>> Any sane technical person should believe that a Unix-based OS (or something better) that can run Windows programs would be superior.
I find that such statement always lack a well-stated assumption/goal: i.e. superior "for what"?
It's easy for most of us to say a Ferrari is superior to RAV4... but if we don't explicitly scope-limit, there's going to be some disappointed IKEA shoppers :D
In terms of Unix, I use AIX full time at work for servers (let's not go there;), Linux on some servers and desktops. But I'm certainly not going to install Linux for my wife or mother in law - I'm a proponent and an enthusiast but not a masochist and I do not want to constantly fix and explain the differences.
Perhaps less controversially, for my gaming & photo-editing PC, Windows "just works". I don't worry about install, drivers, maintenance, distros, anything. It's been rock stable through Win7-Win10 updates from 2013 through now with no reinstalls or hassle.
Is that a personal anecdote - of course it is; but if we're going to make sweeping "it's superior" statements, I feel we must state the scope/goal. So very very very few things in life are superior for everything to everybody :-/
I find that such statement always lack a well-stated assumption/goal: i.e. superior "for what"?
It's easy for most of us to say a Ferrari is superior to RAV4... but if we don't explicitly scope-limit, there's going to be some disappointed IKEA shoppers :D
In terms of Unix, I use AIX full time at work for servers (let's not go there;), Linux on some servers and desktops. But I'm certainly not going to install Linux for my wife or mother in law - I'm a proponent and an enthusiast but not a masochist and I do not want to constantly fix and explain the differences.
Perhaps less controversially, for my gaming & photo-editing PC, Windows "just works". I don't worry about install, drivers, maintenance, distros, anything. It's been rock stable through Win7-Win10 updates from 2013 through now with no reinstalls or hassle.
Is that a personal anecdote - of course it is; but if we're going to make sweeping "it's superior" statements, I feel we must state the scope/goal. So very very very few things in life are superior for everything to everybody :-/