OS Performance — Snow Leopard, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.10

BeckySharp writes "With the nearly simultaneous release of Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' (available right now) and Microsoft's Windows 7 (available Oct. 22), you get the inevitable debate: Which is the better operating system, Windows 7 or Snow Leopard? To help determine that, Computerworld's Preston Gralla put both operating systems through their paces, selected categories for a head-to-head competition, and then chose a winner in each category." Relatedly, Phoronix has posted Snow Leopard vs. Ubuntu 9.10 benchmarks. They ran tests from ray tracing to 3D gaming to compilation. Their tests show Ubuntu 9.10 winning a number of the tests, but there are some slowdowns in performance and still multiple wins in favor of Snow Leopard, so the end result is mixed.

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Re:Lets not forget

[InsaneProcessor]

How about the freedom to simply get stuff done rather than spending 5 hours unsuccessfully trying to get your sound card to work?

Exactly the point. Each of the three OSs described here are for three distinct audiences. They cannot be compared with any reasonable conclusion that would be useful to anyone.

Windows 7 is for the masses.

Snow Leopard is for a limited set of elitists and the technically challenged with lots of money

Linux is for geeks and people with a lot of time on their hands.