Dan Duskin said:
While UNIX users love to say it's faster... test after test continues to show that windows is faster (OMG, so shocking! 1960's technology versus OS/2-NT technology from the late 80's and vitually completely rewritten using technologies from VMS, BeOS, and other, and it's called WINDOWS!).
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Come on Dan, really, cars were invented quite some time ago, but due to constant improvements you now get cars that can do 0-60M/h in under 3 seconds. The unix of today (depending on which flavour you're talking about) is greatly improved over the original concepts.
So after enough of those benchmarks debunked, they shut up...
This will vary from case to case, especially if you're talking about Linux. For instance you have the choice of re-compiling the kernel with the barest set of features required for a given job, that will SPANK a Windows "monolithic" kernel. Of course it's only good for one particular job, but that's the point of it!
Even on a non-open source system you can "tune" the kernel more than you can with windows. Again that will bias it a certain way, making it better at some things and worse at others.
The point is Windows only release one kernel (well two, workstation and server) and that has to be a jack of all trades, that kills performance, fact.
..now they claim it's more stable. Well... yes, and no... UNIX can be built with literally nothing installed, or everything installed (THE most bloated OS on earth! i.e., virtually every poplular linux release, and OS X). If you really love clean and feature-free unix, fine... but it has no use today as a DAW... The average Linux or OS X is far less stable than a clean install of windows. What you want already exists... It runs on Linux, and only the DAW software is installed... Can you guess what it's called?
When you say the "average" Linux or OS X is far less stable, what is "average" Linux? The point of it is that it exists in so many different permutations, there is no average linux!
And what use is a clean install of windows? :twisted: As soon as you've installed something it's no longer clean is it? Once you start using windows and expanding the registry, it just starts to get slower, what a system. The Registry was invented by Microsoft as a work-around for a problem in early pre-NT days. That work-around still exists today to help slow things down, great! :roll:
I'm not saying that *NIX software doesn’t crash, or can't be unstable, of course it can, especially if you use the of the more bleeding edge distro's that are out there. But there are also the extremely stable work horses Distro's that just do what they do, day in day out. It just seems to me that you have an extremely anti-*NIX outlook, and I can't understand why particularly.
After extensive use of both Windows and Linux (currently Gentoo mostly) I find pro's and cons for both systems, but being a slightly more experienced user I find myself preferring the infinite tweak-ability of Linux.
At the end of the day people use what they want to use, and what works for them. You can't say fairer than that. That's probably why over half the world web server are Linux based, leaving the rest spread between Unix and Windows... 8)
Cheers,
jcat
