Shawn H Corey wrote:
Rene Schickbauer wrote:Shawn H Corey wrote:Personally, I don't see why anyone would want to run Windows. It's like trying to run a marathon while dragging a bus.For me, its mainly because it pays the rent.I did say, "want to" not "have to" :)
Well, working on windows does have its benefits. When something goes horribly wrong, you can always point the finger to Redmont and your users will believe you (not matter who's fault it really is)...
But, of course, Windows just doesn't scale very well for large projects, the API's are ugly and you're constantly working around the operating system to get things going. But at least the ugly API's don't change every other week with some software update (like is likely to happen on many open source plattforms).
Your installers and scripts mostly don't break between major operating system update or even between different flavors of the same OS family. Making simple-to-use installers/packages for different flavors of Linux is a *major* pain in the behind. Your Perl scripts can't assume anything (whether it's paths, shells, available basic utilities etc) and no matter what kind of GUI toolkit you use, the majority of users will complain that it's the wrong one cause it doesn't integrate well into their themes setup...
To summarize: All operating systems and flavors thereof have really major flaws in their design and the resulting incompatibilities. Adding more slightly-different-color bikesheds to the mix only makes it worse. But the resulting confusion and incompatibility pays a lot of jobs... including mine. So, that said, no, i really can't complain.
LG
Rene
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