So, for dumb users, Windows is excellent.
I guess computing is used for automation and electronisation of work so that it need not be replicated and can be reproduced at a click. Windows is apt for it. It has a class word-processor, a spreadsheet and a presentation making software. As a host OS it can give ease installation of the M$ Visual Studio and some popular, proprietary and open source DBs. Tell me a app which is not on Windows and on any other OS. Don't call them dumb users please. You can call them non-engineers and may be users.
But stand-alone devices use Linux. I am hazarding a wild guess, but if we put all Routers, media players, GPS receivers, etc. together, the number of Linux installation might exceed Windows.
Well, Windows is a Operating System. Linux is a Kernel a monolithic kernel.
However, since nobody pays for the OS and most of the stuff is available "from thin air", nobody actually cares too much about it.
Its open source. Its free. It can be reengineered. I guess that solves its purpose of existence and engineering. What do you say.
And there the Linux conference are very unlike the MS conference/workshops. In a Linux conference, people even bring their own chairs and in MS workshop there is the usual corporate tamasha.
I guess it should be called CULTURE.
I am sure Linux is doing very well in what it is supposed to do.
When did i disagree?.
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