Exactly Windows is far more of a pain to install. On this machine I dual booted with Ubuntu so for a quick comparison here's what happened.
Linux: named every piece of hardware and preloaded the drivers, hell the installer told me what hardware I had fitted into the box. I was on the internet in minutes.
Windows: produced a long list of question marks and unknowns, if I hadn't had the cds to hand I would have had dismantle the machine to find out what I had.
Linux wins
My Canon digital camera doesn't work on a windows pc without canon's bloatware, but plug it into my ubuntu box and it works straight away.
Linux wins
My iriver connects as an external hard drive on both linux and windows, but linux recognises it and loads my default audio player, now that's cool.
Linux wins
Frankly this article should be about how the rest of world isn't ready to for Windows. Ubuntu just works with pretty much everything hardware related, Windows just doesn't.
Move nearer to where you work. Buy a fuel efficient car, better buy an electric car. The taxes that the tories and lib dems have proposed would mean it would make economic sense to 'go green'.
Besides it shouldn't be up to the government to make you do something because it's in your general interest that the planet isn't just one giant ocean, unless you like swimming of course in that case go nuts.
If we wait for everyone else to agree on how to tackle climate change it'll be too late. The UK (and anyone else who's up for it) needs tack the lead and tackle the problem head on prove that the technology works and that the world's economy won't fall apart if we go for it. We can then sell our solutions to the rest of the world when they realise they're all damned to burn in Nevada for eternity or drown in Florida.
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frankly I can't wait to be 'forked'... ;)
Exactly Windows is far more of a pain to install. On this machine I dual booted with Ubuntu so for a quick comparison here's what happened. Linux: named every piece of hardware and preloaded the drivers, hell the installer told me what hardware I had fitted into the box. I was on the internet in minutes. Windows: produced a long list of question marks and unknowns, if I hadn't had the cds to hand I would have had dismantle the machine to find out what I had. Linux wins My Canon digital camera doesn't work on a windows pc without canon's bloatware, but plug it into my ubuntu box and it works straight away. Linux wins My iriver connects as an external hard drive on both linux and windows, but linux recognises it and loads my default audio player, now that's cool. Linux wins Frankly this article should be about how the rest of world isn't ready to for Windows. Ubuntu just works with pretty much everything hardware related, Windows just doesn't.
Move nearer to where you work. Buy a fuel efficient car, better buy an electric car. The taxes that the tories and lib dems have proposed would mean it would make economic sense to 'go green'. Besides it shouldn't be up to the government to make you do something because it's in your general interest that the planet isn't just one giant ocean, unless you like swimming of course in that case go nuts.
If we wait for everyone else to agree on how to tackle climate change it'll be too late. The UK (and anyone else who's up for it) needs tack the lead and tackle the problem head on prove that the technology works and that the world's economy won't fall apart if we go for it. We can then sell our solutions to the rest of the world when they realise they're all damned to burn in Nevada for eternity or drown in Florida.