Windows, Linux and MacOS equally.
Every OS Sucks, but that doesn't me that they couldn't suck less. Things could be so much better than they are now. The fact that we're all willing to live with the c[3] that is available now says less about the systems than it does about us.
Remember, both Unix and Windows succeeded in their times not because they were the best, but because they were easily available and ran on the cheapest practical hardware around (for Unix, it was PDP-11s in the 1970s and Sun workstations in the 1980s; for Windows, it was the ubiquitous PC, the first truly 'stock' system in the computer field); while MacOS succeeded through a slick Madison Ave advertising campaign that made them look 'artistic' and 'counterculture' even when the company was being run by the former CEO of PepsiCo. Linux has succeeded through a combination of those two strategies. None of them have had to actually survive based on actual technical merit; if they'd had, we'd probably be debating the merits of LispMs vs. DynaBooks.
Mind you, that would have been worse in some ways, as they would have remained expensive academic toys, and things like User Friendly, if they existed at all, would be available only to a handful of readers. So like with everything, it all balances somehow. |
