After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Increasingly Bad

mrcgran writes "Sys-Con has a look at some advantages of using Ubuntu over Windows. 'My recent switch to a single-boot Ubuntu setup on my Thinkpad T60 simply floors me on a regular basis. Most recently it's had to do with the experience of maintaining the software. Fresh from a very long Windows 2000 experience and a four-month Windows XP experience along with a long-time Linux sys admin role puts me in a great position to assess Ubuntu. Three prior attempts over the years at using Linux as my daily desktop OS had me primed for failure. Well, Ubuntu takes Linux where I've long hoped it would go — easy to use, reliable, dependable, great applications too but more on that later. It has some elegance to it — bet you never heard that about a Linux desktop before.'"

Comments

Re:Differing Opinion

[tomstdenis]

Um try gedit, nedit, kate, gvim, kdevelop, etc...

Fuck you. Graphical text editors are NOT new. In fact "nedit" is a motif based editor that [iirc] used to ship with SGI boxes.

As for using the terminal to do things it's not exactly complicated when you have a sane OS. If I want to, say, shut down apache ... /etc/init.d/apache2 stop

Wow, that's both complicated and unintuitive. I mean, what do they really mean by "stop"?

Tom

biased review and not very close to reality

[cg0def]

This Ubuntu is the best OS ever shit is really starting to get on my nerves. First of all even in the Linux world Gnome is inferior to KDE and 2nd linux and the OSS world still seem to lack the reliability of some of the programs available for Windows and Mac OS. Sorry but there is still no substitute for MS office and if you think otherwise you are either using under 10% of your office software or are full of s***. I am a *nix supporter and I have tried to even convert friends to it but you can't really do that when Ooo takes 5 times longer to draw a chart and when Ooo is still stuck at the level of office 97. My friends compare Ooo with Office 07 and I gotta admit 07 wins on pretty much every aspect. Not to mention the level of integration that some software companies have achieved within their own software suits ... There isn't a singe software package that can replace any of the Adobe products ( except for Acrobat reader ). What most linux bigots forget is that people are mostly stuck using Windows not because of the OS itself but because of the software that exists for Windows. Until you get the vendors to start offering the same products for linux, the OS stands absolutely no fighting change. Even Apple knows that. And this has really nothing to do with gaming and such. The fact that many people are willing to pay a pretty hefty sum of money for a Mac rather than installing linux should scream for itself. Yes Canonical has done a lot of good for the linux community but they are still missing the point. FUI i am a linux user for about 10 years now and I have a pretty good overview of where linux was and where it is now.

Re:Print version

[Oldsmobile]

Getting programs and hardware to work on Windows is a nice feature, sadly lacking from Ubuntu. Which otherwise is quite nice.