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What are the advantages and disadvantages of Unix compared to Windows operating systems?

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unfortunately, this question is too subjective to answer correctly.

each operating system has it's own advantages/disadvantages that would make it 'more suitable' for the specific requirement.

in general, UNIX is considered 'more robust' while WINDOWS is considered 'less secure/stable'.

WINDOWS is an 'operating system' that, historically used the 'processor chipset' provided by the INTEL corporation, 'evolved' from a 'local device only' operating system (MS-DOS) to a 'network capable' operating system (MS WINDOWS).

UNIX is an 'operating system' designed 'from the ground up' to emulate the characteristics of the 'mainframe' computer system.

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