[mythtv-users] OT: A major difference between Widows and Linux

[mythtv at phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk]

Quoting Damian <myth at surr.co.uk>:

> Hi All,
> In Linux, if pretty much anything goes wrong, the user needs to  
> enter some commands into the terminal in order to get to the bottom  
> of the problem.
> In Windows, no matter what goes wrong, there is almost never a  
> 'need' to go to the command line.

My phone runs on Linux (with Android as the OS) and there is no terminal.

Windows was built by a massive team under the direction of a marketing  
department with users as the focus.

Linux was built by a smaller team of geeks with no direction whatsoever.

The result is that Windows will never let you fix a problem unless  
someone has written a GUI to do so meaning it is quite inflexible in  
what you can do. Linux is much more flexible but in some cases you are  
going to be the one to create the fix.

There is a place in the world for both, I use Windows at work (not out  
of choice but to make the IT department happy, Exchange and project  
management using Excel!) but I can't imagine swapping my MythTV setup  
(and other stuff that runs on the computer in the garage) to Windows.  
I couldn't justify the license fees for one thing. Or the Exploit  
Wednesday downtime. Or the hardware upgrades (my Win desktop no longer  
supports Minecraft because the graphics card driver from Intel has  
dropped features going from Win7 to Win10.

Cheers,
Tim.