PROS AND CONS OF LINUX--
With linux you loose 20-30% of your profit because you cannot run the fastest x86 private miners. You cannot run claymores decred+etherum miner. You cannot overclock.(Perhaps if you mess with the Cool bits). The 64bit build is using more power.
Actually, you can OC, change voltage, and more quickly and simply do your OWN dev on *nix. Just because YOU can't learn how to flash your cards doesn't mean no one can.
You shouldn't need to flash your cards in the first place. Once again Nix making things immensely more complicated so you can get so called 'stability' and brag about not rebooting your machine in three years.
Windows isn't perfect, but going to nix is like using Windows 3.11. Almost everything you have to do in the CLI and occasionally you use the UI to pretend you're modern.
Nope, it's not, actually. It's far more flexible and usable than you think - and the only reason you DO have to flash your cards is because the driver devs can't be fucked to add proper support. And it's closed, so no one else can.
You sure love talking about shit you know nothing about.
Yeah, woop dee do... You can literally do anything in it. That doesn't mean it's worth your time to try to do anything in it. That was my point. Just like with W3.11, your productivity tanks because you spend most of your time tinkering around with your OS and doing things it should be doing for you...
Yeah, I wonder why driver developers also see very little reason to add proper support outside render farms because literally no one uses it except for corporations who hire people who essentially have degrees in it.
I do love talking about shit I know plenty about. Sorry if your up turned nose can't be bothered looking at things from the common pleb perspective.
It's not that much diferent on Windows. Anything you can do with a GUI you can do better with the CLI, even on Windows.
It's just that Windows has put more focus on GUIs because of the demographic they market to.
With Windows you can fix your OS almost entirely with the UI. Sometimes you have to do really specialized things and dig through the registry or use a CLI parameter to make things work, but almost all of the time you can putter around the OS and fix things. Most of the time the OS and the UI itself is intuitive enough where you can learn from it.
With nix that doesn't exist. Almost nothing advanced you can change from inside the UI and most of the time if anything breaks you have to go right to the command line. Doing so also means you need to know exact commands to make things work and the OS doesn't offer much in the way of ways to help you to figure things out. So you have to spend 90% of your time on google or talking to dick holes on a support forum somewhere which will make sure to point out how superior nix is to everything else and drag you through the mud before telling you what you want to hear.
It's no surprise there are degrees specifically for use of nix and normal people don't touch it with a 10ft pole.