An inconvenient truth

[Bruce Adams]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:52:58 +0100, Bruno Medeiros  
<brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail> wrote:

>
> This is not a perfect analogy, but when I initially met some of my  
> programmer friends, I often ranted about Windows instability, lack of  
> speed, and general crapness, where often the response was "use Linux"  
> (or "use MacOS"). And yes they are all faster, more stable, and robust.  
> But, behold, they're simply not Windows, lol! What I mean with this,  
> concretely, is that they don't have things or behaviors that Windows  
> has, that are not immediately noticeable but are important to me, and  
> that due to their nature, hardly ever will have. I'm not even talking  
> about the availability of applications or games, but, in the case of  
> Linux, stuff like a simple, organized and terse, filesystem model. (and  
> in the case of MacOS it's rather "An OS without the gay, please". :-P )
>
OT but what do you mean by a terse filesystem model? I can't think of one
advantage of windows file systems over linuxy ones, unless you actually
like 8.3 file names (okay that's old hat) and semantics that belong in the
file (as in I am type X) being in the filename instead.
The only difference I can think of is the case sensitivity. That counts as
simpler, but certainly not more organised or terse.