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Because people on Windows like GUIs instead of being stuck on MS-DOS like experience?

This is a hilarious comment because windows ignored the developer experience for YEARS with its horrible command line experience. Windows was a regression. Linux/unix, which powers the world by the way, is where it is at regardless of how old its foundations are.

And people on Linux like CLIs instead of being stuck on Win95 like experience.

Actually they are frozen on 1970's Bell Labs world, without realising how the world has progressed.

I think we just have to agree to disagree. My point was, modern Windows is nothing like Windows 95, just like modern command line experience is nothing like MS-DOS (as you seem to imply). Given a choice I strongly prefer command line for most tasks. Reducing my preference to ignorance rubs me in a wrong way.

Having been there when there was no other option, yes I pretty much consider some people prefer to be stuck in the past of green and amber phosphor terminals, like admiring the golden age of punch cards with diagonal red lines to avoid losing the deck order.

I love seeing this comment in a thread about OCI containers ( a deeply Linux technology ). This whole discussion is about the abstraction that people hav to use on Windows to make it work.

When you want to talk about how the world has progressed, I guess you do not mean Kubernetes or Docker. Give me an example of how Windows has changed the world in the last 30 years.

COM as universal technology to share commercial libraries, language agnostic.

Also the basis to share document manipulation across applications.

An usable 3D API, that has to be emulated on Linux, as not even Android developers care to port their games.

Making computing mainstream for non technical users, where locating where a file was saved is already a challenge in itself.

As for OCI containers, we are back in the 1970's, Linux is catching up with what IBM already did back then, still misses some of the cool capabilities of their mainframes.

It wasn't even the first as, Tru64 and HP-UX Vaults had the first container like capabilities in late 1990's, followed by Solaris Zones, BSD jails.

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