A CIO's View of Ubuntu

onehitwonder writes "Well-known CIO John Halamka has rigorously tested six different operating systems over the course of a year in an effort to find a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows on his laptop and his company's computers. Here is CIO.com's initial writeup on Halamka's experiences; we discussed their followup article on SUSE. Now CIO is running a writeup on Halamka's take on Ubuntu and how it stacks up against Novell SUSE 10, RHEL, Fedora, XP, and Mac OS X, in a life-and-death business environment." For the impatient, here's Halamka's conclusion: "A balanced approach of Windows for the niche business application user, Macs for the graphic artists/researchers, SUSE for enterprise kiosks/thin clients, and Ubuntu for power users seems like the sweet spot for 2008."

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KDE vs GNOME

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Halamka preferred Ubuntus user interface to SUSEs because it was simpler and more straightforward, but he notes that SUSE might be more appropriate for workers used to Windows.

The FA seems to ignore the existance of different GUIs, is not SUSE vs UBUNTO, is KDE vs GNOME.

Is my opinion that KDE should be used instead of GNOME for a linux based windows replacement solution.