daemon097 said:
well, first of all, a lot of the unix command don't even function the way they're supposed to. The last one I remember was trying to plumb an interface...doesn't work. (the man page says it can do it...yet it won't allow it.)
...and in my past experiences, there's been tons of little stuff like that all over the place..which is enough to frusterate any experienced unix user...like myself.
I doubt that, you probably missed a part of it. Sometimes it's not just about reading the man page, sometimes is useful and necessary to read the man pages that appear under the topic "See also". As James put it very well, there's a fine learning curve to UNIX that most people who are thrown at windows disregard, because it's all so... easy, it's about getting the games and the chat programs/browsers to work, the rest comes almost transparently. I can tell that I've been a UNIX/Linux user for longer than windows and I kinda like both, but for different purposes.
If I want to browse pages, chat, watch videos and do regular stuff, I choose a PC with windows.
If I want to record something and work at the recording industry, the MAC is without a doubt, my choice.
If I want to develop a program or do network related stuff, I choose UNIX regardless of the architecture where it will run upon, cause that will be transparently.
It's about choosing the adequate tools to adequatedly solve the problem.
Andy Sneap said:
It comes bundled with free worm virus
That wasn't probably the brightest argument to diss on PCs, being that the very first worm virus ever created and spread on the net, the morris worm in 1988, attacked the platform your MACs run nowadays, the first versions of the UNIX flavours - BSDi and SunOS.
Period.
