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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2007-07-10
Even as a gnu linux / bsd user, I'm gonna have to agree with the 'bundled applications' nod to mac. I mean, Ubuntu includes everything you need, but as to what the reviewer seemed to be going for - slickness, integration - Ubuntu is definitely beat (not just by mac: a well done, minimalist KDE setup would easily best both in slickness, although the only place I've seen this is Arch's kdemod, which is far from 'bundled software').
One thing that really surprised me, though, was the total absence of Compiz. One-click activation of it was a touted feature of Gutsy (not to mention Compiz's massive hype among workstation distros), and the fact that it was totally ignored really would most definitely impact the interface scores (but then again, including it would worsen the driver situation).
Oh well; the march towards a perfect distro continues.