Linux V Windows Analogies

[BigSteve_G]

Just woundering what analogies people use when explaining the differances between Linux & Windows?

I ask because I was recently telling my foreman at work at about Linux & explained it in a way he'd understand (hes a HGV machanic) saying Windows is like a car whereas Linux is like a helicopter - they both get you from on place to another just in different ways.

[trapperjohn]

Windows is like a train; your confined to the track.

[MartyMint]

I wouldn't explain technology to anyone over the age of 12 with analogy.

It's demeaning to both parties.

[trapperjohn]

Linux has no walls and no fences, so their are no windows and no gates,

[Spearmint2]

Windows is like playing with a dollhouse, Linux is like playing with Legos. You can put things in the dollhouse and take them out, but at end of day it's still a dollhouse. What you can do or build with Linux is limited only by your imagination.

[BigSteve_G]

Windows is like playing with a dollhouse, Linux is like playing with Legos. You can put things in the dollhouse and take them out, but at end of day it's still a dollhouse. What you can do or build with Linux is limited only by your imagination.

I'd heard one like this before but it went - Windows is like buying a model car, paint it how it want so it looks different but at the end of the day its still the same model car - Linux is like a model car built from lego, you can change it any how you want & make it in to anything you want.