Is there anything Linux can do that Windows simply cannot?

Not completely trash a hard disk with a shitty, proprietary file system?

Not spy on you.

>>55875339
>>55875353

Not so sure about either of these.

>>55875329
email?

Take up less than 1 gig of space on an hd.

I'd like reasons that aren't coming from an autist please

>>55875436
This one I can agree with.

But for a modern distro, this is far from true.

Run bioinformatics software like samtools, bwa, genome assemblers...

Most things I work with every day work only on Unix-derived systems.

>>55875329
excluding the obvious "just vm" linux can:
give you reason to learn about the fundamentals of filesystems and unix operating systems.

give you freedom to completely swap out your desktop and manager

allow you to rewrite and swap out parts of it that you dont like (eg. you know those annoying errors you occasionally encounter with windows where it just says an error code and that something is wrong, with linux you can just look it up and change the os to fix that problem. in windows the source is closed so you are stuck with rudamentary work arounds)
>too hard
insult your own intelligance and give up, use whatever works for you, but dont act like just because its too hard for to spend a few hours on askubuntu and the archwiki that you are somehow getting a superior product

>>55875329
Networking. Though BSD does some of the networking better than Linux. (10/100/1000 nat at linespeed on low end hardware, for example)

That being said, Linux hits the networking mark by being good enough.

Which sucks, because as much as I'd like to keep Windows as my load balancer, it just can't keep up.

a proper cli interface
native unix toolkit
anything networking
by far better programming environment. things just work

>>55875518
think most distros are still under 2gb

>>55875329
Be case sensitive
Give easy access to system-level stuff via an easy interface
Not be a cunt to install when the installer dislikes one little part of your system setup

>>55875329
Have a process hierarchy.

>>55875561
>cli interface

>>55875329
There's scarcely anything either of them can do that the other flat out cannot with the exception of running a particular program that was specifically built for them (and even then that's arguably not true once you bring VMs into the mix).
It's mainly about things they each do better.

>>55875329
games, hahaha jk

>>55875329
Updating the whole system including all the softwares

>>55875329
take poo to the loo

>>55875329
Turning off cortana

>>55875329
Run on ZFS

>>55875329
Changing between desktop environments without crashing

>>55875653

there's kind of shitty/hacky methods to do that in windows but yeah

>>55875702
Will that update vlc player and Photoshop CS2 to the latest?

Run on a 486 with 16mb of ram from one floppy http://www.toms.net/rb/

>>55875733

You update VLC with powershell or chocaletey.

>Photoshop CS2

I mean, it's not like theres updates anyways

>>55875329
Run a complete Apache fullstack

>>55875329
run battlenet launcher and all the games

>>55875835
u wot blizzard games run ridiculously good on wine

>>55875804
Does choco update Windows 7 to 10?

>>55875852

if you get the module for it yeah

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>>55875329
being a trash

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be free

>>55875946
this, ubuntu is even passable for gaming today

>>55875981

If you play super normie shit like valve and blizzard games. Let's be honest here, game support is still woefully lacking from devs and publishers

>>55875624
Sorry I was busy making a deposit in the atm machine

Not being infested by Pajeets and shills.

Updating without restarting.

>>55876017
most indie games are multi-plat and those are essentially the opposite of "normie" and older games run fine with WINE. The only game I have had trouble with is a poorly made bullet hell that runs like shit even on Windows.

>>55876048

>indie-shit

I love generic side scrollers with "retro" 8-bit graphics that look worse than actual 8-bit games

>>55876048
Indie platformers are the most normie thing I can conceive of behind shit like CSGO or LoL.

>>55876161

Considering the top sellers on steam I agree

>>55876161
what about cod/battlefield/halo

>>55876370
Same basket as CSGO and LoL.

>>55875329
1. One click full system updates, I guess you could configure choco to do a lot, but I don't think you could reach all system software.

2. Case sensitive folders, probably pointless.

3. Use more than 512GB of RAM, also probably pointless but there is that.

Ask the people who use Linux for top 500 supercomputers instead of NT

There's a literal fuckload of features regarding networking, local security, encryption, filesystem support, virtualization, hardware support that windows simply doesn't bother with as a consumer workstation OS, ignoring the capability of the kernel API (implying anyone here knows about that), performance differences, and "little things" like /proc

>>55875329
Not spy on you automatically

>>55875329
Yeah, it can not install updates if I don't want them.

Never get higher than single digit market share.

>>55876403
>2. Case sensitive folders, probably pointless.
Windows can do that with ReFS, not easily though.

>>55876453
desktop market share destroys good operating systems anyways

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>>55875329
infuriate you for free.