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Faster only if you think boot speed equals desktop speed. And if you are a fanboy. But I can assure you that even if it boots faster (I can't say that, but let's assume), it's by no means faster than 7. I double booted Ubuntu 9.10 an Windows 7 for about 2 weeks and nothing in Ubuntu seems faster. "

Try Kubuntu then. I can assure you that on the same hardware, everyting is much faster than Windows 7.



BTW, if you want your most commonly used applications to load faster in Kubuntu/Ubuntu (at the expense of boot time), then install a daemon called preload. This is very similar to what Windows 7 uses to reduce application load times (at the expense of boot time).

Are you planning to be a comedian? Or are you acting just like a simple fanboy? What's better? The fact that Network Manager is broken? The fact that pppoeconf stalls? The fact that various programs are crashing? Or the fact that Open Office can't open a .doc or .docx document whitout breaking it? The fact that gimp sucks when you compare it with Photoshop? The fact that you can't find professionally written software? The fact that 99.99% of largely used software does not run native on Ubuntu? "

Network manager isn't broken, it works fine (I have no comment on pppoeconf as I haven't used it, I use network manager which works fine). I have had no crashes at all with Kubuntu 9.10. You can't open a .doc or a .docx at all on the software that Windows 7 comes with. You can't do ANYTHING that GIMP can do with the software that Windows 7 comes with (and the GIMP BTW has improved considerably of late, you really need to keep your rants up to date). You certainly CAN find proprietary software for Linux (if that is what you really mean with your jibe "professionally written).

http://personal-finance-software-review.toptenreviews.com/moneydanc...

I only need my OS to run on one machine. "

So? For a great number of people, that isn't the case, and the comparitive licensing restrictions (or lack thereof) are an important consideration.

Can we laugh? Are you refering to mips and arm as "desktop hardware"? Because if you talk about x86 and adon cards, windows suports much more hardware than any other os. "

No. If we are talking just x86 desktop machines under the category of "existing hardware", then vastly more of those machines will run Ubuntu/Kubuntu than will run Windows 7. Almost any existing, still-working x86 desktop machine will run Ubuntu/Kubuntu. Windows 7 wouldn't work acceptably on any more than (being generous) a maximum of 10% of existing machines.

I don't even have to mention ARM here (which BTW is the most prolific CPU architecture I believe).

I want an OS, not a whore. If you are in for "bling", you can use Mac OS X. "

Fair enough, you don't have to use bling. I mention it only because it is not a lack at all with Ubuntu/Kubuntu.

BTW - some "bling" is actually useful in some contexts. You should check out multiple desktops, the desktop cube, and KDE 4 Plasma's desktop widgets and Folderview and newspaper containments sometime.

Edited 2009-11-03 22:50 UTC