Doors and Windows
"People are Strange." I left Windows June 4 for Fedora Core 2. I switched to Slackware 10 around September 15. I just realized that in the last three months I haven't booted into Windows at all besides at LAN parties when I play Quake III (which I don't have for Linux yet). After seeing my parents' problems in Windows everyday and after not being able to fix a good portion of their problems I have decided that I am very lucky.
I've sent mail directly from my computer using sendmail when my smtp server on my website was being tempermental. Windows does not have anything even similar to this, in fact many Windows users reading this may not even understand the concept of the simple program I just mentioned. I used whois today to find information on a website for someone and I used a perl script today (rather than a shell script) to solve a problem I had. I don't think Windows even has the capability to execute perl scripts like batch files and even if it does you have to hassle with installing perl to do so.
I can use nmap whenever I want or run a command like sed or grep to find/replace text in files easily. I would need to download a program in Windows to do this same thing. In fact I had to download GNUWin32's port of sed to accomplish the very simple task of converting instances of "%20"'s in a string to spaces because this is apparently not possible to do in DOS. Sorry for the Linux rambling. I just realized how lucky I am now. Thanks Geri for introducing me to Mandrake, Redhat, and Debian.
I've sent mail directly from my computer using sendmail when my smtp server on my website was being tempermental. Windows does not have anything even similar to this, in fact many Windows users reading this may not even understand the concept of the simple program I just mentioned. I used whois today to find information on a website for someone and I used a perl script today (rather than a shell script) to solve a problem I had. I don't think Windows even has the capability to execute perl scripts like batch files and even if it does you have to hassle with installing perl to do so.
I can use nmap whenever I want or run a command like sed or grep to find/replace text in files easily. I would need to download a program in Windows to do this same thing. In fact I had to download GNUWin32's port of sed to accomplish the very simple task of converting instances of "%20"'s in a string to spaces because this is apparently not possible to do in DOS. Sorry for the Linux rambling. I just realized how lucky I am now. Thanks Geri for introducing me to Mandrake, Redhat, and Debian.
5 Comments:
Another reason why you should consider yourself lucky: you don't have to deal with and stay on top of security problems every day.
By Will, at 9:01 PM
I realize that this post makes me look like I'm attempting to promote Linux for everyone. This is not the case. I'm just stating what I currently feel which is that I am happy that I made the choice to switch and as a webmaster I am happy that I have the tools I have after switching. I just never realized until a month ago that many of these tools existed.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that there exist some "extra" features in Linux as there exist "extra" features in Windows that Linux certainly lacks. BTW, most of the "extra" tools I've found so far are mostly for network admins or webmasters so don't think about switching to Linux just to get these. There are Windows equivalents of these if you need them also. Just Google for any of these and you are bound to found a Windows version pretty quickly.
By T-Ray, at 9:04 PM
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By T-Ray, at 9:14 PM
test... my ftp is still down i think
By T-Ray, at 10:04 AM
Sorry about all the repeat commenting. Blogger didn't like FTP last night and I didn't realize it. This happened right as I decided to attempt to redeem myself for looking like a Windows-hating fool.
By T-Ray, at 5:46 PM
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