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Yeah, BSD is good. :) Linux definitely caters to developers much more than Windows. I've tried programming in a Windows envrionment and strongly disliked the design. .NET is a disaster. I like a *nix environment for programming. It's far superior in my mind.
And for things like scripting and automating tasks, *nix wins without question. You can keep your files organized and do all kinds of things that would take hours in Windows that you can do with one line of bash or perl scripting (for example, I converted a whole bunch of .wav files to .mp3 while keeping the same name of the files and only changing the file extension in only a few lines of perl code.) :D Windows fails to address a lot of the things that I find are crucial to me functioning in a computer environment.
Not to mention that Linux and BSD are open source. I can learn from coding projects that have been done before to do things that I want to do. I can also contribute to the projects and improve the software itself. While with Windows, you can't even modify the programs that are given to you (unless you feel like programming in machine code for three years.) Nor can you make the experience of using Microsoft software better for everybody else. You can do that in an open source environment.
And for things like scripting and automating tasks, *nix wins without question. You can keep your files organized and do all kinds of things that would take hours in Windows that you can do with one line of bash or perl scripting (for example, I converted a whole bunch of
Not to mention that Linux and BSD are open source. I can learn from coding projects that have been done before to do things that I want to do. I can also contribute to the projects and improve the software itself. While with Windows, you can't even modify the programs that are given to you (unless you feel like programming in machine code for three years.) Nor can you make the experience of using Microsoft software better for everybody else. You can do that in an open source environment.
