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Ubuntu Wipes Windows 7 In Benchmarks
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."
That heapin' helpin' of "we own you" butt-hurt that Microsoft can smack down on any given Windows/MS Product user.
Without that, most users might go absolutely insane from all the power available to them!
Right? RIGHT?
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Ubuntu requires so many less mouse clicks to install than Windows, it's just amazing. It also shuts down 4 seconds faster, which will really boost my performance and work flow.
You can tag this flamebait or troll, but as soon as those 3 items at least match the speed they are in windows, I will switch to ubuntu in a second.
Since when is Silverlight a requirement for web browsing? Wishful thinking on Microsoft's part aside, I can see someone demanding Flash. But really... Silverlight?
Personal anecdotes: I have a Q6600 / 8GB 800MHz RAM / 512MB Geforce 8600GT. I used 8.10 as my primary desktop for a few months. Now I'm using Win 7 beta. Of the two, I strongly prefer Win 7, and one of the reasons for the switch was the unacceptable slowness of the X-windows GUI and all the glitches still present in Firefox 3.0.5.
Seconded. All the GUI tearing in Ubuntu gave me a headache within minutes of using 8.10-- I also have Nvidia graphics hardware. It's becoming increasingly clear that X11 will never be hacked into a usable local display option. The open source community badly needs something more desktop centric.
I wish more developers would pay attention to Haiku for the desktop so we can have a POSIX compliant free desktop operating system that is built with the desktop in mind. It's just too much hacks from Point Server to Point Desktop in linuxland.
Open source systems that aren't linux are okay- as long as they're POSIX compliant it's no big deal to recompile the source and do a tiny bit of GUI porting. We already wrote all this open source code, after all. Let's keep linux on the servers and pave a new solution for desktops that is actually competitive with Mac and Windows.
As long as Firefox and Opera run better in Windows and my overall desktop experience is smoother and faster, I can't put open source ideals in front of usability.
All we need to do is get a comparison of:
Photoshop
AutoCAD Revit and ACA
Outlook (or fully Exchange compatible client; we are in the small business world here...)
MS Excel and Word, or a compatible program which perfectly reads and calculates using the MS installed base of custom spreadsheets and templates (which often would cost $n x 10^5 to replicate in a competing package like OOo for even small shops)
What else do we have that is "mission critical" to small/home office people in various industries? I could name three or four I'd be confident would not work under Wine, such as RAM Advanse or RISA3D. There may be alternate options (though I doubt it) for Linux, but again it would cost about $10-15k to train each engineer in the new software to get them as proficient as in the current apps.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
There are a lot of comments here that are claiming that these comparisons are bad. Bad for who? Maybe bad for YOU, in particular, but I thought some of it was interesting.
Actually, the disk space question is important to me. I have some older WD Raptors in a stripe, and I only have 136 GB of usable space. I tried installing Vista 64-bit over my 12 GB XP partition, and got a low-disk-space warning right after I logged in.
I immediately started doing things like moving the swap file to my data volume, and turning off hibernation and offline-files support, but every time I cleared up some space, Windows would turn around and eat it again. I still have no idea what it was gobbling it up for.
As an aside, it turns out that BOTH the 32-bit AND 64-bit versions of Vista were incredibly crashy for me. I only keep Windows around to play games, and Fallout 3 crashed 3 times within 5 minutes on 64-bit, and 5 times within an hour on 32-bit. I'm back on XP where I get a couple BSOD's every month, but it's only when I go to shutdown. I can play as long as I'd like.
Acts 17:28, "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being."
Yeah baby - I am gonna install the latest games, MS Office 2007, Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop CS4 on my phat Ubuntu box.... NOT! Sorry, but I like USING my computer, not dicking with it, and even when I decide to I dick with it, I rather use Backtrack3 off an 8gb usb microsd not UBUNTU. Ubuntu is cumbersome and buggy to use and still doesn't run real world applications. Yay its free, so are herpes - get some.
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
The average home user of Ubuntu (or any other Linux or Free-BSD for that matter) will never have to defrag their hard disk because of a better system of deciding where on the disk to put files as they're created.
The average home user of Windows will never have to defrag their hard disk either, since it won't make any noticable difference.