Is Your Motherboard as Good as Mother Russia?

            Ever hear of those Russian Supercomputers that are supposed to be ridiculously fast and impossibly good at chess like most Russians? Stereotyping, yes I know, but computers these days are becoming extraordinarily faster and are still becoming better at an exponential rate. Although it is still not like the rate that we humans enjoy reproducing, that is still at a much higher rate, but it is starting to drop quite a bit. Anyway, apparently Russia has not had any of the world's largest super computers for a while now. There is of course, probably some discrepancy within the data where it does not find the most superior computer, but there is probably a limit a computer has to pass to become a super computer, and by that I mean, the graphs are only showing quantity rather than quantity.

            My interrogative nature will not let me put this question to rest. Why do we even have super computers anyway? I mean, if we have the technology to create a supercomputer, why is it not widely available to the public. Sure most of us plebeians do not have much of a use for them, but when top secret government places have it, it not only shows the differences between the richest and poorest classes, but it also feeds, much like my League of Legends teammates, the conspiracy theorists who are all about, "the government is corrupting" or "Aliens DO exist" which usually is not such a large deal, but it is something to look at. 

            I wonder why most of the operating systems are usually none of the popular ones, because Linux is not used in all of its penguin wonderfulness, and hardly anyone has even heard of Unix in years. Nobody out there can possibly say that they have not heard of a single person who has not had an argument with another about whether Windows or Apple is better, unless one lives under a rock or in Iowa. (It is okay, I can make these jokes, I am an Iowan.) Supposedly the world's best computers are made using Linux, but many people decide to use Windows or Apple instead. I cannot say much, since I am using Windows, but I would assume the reason is that these two operating systems are easier to use and more self-explanatory though more restrictive on actions. Looking at it this way, it could be analogous to how the smartest put effort into their work, but the average ones are lazy. Hint, hint, right?