> there's anything specific to Linux in particular that cannot
 te> be replicated elsewhere (really, if Linux becomes what you
 te> fear, simply move to FreeBSD, etc).  It is unclear to me what
 te> the Unix pipelines and the composibility of tools has to do
 te> with it, and that seems like a non sequitur.  Any really, the
 te> Linux people have no desire to take away your ability to do
 te> the sorts of things you appear to want to do.  It's not going
 te> to happen.  And if it did, you could fork your own distro:
 te> that's how it works.
 te> 

If I recall correctly, this started from a comment that Linux was more configurable, and more amenable to constructing your own workflows and system than Windows.  That the Unix philosophy was based on composition of existing tools, whereas Windows evolved in a paradigm where computing solutions came from application solutions.

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