[mythtv-users] OT: A major difference between Widows and Linux
mythtv at phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk
mythtv at phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk
Thu May 12 09:34:40 UTC 2016
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.
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