Still, buying a Video Card, and putting it into a VISTA system at that time, and it not working.... WTF? Yeah... Bugs bugs more bugs... new OS bigger security holes, why work with all that crap being patched EVERY week because they forgot something.
Well, if you look at how Dell is taking this Ubuntu / Linux seriously, you could most likely see Sony doing the same thing in the near future. They already support Linux on the PS2, and on the PS3 telling user's they want them to install Linux and Other OS's on it. Linux already run's Native UT2004, Doom3, and Quake4, there are a lot of high end games that run flawlessly on linux. I used to use windows just because there was games I liked to play, but I don't do that no more, i'm not going to support game dev for Windows, when Linux user's want them to make them natively for Linux. Talk about Doom3 or Quake 4 running better in my Linux then I've ever had it run in Windows "Overclocked or not" Not having to run Anti-Virus in the background is nice. I'm sure in the next 5 year's we will see a big transaction between window user's and linux user's i'm not saying All of them but there will be a lot.
I wouldn't want to replace windows, I just don't see the need in windows. You look at the window's users now how many of them go to friends / family or even the local computer shop to get "Windows" to stop crashing? stop lagging? Spyware? Virus's? how much of this could be fixed by showing them Ubuntu, yes it has come a long way to working with the avg user and showing them it's not hard. I would perfer to show them how to work Ubuntu's GUI's and if they really wanted to learn more show them how to do other stuff with linux then watch them pay to have junk removed from their computer over and over again. Just because they run anti-virus and anti-spyware and use up so much of their computer's speed and still get stuff don't mean they need to toss their wallet away with it.
People don't want linux because it don't run WINDOWS applications or games? PSH.... Game maker's can easily dev bin's to run in linux or just make the game for linux just need more push / pull. and why would I run Microsoft software on linux... What you want me to open up IE in linux? I hate IE it's slow crappy Use Firefox, you're going to use MS Office? Why when you have OpenOffice what programs do these people want to run from windows in linux... Linux has all kinds of programs that are easily installed and are very powerful and do everything windows software can do if not more.
If Linux would run Windows software seemlessly then you would have Spyware, and Virus's spamming Linux too, why would we want that when that's one of Linux's STRONG points... L2Play
First off, I totally disagree with this whole review of Linux vs Windows for the avg user. You sit a user down that knows nothing of linux and you tell them they can have a system where they don't have to run Spyware or Anti-Virus 24/7 like you do on a Windows system that slows you down right there and i'm sure they will agree that Linux score's big points there. Tell them they can surf the net, browse local networks, text edit, make webpages, photo edit, everything most user's do out of the box and it's all still easily usable.
Look at windows, most software you use is bloated with spyware in it as it is. Why would a user want to pay for a OS that has big security holes and needs patched every week and hide known security holes from the user's because they have not patch it yet and lie about it. Next look at DRM who want's DRM in their system. There's a lot of reasons not to use Windows, and just saying user's are having issues picking between Vista Home, Pro, and all that who cares... Vista Sucks IMO they had VIDEO cards being labeled Vista Compatible and they wouldn't work with vista, that don't sound too great... Linux has it's strong points, and is NOT a alt to windows, people will want to use Linux because it is a Great OS overall, and the community is very helpful to new, or geeky users who need help!
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Still, buying a Video Card, and putting it into a VISTA system at that time, and it not working.... WTF? Yeah... Bugs bugs more bugs... new OS bigger security holes, why work with all that crap being patched EVERY week because they forgot something.
Well, if you look at how Dell is taking this Ubuntu / Linux seriously, you could most likely see Sony doing the same thing in the near future. They already support Linux on the PS2, and on the PS3 telling user's they want them to install Linux and Other OS's on it. Linux already run's Native UT2004, Doom3, and Quake4, there are a lot of high end games that run flawlessly on linux. I used to use windows just because there was games I liked to play, but I don't do that no more, i'm not going to support game dev for Windows, when Linux user's want them to make them natively for Linux. Talk about Doom3 or Quake 4 running better in my Linux then I've ever had it run in Windows "Overclocked or not" Not having to run Anti-Virus in the background is nice. I'm sure in the next 5 year's we will see a big transaction between window user's and linux user's i'm not saying All of them but there will be a lot.
I wouldn't want to replace windows, I just don't see the need in windows. You look at the window's users now how many of them go to friends / family or even the local computer shop to get "Windows" to stop crashing? stop lagging? Spyware? Virus's? how much of this could be fixed by showing them Ubuntu, yes it has come a long way to working with the avg user and showing them it's not hard. I would perfer to show them how to work Ubuntu's GUI's and if they really wanted to learn more show them how to do other stuff with linux then watch them pay to have junk removed from their computer over and over again. Just because they run anti-virus and anti-spyware and use up so much of their computer's speed and still get stuff don't mean they need to toss their wallet away with it.
If Linux would run Windows software seemlessly then you would have Spyware, and Virus's spamming Linux too, why would we want that when that's one of Linux's STRONG points... L2Play
Look at windows, most software you use is bloated with spyware in it as it is. Why would a user want to pay for a OS that has big security holes and needs patched every week and hide known security holes from the user's because they have not patch it yet and lie about it. Next look at DRM who want's DRM in their system. There's a lot of reasons not to use Windows, and just saying user's are having issues picking between Vista Home, Pro, and all that who cares... Vista Sucks IMO they had VIDEO cards being labeled Vista Compatible and they wouldn't work with vista, that don't sound too great... Linux has it's strong points, and is NOT a alt to windows, people will want to use Linux because it is a Great OS overall, and the community is very helpful to new, or geeky users who need help!