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What MS-DOS Can Do That Linux Can't
shares important technical and cultural roots with MS-DOS. They're both text-based operating systems at heart, even though their proponents later developed GUIs which could sit on top of that text interface.
They're both text-based operating systems at heart, even though their proponents later developed GUIs which could sit on top of that text interface. Both ended up flourishing into vibrant developer communities in which tons of people wrote free software for the sake of making something useful or good. Linux has garnered so much additional weight that it is, arguably, an even worse example of bloatware than Microsoft Windows, and that's saying a lot.
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