If you used Windows before, why did you switch or now use Linux more 5083

I moved (briefly) from UNIX to Windows 2.0 (or something like that) for one application because a customer demanded that it run on Windows. It was a royal PITA because in those days Windows dealt with only 16-bit addresses so you were always dealing with handles to extra memory spaces, and these could change in value if your process was suspended and resumed, so you had to find ways to deal with that. You also needed timers to break out of dequeuing from the mouse and keyboard in the main loop so you could dequeue IPC messages. It was one hell of a can of worms, and worked very poorly. But the application did meet specification. However it was way too complicated compared with a very simple program written for the UNIX OS that we normally used.

I also had to use Windows 95 with my first home PC for a while because that is what came with it and UNIX licenses were too expensive. When I discovered Linux (Red Hat Linux 5.0), that was about the end of my Windows useage.

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