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Vista Vs. Gutsy Gibbon
ricegf writes in with the account of one Rupert Goodwins writing in ZDNet UK. Goodwins has 7 computers running various versions of Windows and Linux, and explains why he chooses to do most of his work on the Gibbon. "So here's the funny thing. I've used Windows since 1.0. I've lived through the bad times of Windows/386 and ME, and the good times of NT 3.51 and 2K. I know XP if not backwards, then with a degree of familiarity that only middle-aged co-dependents can afford each other... Then how come I'm so much more at home with Ubuntu than Vista? It boils down to one abiding impression: Ubuntu goes out of its way to get out of your way... Vista goes out of its way to be Vista and enforce the Vista way."
And that is the problem with Linux. What non-nerd user wants to do or even would know how to do this sort of thing?
Heck, I am a nerd and if I switch my desktop to a Unix OS I am going to just get a Mac.
You see what you want to see.
Major vendors would have to offer choices for that to be true. They don't, as the US Government once observed, because of the M$ monopoly. Quit pretending people have choices and get a chance to make comparisons.
Short of actually installing and using an OS, you have YouTube and opinion pieces from trade magazines. With M$'s advertising budget, the trade mags are just a little slanted in their coverage. Not even Slashdot cares about people's software freedom.
Everybody should use the system they like and stop preaching and advocating.
If you don't like Ubuntu or comparison articles and opinions one way or the other, you should go find an article you like and comment there. You might actually know something about the subject and look less like a hypocrite who's trying to preach atheism in a church. Freedom is worth advocating and I'm going to continue to tell people who read comparison articles that Windows will never do what users want because it's not free.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.