If you used Windows before, why did you switch or now use Linux more 5087

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:53:41 +0200, Michael Heiming staggered into the Black Sun and said:

I think you meant "After you run Windows Update, you typically have to reboot for changes that Windows Update made to take effect." This is at least partially because under Windows, you can't unlink() a file that any process has open. So if some always-running process uses system library CRUD123.DLL, and Windows Update wants to remove CRUD123.DLL and replace it with CRUD124.DLL, the old file must be removed during the boot sequence. This is less than elegant, naturally.

True. Since Windows has a lot of de facto standards in place for how stuff is supposed to behave, and config information is supposed to be dumped into the Registry, there could've been a good, automatic package management system for Windows a long time ago. I guess they didn't do that because A) most people installed software from physical media well into the late 1990s B) it would've required large software vendors to get together and decide on a good, less-than-easily-crackable way to push updates of payware to people.

For the OP, I got into Linux in 1999 because it was the easiest-best way for me to try to replicate the gcc-vi-make things I was using on Solaris on my home x86. It was also a fun system to explore, because absolutely everything was documented or at least had C-buttembly code available somewhere. (Linus himself said that it's all about the fun!) Virtual desktops, the ability to read and write HFS disks from an x86, and the sheer customizability of KDE were also really useful features at some points.

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