i feel like interface and sound quality are my highest priorities.
i know that you cant beat apple's interface. their ability to support the ipod so perfectly comes from the fact that they make their products almost 100% by themselves (obviously they outsource things, but everything is propritary)
i would have to test creative's sound quality
I use redhat 8.0 beta. I use windows XP Professional. I use gentoo on my other computer. Recently i decided that it would be fun to test out performance data comparing linux and windows and this was my setup. I used my POS (compared to most nowadays) main computer and installed Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo. I have a 800 mhz P3, a GForce 3 ti200 and 512 megs of RDRAM at PC800 (yeah THAT was a stupid buy...). I used the Live Eval version of gentoo. Gentoo is close to THE fastest most stable linux distro. This live eval copy had only one purpose: to play this demo. In fact, the OS was so scrapped down that it could barely do anything but play it. Because of the 512 megs of ram, the OS was loaded completely into the memory so you people cant use the excuse that it was reading off of cd. I also installed it under windows (no explination needed). So in fact, everything was in favor of the linux setup (i.e. everyting reading from ram, scrapped down to nothing). I got a +2 and -2 fps difference depending on the rezolution.
As for responsiveness. Windows XP wins. Gui? no contest, XP and then Mac OS 10.2 outdoes them all. Now, i use the true type fonts under linux, but stuff in browsers still doesn't look that good.
linux is good...Its just not practical enough for me to use it more then 40% of the time. As one of my friends said who stopped using linux on his mac and started 10.2, "it just WORKS". Thats what linux needs. It needs to just work better, run better, look better (clarity is a big problem), and have more programs (even if we have to pay for some of them!)
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i feel like interface and sound quality are my highest priorities. i know that you cant beat apple's interface. their ability to support the ipod so perfectly comes from the fact that they make their products almost 100% by themselves (obviously they outsource things, but everything is propritary) i would have to test creative's sound quality
I use redhat 8.0 beta. I use windows XP Professional. I use gentoo on my other computer. Recently i decided that it would be fun to test out performance data comparing linux and windows and this was my setup. I used my POS (compared to most nowadays) main computer and installed Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo. I have a 800 mhz P3, a GForce 3 ti200 and 512 megs of RDRAM at PC800 (yeah THAT was a stupid buy...). I used the Live Eval version of gentoo. Gentoo is close to THE fastest most stable linux distro. This live eval copy had only one purpose: to play this demo. In fact, the OS was so scrapped down that it could barely do anything but play it. Because of the 512 megs of ram, the OS was loaded completely into the memory so you people cant use the excuse that it was reading off of cd. I also installed it under windows (no explination needed). So in fact, everything was in favor of the linux setup (i.e. everyting reading from ram, scrapped down to nothing). I got a +2 and -2 fps difference depending on the rezolution.
As for responsiveness. Windows XP wins. Gui? no contest, XP and then Mac OS 10.2 outdoes them all. Now, i use the true type fonts under linux, but stuff in browsers still doesn't look that good.
linux is good...Its just not practical enough for me to use it more then 40% of the time. As one of my friends said who stopped using linux on his mac and started 10.2, "it just WORKS". Thats what linux needs. It needs to just work better, run better, look better (clarity is a big problem), and have more programs (even if we have to pay for some of them!)