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

[Simon Hobson]

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

> A fundamental difference between Windows and Linux

Couldn't you have raised a less contentious topic like politics or religion :D

> it seems to me, is ...
> 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.

Go back a year or three and it's more like :
In Linux, everything is possible (even if a bit arcane and tricky to configure), while in Windows the simple is easy and the difficult is impossible (ie if there's no GUI button to click).
In Linux, when something goes wrong, it'll be isolated to something that's visible and fixable, while in Windows it's often easiest to just re-install the OS.

On both, times they are a changin'

With SystemD, Linux is rapidly moving over to the Windows ground of big binary blobs of obfuscated functionality and many unrelated functions rolled up into the one black box - with restricted configurability and obfuscated logs that need a special program to access. Windows on the other hand, is moving the other way, with PowerShell and even Bash now !

As someone else put it, debugging with SystemD is like fault finding on electronics with nowhere to stick the voltmeter.

It was often said long ago that "DOS is like Unix with the useful stuff taken out" - with PowerShell and Bash, they're finally fixing that. A few decades late, but ...