What is the basic difference between unix and windows
operating systems?
Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback
Answer / ahamed rasik
Window is more and more flexible to new user compare than unix
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Answer / nirosha
unix is open source
windows is not a open source
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Answer / cyrus
windows supports removable media.UNIX does not support
removable media.
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Answer / pratul
unix will not be affected by virus as most of the viruses
are developed under platform of windows.and even unix is
command line user interface
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Answer / bandi sreekanth
windows most probably grafhical interface and unix always command line interface
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Answer / uma shankar pandey
Windows have a recycle bin where store the deleted things
while Unix have not .
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Answer / ashish lalawat
Windows is mouse dominated (everything that we can do by
mouse can't be done by a keyboard)
Unix is keyboard dominated ( everything that we can do by a
keyboard can't be done by a mouse) ex. refreshing.
Unix requires much authentication (password) for most of the
purposes like updating etc. whereas Windows does not.
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Answer / nitin
Unix consume more power
Window consme less power in compare to unix
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Answer / sujatha
Unix file system is hierarchical based ,a root contain the
total structure of the file system.
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Answer / sharmila
windows is gii based where as unix is clui based
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