> I don't think linux offers any advantage over windows
It's free in beer, and free as in speech. The developer experience is much better on Linux; doing something like running all your video assets through a converter in parallel is a one-line shell script on Linux [1], but a hundred-line Python script on Windows. Subjectively, on Linux filesystems seem to be faster and overall memory usage seems to be smaller.
Seriously, a long time hardcore unix guy doesn't see the benefits of Linux over Windows?
>Seriously, a long time hardcore unix guy doesn't see the benefits of Linux over Windows?
Nope. Linux barely even resembles unix at this point, as I mentioned. That one line shell script is also a one line shell script on windows, install cygwin or learn powershell. I find the developer experience on linux to be terrible, I do my development on openbsd running in virtualbox regardless of whether I am running windows or linux.
It's free in beer, and free as in speech. The developer experience is much better on Linux; doing something like running all your video assets through a converter in parallel is a one-line shell script on Linux [1], but a hundred-line Python script on Windows. Subjectively, on Linux filesystems seem to be faster and overall memory usage seems to be smaller.
Seriously, a long time hardcore unix guy doesn't see the benefits of Linux over Windows?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6363676