On 14-09-22 08:23 AM, Dimitar Zhekov wrote:
On 22.9.2014 г. 08:46, Thomas Martitz wrote:
[snip] Seriously, I can understand that systemd is controversial, but not to the extend to abandon *Unix* altogether. There are many many ways to avoid systemd without going Windows, for example using a distro that doesn't use systemd (Gentoo, Slackware, etc) or one of the BSDs.
I could not care less for being controversial - it's *broken* for me.
If I'm going to distro-hop, why not Windows? A working desktop, if nothing else.
In no particular order, off the top of my head...
- Sandboxing - Windows Store - .NET - Boxes - Inaccessible source code - Blue screens - Terrible console and CLI tools - Malware, spamware, bloatware, viruses - Windows Updates, Genuine Advantage, phone home, etc. - Price and the Microsoft Tax - Inferior development tools - Terrible platform APIs (Win32 API, DDK, COM, etc) - Inferior performance - Broken and annoying security model - No special files (pty,lo,etc) - No unified file system hierarchy - No package management - Little to no POSIX or other standards support - etc...
That being said, if you cram enough FOSS onto Windows it can be made nearly usable, and also Linux usually runs great in a virtual machine :)
Cheers, Matthew Brush