at least the color is better...
I used unix in various flavors for 15 years. Being able to command rsync to synchronize a file, folder, or application across the world was done with a single intuitive command at the command line. Same with global substitution, data search, file compression, etc. Regular expressions are a must know for any IT pro and adding perl is invaluable - especially in any high-tech design shop.
Besides that built-in mastery of the network and command line simplicity, all flavors of unix have color schemes which are much less problematic than any version of windoze. For example, in SQLserver 2012 they finally have a 'dark' color scheme. But all the numbers default to white, making them hard to read when pasted into outlook - even using the black outlook color scheme. Similar problems have always occurred with every version of Windows 'dark' color schemes.
I have never seen anything close to that on unix. switching from the black on white of windows, to the default green on black in unix is refreshing (and probably healthier). Now that we can run free VMs, loading a windoze OS to boot (for the wife/Outlook), and an ubuntu vm for me keeps everybody happy with little or no performance hit.
