The trouble with Unix (1981)
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Most (ALL?) of the criticisms of Unix in the article also applied to the operating systems of the day too. The Unix of the day was miles ahead of any of its peers. In fact, apart from the Desktop metaphor (which Unix had many years before Windows was a glint in Gates' eye), the directory-structure of the Unix of today is very little different. Showing that 'If it works, don't fix it'.
It's often said that quality withstands the Test of Time. We're still using Unix 40 years after that article first came out. Even the Mac users. <grin>
Jobs saw the Alto (or similar) in 1979.
Unix GUI workstations (Apollo, Sun) appeared from 1980 onwards.
Apple's Lisa appeared in 1982, followed a year or so later by the Mac Series
MSFT's Windows 3.0 was their first GUI offering. That was in 1990. Windows 3.1 was released in 1992. Windows 95 that showed a real desktop metaphor was released in 1995.
I left off using MSDOS in 1990, and moved first to the similar command-line interface Unix Version 7. In 1991 I used my first Desktop GUI with AT&T's UNIX followed by Novell's Unixware which was equivalent to the (4 years later) Windows 95.
In 1992, I first got connected to the internet, mainly for the Usenet newsgroups, the odd email, and downloading software via FTP. I also played a bit with the new Mosaic web browser, but I didn't think it could go anywhere because nobody knew what sites were actually on the web. That problem persisted until search engines arrived a few years later.
Around 1992-1993 I had heard so much buzz about Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1 that I thought I must have a look at it. I was shocked at how primitive and pretty much unusable that Windows 3.1 was.
Around that time I was starting to use a Sun Workstation which was very advanced (to my eyes) even though other more-advanced Sun users considered it a 'boat-anchor'. It had 1.7 GIG of storage at a time when most PC's would be lucky to have more than 50 Megabytes. And a 19" screen was practically unheard of in the Apple/Windows scenes of the time, mainly because they cost thousands of dollars.
Meanwhile, this new-fangled thing called Linux was starting to show up on the Unix-users radar. Every six months or so, I'd look at it, and go back to my Sun machines. But around 2001, I realised that Linux had caught up with my Sun systems, and was actually beginning to be better. That was when I changed my 'everyday system' to Linux, and have remained ever since.
I never went through a period of Windows being my 'everyday system'.