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Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04
Barence writes "PC Pro has performed a comprehensive test of Windows 7 vs Ubuntu 10.04. They've tested and scored the two operating systems on a number of criteria, including usability, bundled apps, performance, compatibility and business. The final result is much closer than you might expect. 'Ubuntu is clearly an operating system on the rise,' PC Pro concludes. 'If we repeat this feature in a year's time, will it have closed the gap? We wouldn't bet against it.'"
Or rather, window manager, is no search. On windows, if I want to run something I don't have to waste time searching it in start menu, i just type part of the name in search box in start menu, press enter, and it opens. No such thing on linux. The "Find" application in kde takes ages to finish, as there's no indexing.
Tab completion in terminal doesn't cut it, there's no tab-completion for second part of the name (say I want to run "Visual Studio 2008" i just enter "st" and press enter...).
The only replacement for windows search is google desktop, but google desktop is much slower (atleast 2x) and sends everything to google servers, so it's not an option.
And that's the main reason linux is so unusable right now.
(even it it says that it doesn't, I'm not going to trust a marketing company with my data. Microsoft's business is in selling software so they have no incentive in selling my private data to advertisers, while this is the google's main and only business model - they give you free applications, you give them your data, they sell it)
Windows does what 90% of the users need for about 90 days. Then it bogs down or blows up.
Unfortunately Valve say there are no plans for a Linux version of Steam.
But Steam runs in Wine and so do a surprising number of Steam games;
Yes, "run" as in "it's a PITA do get them even startup in the first place and then there are still issues with sound, rendering glitches/errors, frequent crashes and performance".
I thought lack of iTunes was a feature. Rhythmbox is far superior to iTunes.
You can't convince a linux fanboy of that. They are going to contend that if they can't configure Wine, then they don't deserve to own a computer (or live).
It's quite interesting that PRICE is missing from the comparison. I'd say that based on their own scoring system, that would make it dead even!
The geek can't let go the fantasy of the "Microsoft Tax."
There are enormous economies of scale at play in the Windows market.
WalMart sells 149 flavors of the Windows laptop on-line. 88 desktops. 102 printers. It is pretty much all 64 bit Win 7 Home.
That does not happen when product is slow-moving. Difficult to sell. Expensive to service and support.