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Richard Caley <spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <866lg9$po0$1@scotsman.ed.ac.uk>, Karl Stephen (ks) writes:
>
> ks> Case sensitivity, now there's something which pisses me off about
Unix.
>
> This is definitely one of those things which people just habituate
> to. People who have used mostly case sensitoive systems find non-case
> sensitive things amazingly stupid and vice-versa.

Mark me as someone who hates case-insensitivity.

As to O/S fragility could UNIX's good reputation and Windows' bad be down to
the amount of tinkering that users do?

For example, if you put a user in front of a UNIX dumb terminal, the chances
are that it has been set up such that when the user logs in it runs whatever
application(s) that the system administrator(s) have allowed them - and
usually nothing else. Now your average Windows user has been sat in front of
a machine which, unless it has profiles, etc set up, is wide open to people
playing - and Sod's Law says that if they can play with it they will.

As for Linux, AIUI, your average Linux users is more switched on than your
average Windows user. This concept is based on the thought that if you go to
the trouble to source and install Linux as opposed to going with the market
leader then you have studied the problem in advance.

If this assertion holds true then your average Linux installation is better
supported and understood (by the user) than your average Windows one.

Jamie