This is just one of those "your opinion" answers. Unfortunately I'm with Kuu on this one, I'd probably stay in linux if it had commercial support (relevant to myself like office/photoshop/VIDEO GAMES) but that just undermines what the whole idea of free software linux (I know there are commercial products, but most desktop linux OS's are based around the free principle) is about anyway. Yeah, I'm probably getting buttfudgeed by the companies but unfortunately commercial software sometimes does things better than our free alternatives.

As for Windows being a clusterfudge...it is, but that doesn't mean you can learn your way around the operating system to tune it. So far I've been using it in a pseudo-unix/gnutools/whateverencompassestheshell environment by doing my file operations and other spoon with powershell. It's nice, not a lot of people like it, but it seems to be a suitable replacement for a bash shell that I sorely miss from linux.

If anything, you can pull ideas from linux and see if you can apply them in windows, I'm doing that effectively so far.

What it really boils down to is that you can really get either operating system to do what you want if you just have an open mind to learn. So it'll be better or worse depending on your knowledge. Learn your tools!

Apologies to the linux gurus for my terminology, I can never follow it correctly :/

If I have to make a closing statement though, you may want to support the linux distros just because they're free. The last thing you need is for someone to put a pricetag on things that you use to get on with your life in the digital age.

(This post was last modified: 05/09/2013 02:14 PM by Tetris999.)