Are you willing to supply any metric that does back this statement?

Other branded workstations are made by HP, IBM, SGI and SUN.
ussually workstations cost from 2000 USD$ to 60000 USD$
specialized to HPC.



When Xeon processors came on scene, Dell used special cooling
at workstations with very low acoustic impact, unlike
others that used fan arrays.

Dell - the company that for a number of years used power supplies
with the standard ATX connector, but with the wires shifted.
Insert a Dell PSU in a non-Dell machine, and smell the smoke.
Insert a standard PSU in a Dell machine, and smell the smoke.
Thank you Dell.

Somone sugested a method used to stop a NOVELL NETWARE server, was
to put a toothpick to the PSU cooling fan. Do you like the smell of smoke
or do you intend to do a serious damage to hardware ?

Linux boxes was not selected by people because of the lack of simplicity.
Have you used (install/setup/configure/maintanance) SLACKWARE ?

When ordinary people asked simple use of computers, that time computer
environments become more complicated. The computing power of Apollo misions
to moon needed less effort than a current ATmega16 or C8051F330 provides.

Current Windows environment is not native from M$. The have used the
trends in the open software community. Multiple desktops are presented
many years ago (remember FreeBSD, NetBSD, KDE, GNOME, Xfce, ...)
It is Known that for win95 environment M$ bought a company with that
kind of GUI.

Speaking of GUI, Sony PS3 used to have NetBSD as an underlying OS to
give control to all these extreme graphics for gaming.

Someday Workstations were stated as a 3M machine
1 million instructions per second
1 megabyte of RAM
1 megabyte of storage
and the real power were the developers/programmers that used that
machine to overcome real-world problems.
Nowdays any speed is inadequate even for simple tasks because
users asks for real inefficcient features.

I always see the OS as a companion tool to applications. If you decide
that updates are not crucial then don't use them.

K.L.Angelis