linux what is it good for?

[notfred]

Originally posted by: idNut
I tried doing what you're doing but all it ended me up doing was deleting it in frustration. No executables REALLY pissed me off. I'm too much of a Microsoft fan-boy to go any other way.

What do you mean by "no executables"? Do you mean, "The filenames didn't end in '.exe' so it confused me"?

 

[BatmanNate]

I used it for a router back in the day when I had ISDN and real routers were expensive so I used a 486 w/ liinux. I also used it as a webserver/FTP frontend for a long time before getting my quad.

EDIT: It was superior to Windows for these tasks because it was free, it was more stable, it was easier to configure, it was very small, and it would run on crappy hardware. I was using SME.

 

[Ynog]

Not bad for specialized tasks.

Say like running on something like an 8MB Disk.
Tasks that require close to real time or real time results.


I won't argue that you should use Linux to run Windows Apps.
Goes the other way. Why use Windows to run applications designed and that
performs better under Linux?
You use the right tool for the task. You don't use your refrigerator to cool your house.

But heres a thought if you have two applications that run equally on Windows and Linux.
I would say Linux, since its free, comes out the winner. If you have two applications
one free and one thats not free. And the one thats not free is far better than the
free one, then the pay for product is better.

However as an example, MS Office is a good tool. But lets be honest a majority of the people that use
Word and Excel use the same features that have been there since Office was created. And those features
can be found in other open software office-like products. Why buy Matlab if all you want is a calculator.

If you want to use linux and expect it to do everything Windows does. You probably just want Windows.
But to say Linux is good for nothing is a laugh. I might not be good for what you require it to do. But
that doesn't mean its good for nothing. Otherwise Windows is good for nothing in my book. But I know
that for the large percentage of people that don't even know what an operating system is let alone that
Windows is one, that Windows is probably a better computer for them.