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Re:Where does the Ubuntu Linux desktop go from here? by braveo on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:37AM (#14098708)
Windows and Linux have different philosophies. Whereas Windows likes the monolothic approach, unix likes the small utility approach.

This is why vim is a hell of a lot more useful to me on linux than on windows. In Linux, I actually prefer vim over sublime. In windows, I use sublime over vim.

It's not simply a matter of polish, the environments are completely different, and therefore the tools that are successful on the platforms are completely different.

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Re:Where does the Ubuntu Linux desktop go from here? by zamalek on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:44AM (#14098795)
And there is the problem. To reiterate, given a half decent editor (which was historically lacking in Windows), I've found that I don't prefer one over the other - they are both part of the same philosophy: getting shit done and writing good software.
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