1. What is the best thing about Unix? A: The community. 2. What is the worst thing about Unix? A: That there are so many communities.

Learning the insides of things is what got me into UNIX. I wanted to know how hardware and operating systems worked together. Rooted in academia and science, the community and culture drew me in, It is a problem solvers platform. You will find many a startup trying to make their dream come true by hacking together their idea in C/Linux. Microsoft may develop a great business application platform. But if you want to learn and experiment with new computer science concepts you have UNIX.