Ubuntu Wipes Windows 7 In Benchmarks

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 5, 2009 @08:10AM from the such-things-need-more-context-than-substance dept.

twitter writes "Recent and controversial benchmarks for Windows 7 leave an important question unanswered: 'Is it faster than GNU/Linux?' Here, at last, is a benchmark that pits Ubuntu, Vista and Windows 7 against each other on the same modern hardware. From install time to GUI efficiency, Ubuntu beats Windows and is often twice as fast. Where Windows 7 is competitive, the difference is something the average user would not notice. The average GNU/Linux user is now getting better absolute performance from their computer as well as better value than the average Windows user."

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Re:And... by Your.Master · 2009-02-05 09:04 · Score: 5, Interesting

I generally agree, but frankly, OpenOffice.org Writer is still not a drop-in replacement for MS Word if you're doing anything non-trivial. And I've worked on OpenOffice.org Writer -- it has a couple of advantages and a bunch of glaring omissions even today. I haven't tried Word in Wine, but if it's made such strides, then great.