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OS Combat - Ubuntu Linux Versus Vista

Posted by Zonk on from the cue-the-music dept.

An anonymous reader writes "InformationWeek pits Ubuntu Linux versus Windows Vista in a detailed comparison. They run down a number of points for this comparison, including installation, hardware support, software, and backup. For IW, backup was a crucial feature. As a result, the conclusion are unusual for this type of review because it straddles the fence. The verdict is: 'a tie, but only because both platforms fall short in some ways. Vista's roster of backup features aren't available in every SKU of the product; Ubuntu doesn't have anything like Vista's shadow copy system and its user-friendly backup tools are pretty rudimentary.'"

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  1. There's nothing to compare by zukinux · · Score: 0, Troll

    As long as Microsoft operating systems got nothing compared to BASH, Linux > Windows.

    and no, you can't work with cmd like you work with Bash, and I'm an advanced batch scripter, Bash is just much better and much user friendlier.
    There are many other things that makes Linux better then windows (any version), but I will let Microsoft answer the Bash thingy and then I will write some new problems to them why Linux is much much better :)

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    1. Re:There's nothing to compare by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Go slit your fucking wrists fucktard. No one wants your Microshit closed source solutions. OS-Based solutions=Open Source based solutions.

      Again, go slit your fucking wrists fucktard, no one will ever miss fucktards like you.

      -zukinux

  2. Twofo GNAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ubuntu is for faggots and Vista is for niggers.

  3. (plUs one Infor8ative) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    rivalry, and we]'ll Slashdot 'BSD is of OpenBSD versus bunch of gay negros www.anti-slash.org

  4. Re:Bias by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Windows (XP or Vista) will NEVER play DivX or Xvid codecs out of the box, nor will they ever automatically download them. DivX is a commercial codec, Xvid is a hacked version of said codec, and both codecs are predominantly used in video piracy (as you mentioned). Now that Microsoft is in the digital media business (downloads on the 360 and Zune, HCPI), they can't do anything that would even _imply_ that they supported downloading unsupported and illegal files.

  5. Re:Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And yet another