This is modded funny, but it's not untrue. Between work and home, I use Ubuntu and Windows 7 about equally... and I have to admit, my Windows experience in the last few years (with quality hardware, and well-supported drivers) has been excellent. The only bluescreens I've gotten in the last ~4 years were just recently, due to an old failing hard drive. Removing the drive fixed that.
I think both Linux (Ubuntu in my case) and Windows have each come a very long way in the last 5 or so years. Neither is perfect, but both are pretty good. The biggest problem with Windows these days is its popularity -- more malware gets written for it than anything else, much of which doesn't even require exploits (other than exploiting the user him/herself).
Sounds just like what I hear about Linux. Oh it's not Linux's fault, it's nvidia's binary driver, or Logitech's crappy unsupported webcam, or some up-stream package the distribution uses but doesn't maintain (but includes in their default install... Ubuntu and PulseAudio, anyone?), etc...
My purpose here is not to troll, but to point out that this can, and does, happen with any OS that is aimed at a very very wide range of hardware and supports all manner of 3rd party software. This includes some things like drivers that plug directly into the OS itself at a low level, and only in an ideal world does everything play 100% nice with each other. Sometimes (some would even say "often"), Microsoft is to blame (or *insert favourite Linux distrib or OS here*), but definitely not all the time.
These are simply the facts of computing as they are today. As much as I wish things were different, they're not.
Not everything has to meet your dream requirements. It only has to have a target audience, and I see a system with high-end video having one audience and a more integrated chip (and probably less power-consuming) with lesser graphics performance combined with a cheaper motherboard, having a different audience.
From the way you talk, there's no point in selling anything but top of the line i7 or Xeon systems, because who would ever want any of those cheaper, less powerful crappy systems?
I wish people would give the whole PulseAudio issue a rest, for fuck sakes. This issue has been run-over like interstate road-kill.
The reasons that Ubuntu decided to go with PulseAudio have been clearly stated (see http://ossguy.com/?p=347 and the Ubuntu wiki entry it links to). I don't doubt that some users are having problems, but with any OS there are bound to be users who have problems with one thing or another. I have run Ubuntu Desktop on a wide variety of hardware and sound has just worked for me... I'm not really sure what I'm doing differently than anyone else.
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This is modded funny, but it's not untrue. Between work and home, I use Ubuntu and Windows 7 about equally... and I have to admit, my Windows experience in the last few years (with quality hardware, and well-supported drivers) has been excellent. The only bluescreens I've gotten in the last ~4 years were just recently, due to an old failing hard drive. Removing the drive fixed that.
I think both Linux (Ubuntu in my case) and Windows have each come a very long way in the last 5 or so years. Neither is perfect, but both are pretty good. The biggest problem with Windows these days is its popularity -- more malware gets written for it than anything else, much of which doesn't even require exploits (other than exploiting the user him/herself).
Sounds just like what I hear about Linux. Oh it's not Linux's fault, it's nvidia's binary driver, or Logitech's crappy unsupported webcam, or some up-stream package the distribution uses but doesn't maintain (but includes in their default install... Ubuntu and PulseAudio, anyone?), etc...
My purpose here is not to troll, but to point out that this can, and does, happen with any OS that is aimed at a very very wide range of hardware and supports all manner of 3rd party software. This includes some things like drivers that plug directly into the OS itself at a low level, and only in an ideal world does everything play 100% nice with each other. Sometimes (some would even say "often"), Microsoft is to blame (or *insert favourite Linux distrib or OS here*), but definitely not all the time.
These are simply the facts of computing as they are today. As much as I wish things were different, they're not.
From the way you talk, there's no point in selling anything but top of the line i7 or Xeon systems, because who would ever want any of those cheaper, less powerful crappy systems?
And water isn't a poison, but you'll still die if you drink too much of it.
I wish people would give the whole PulseAudio issue a rest, for fuck sakes. This issue has been run-over like interstate road-kill.
The reasons that Ubuntu decided to go with PulseAudio have been clearly stated (see http://ossguy.com/?p=347 and the Ubuntu wiki entry it links to). I don't doubt that some users are having problems, but with any OS there are bound to be users who have problems with one thing or another. I have run Ubuntu Desktop on a wide variety of hardware and sound has just worked for me... I'm not really sure what I'm doing differently than anyone else.