I believe the whole argument is pointless, since the mentioned pieces of
software compete for totally different types of users. I really don't
think that a mid-aged lady who wants to print out a birthday greeting
would find much use in vi, or ed for that sake .. and so a programmer
looking for an IDE wouldn't find Word very useful.
The differences comes down to the design philosophy of the discussed OS,
where Linux is appreciated and loved for it's stability, configurability
and trancparancy, and is somewhat of an 'intellectual elite' OS, while
Windows design philosophy mainly comes out of marketing goals, which is
top-level simplicity and ease of use, even if it would result in programs
being inefficient and crawling and the OS being extremely buggy.
It's a rule of thumb that there are more people who are in some state of
technophobia than there are techie gurus who have all the time in the
world to top-notch configure their beloved shrine of optimized
compilation.
Sure, the borders aren't as clear as they used to be with all those KDE's
and GNOMEs floating around and with the big money coming into this niche
to market software and make it more "dumb user friendly" ..
But still, I believe that comparison can be made simply from a subjective
point of view.
Hmpf.
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