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I am tired of fighting, so I rather switch.
Anybody old enough to remember that TV add , I think it was about smoking?
Good old times.
Where can I get a "real scoop" on HOW Linux architecture / operation etc differs from WIndowze?
I don't need a lecture how the directories are structured, how to send an e-mail, how to switch desktop and install "space invaders " game etc.
Just HOW it actually works AKA Windoze runs "events loop" - what does Linux do?
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So why is it that every reference to MS's OS has been intentionally misspelt?
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Linux is just an operating system, although it offers full multi-user support which Windows does not. In general structure it is the same as UNIX and provides most of the same functionality. It would be impossible in a forum like this to explain in full detail what it can and cannot do, and much of the information you need will be specific to whatever problems you are trying to solve. At the very basic level you can write 'console' style programs using C/C++ much the same as in Windows. Networking is much the same, although GUI programs use a somewhat different framework.
The best option would be to get hold of an introductory book (Google should find them), and it is more than likely that there will even be some published in Russian.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Linux is just an operating system, although it offers full multi-user support which Windows does not
Care to elaborate on that?
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I would like to hear his reasoning too.
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Ya, no clue what he's referring to. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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If you are interested just Google for Linux, the information is easy to find.
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I know it is. Justifying your claim is not.
I use both, and I'm not sure how they differ in their multi-user support.
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I have used both professionally, and (as far as I recall) it's reasonably easy to see.
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You keep teasing it but refuse to give examples. There's myself and at least two others in this thread who are also interested in this.
I think your next response, if you decide to make one, will decide whether you're right or not.
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dandy72 wrote: refuse to give examples.
Examples of what? Log on to Linux and play. That's how I had to learn it.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Examples of what?
Pretend you don't know.
Ok, I'm done. You've just proven you have nothing to back up your claim with.
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Here seems as good a point as any to start reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Multi-user[^]
Concurrent multi-user and ability to modify shared libraries used by all seem like 2 important points of distinction.
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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What a contrived example. Has that been useful to you?
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If you've a better example, applicable to a larger audience I'm all ears.
Yes - I've saved a machine more than once by nuking the account that had installed incompatible and unstable libraries.
Used to use the concurrent multi-user abilities on DEC Alphas.
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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enhzflep wrote: If you've a better example, applicable to a larger audience I'm all ears.
Why should I be providing better examples, when I'm the one who's befuddled by a claim that Windows doesn't have "real" multi-user support? It's not up to me to prove somebody else's point.
enhzflep wrote: Yes - I've saved a machine more than once by nuking the account that had installed incompatible and unstable libraries.
Sounds drastic. What happened, a user installed an app that changed system libraries that affected OS stability?
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it works pretty much but the same, but linux is free and you can compile it yourself!
For some it's daunting.. For some it's like... I just made my freaking OS, I'm a genius! sky is the limit!
Apart from that it can make sense from device manufacturer point of view, why pay for windows when your device will work just as well on linux...
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Super Lloyd wrote: your device will work just as well on linux
After you have spent the past week searching for a video fdriver that actually works.
Yes, I know that does not happen so much now, but you do need to be more than reasonably computer literate to build and install it.
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You misunderstood me.
Your device (as in you, Richard MacCutchan) won't work as well.
But CompanyX deviceY with customized linux (by companyX to manage deviceY) will work just as well. Though they will have to spend R&D tailoring the linux distor, it might be less that writing a Windows driver + buying the Windows license for each device.
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No I didn't misunderstand. I worked extensively on Linux systems in the last few years of my professional career, and know from first-hand experience some of the difficulties associated with adding third-party devices to the system.
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OK, ok, I feel your pain! 
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The pain stopped as soon as the company decided they no longer needed my services. 
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Super Lloyd wrote: For some it's like...I just made my freaking OS, I'm a genius!
No they didn't and no they're not, unless of course they coded it themselves. It just proves they are masochists 
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So what's your point?
You tell them! I don't care and I know!
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