Edit to make comment more civil and substantive while retaining its content, can't apply it anymore though. (versioned comments without edit lock would be nice)
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I don't see how having a philosophy and applying it into software they develop is disrespectful.
If anything, I find it disrespectful to demand change to something they publish free of charge in such a tone,
after all you are free to fork and adapt their work however you please.
Additionally it is not their fault that the windows philosophy clashes with the unix world,
which is something I'd hold microsoft accountable for.
Unix tools are hard to get right on windows, see git, which basically installs its own userland on windows.
I wouldn't judge them for picking a way and sticking with it.
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In the interest of being more civil and adding to my comment too, I agree with most of what you have said.
I only disagree with the snarky Windows development comment. :) Visual Studio is hands down the best IDE I have ever used. The DirectX API is very nice (just ask any game developer and they'll tell you how much of a pig OpenGL is to work with). I use OSX at work and Windows at home, I much prefer development on Windows.
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