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To: SeekAndFind
Now, let's have some reasons why Chrome OS and MAC OS X are BETTER than Windows 10.

Chrome OS and Mac OS X are based on Unix. That makes them superior from the get-go.

The original sin was using backslash as the directory separator. The backslash already had a perfectly valid use: to escape special characters. To appropriate it for use as the directory separator was unacceptable.

66 posted on 07/22/2015 1:44:25 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody
The original sin was using backslash as the directory separator. The backslash already had a perfectly valid use: to escape special characters. To appropriate it for use as the directory separator was unacceptable.

It could just as easily be argued that the forward slash already had a perfectly valid use as a division operator and appropriating it for use as a directory separator was unacceptable.

69 posted on 07/22/2015 3:32:10 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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