Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by dmitriid on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:08AM (#25121241)

> Is the userbase size relevant?

Yes

> I'm trying to point out that the ecosystems are so different that it's hard to quantify which side has "more".

No. In response to "there's 100 times more software in Windows." you started speaking about dockerhub and git. That does not encompass all software, especially software that is required by non-programmers.

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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by __MatrixMan__ on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @04:27PM (#25130104)

Let L be the set of all software for Linux and W be the set of all software for Windows.

If there is a subset of L that is larger than W, then L itself is also larger than W.

I was proposing that if you count every image, or every repo, then dockerhub-only or the GitHub-only subsets of L might be larger than W because the effort of creating an additional windows project is much greater than the effort of creating an additional Linux project.

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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by dmitriid on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @04:12AM (#25134675)

The amount of software in dockerhub and github is entirely irrelevant when you just for a second stop considering just the subset "developers who use linux-compatible tools".

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