Why do all supercomputers in the world use linux?
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Windows is a sandboxed OS where you’re at the mercy of Microsoft’s decisions on how an OS is designed and how it should function.
Microsoft’s goals are making an OS that caters to a normal persons use case and retaining compatibility with all their batshit decisions over the last 25+ years.
Linux is a kernel that is incredibly customizable. You can tailor the functions of the kernel for your exact use case. Then you can swap out entire operating systems on top of it and customize the behavior even further for how you want it to work.
If you’re going to be building a computer to do complex calculations, the ability to tailor the OS and its functionality for the specific architecture and design use case is extremely important.
But even aside from that, Linux gives the user much more control over how the operating system functions are used. The design is much better thought out for people who understand computers and know exactly what they want to do and how they want to do it.
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