Windows 7

[JN]

As a server OS I love Linux, but as a desktop OS it bugs the hell out of me. Sure it's got some great features, but the entire experience feels like its been created by 1000 people who have never met or spoken to each other before (probably some truth?). I just like continuity in an OS.

EDIT: and I'm with Tox. Every Linux desktop distro I've ever tried has been slooooow out of the box.

 

[ionicle]

linux is inventive though, somthing windows stopped being a long time ago it seems

there's so many usefull features, like the ability to dock stuff to the taskbars

and then lock it there, so you cant edit it...

not to mention amarok, an amazing media player

you could do most things on linux that you could on windows

if they released an official windows live messenger for it, rather than pidgeon, then i'd go back to it...

that would be the only thing i would miss..

 

[Zoot]

That is one such way of looking at open source. However IMO an OS being Open source is actually a great strength in some respects.

I will concede that older PCs like my Opteron 150 based work PC is pretty slow running Red Hat, however that's mainly because the actual installation is built for newer systems.

On a modern multi core PC (especially a Quad Core) there isn't really any reason that a Linux distro would be tangibly slower than Windows, in non specialized tasks.

Ubuntu is the prime example of linux coping windows

One of the main philosophies Canonical have with Ubuntu is to gear it at people switching from Windows to Linux in order to make that switch as easy as possible and in all honesty they do that quite well.

Copying Windows? How exactly?

linux is inventive though, somthing windows stopped being a long time ago it seems

there's so many usefull features, like the ability to dock stuff to the taskbars

and then lock it there, so you cant edit it...

not to mention amarok, an amazing media player

you could do most things on linux that you could on windows

The main place it falls down is driver and application support. Here's a benchmark that illustrates that.

[url]http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=860&num=1[/URL]

 

[Toxcity]

Copies Windows on whole the GUI is setup how the automatic updater works... Linux is meant to be "better" but yet I see many version which are almost exactly the same to using Windows.

Might as well use the real thing and be able to run that application.

 

[Zoot]

As for being better. Read this. and this.

KDE is sort of similar to Luna or Aero, but Gnome is completely different and highly customizable. Luna/Aero don't allow the huge of level customization gnome does. The whole GUI is yours to mess with, for example it can be made look like Mac, Vista, XP, 2000 etc. Then there's the 3D desktop effects. Look here.

Linux's best feature is the processor scability, that's where it truly shines and trounces Windows when it comes to multitasking. The only thing it lacks is support be it drivers and applications, that's the reason why I among countless others are still tied to Windows in some shape or form.

Anyway, I think we've gone off on a bit of a tangent here, and kind of fell into the trap that the internet is almost 100% opinion at the end of the day.

 

[Hassan]

If people feel that Ubuntu is copying Vista - well in that case Vista has copied OS X - so in that case you may aswell fall into the claws of OS X.

I say that in the most respectful way

 

[Zoot]

if people feel that ubuntu is copying vista - well in that case vista has copied os x

qft.

 

[Rastalovich]

hehe it`s weird to install Vista on a pc, and then strip away from it all the artificial things that make it `look` like Vista, and u get what looks like XP without a theme. (cept with a messed up version of explorer)

Be interesting if u could get an XP theme for Vista