Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Mar 2008 17:57 UTC, submitted by CIozzio
PCMag compared Ubuntu, Windows, and Mac OS X to one another. "Now that the major OSs all run on Intel chips, the playing field is pretty leveled out. We compared the heavy hitters in an eight-point test to find who wins the OS battle."
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A lot of people seem to be picking holes in their treatment of Ubuntu (and there are quite a few -- what would an OS need to do to get 5 stars for price? Let you download it for free, then put $50 in your Paypal account?)
But doing this risks losing sight of the big picture. For possibly the first time, Ubuntu is being considered on equal terms with Windows and Mac OS in a "mainstream" (in tech circles) review. This would have been unthinkable just a couple of years ago.
What's more, it's earning praise: Gnome is seen as "clean and well-organised" and as incorporating the best bits of the Windows and Mac interfaces. And package management is (rightly) seen as a big plus.
So yes, it got some criticism, some of it deserved, some of it misguided. But let's not lose sight of the fact that right here, we're seeing beginnings of the much-longed-for "Linux as a mainstream OS". These are exciting times.