Linked by David Adams on Tue 27th Mar 2007 15:03 UTC, submitted by Corinne Iozzio
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Member since:2007-03-26
Having used both Vista and Ubuntu, I'd actually say Vista was better (and that's coming from a *nix fanboy)
How exactly is Vista better than Ubuntu? Is it the DRM, WGA, Activation or the incredible system requirements?
Please, enlighten us. I for one can't even imagine what you are talking about.
If you were talking about about the lack of commercial applications I would understand, but then again this is the fault of software vendors not Linux.
How exactly is Vista better than Ubuntu? Is it the DRM, WGA, Activation or the incredible system requirements?
Please, enlighten us. I for one can't even imagine what you are talking about.
If you were talking about about the lack of commercial applications I would understand, but then again this is the fault of software vendors not Linux.
Most of the stuff you described can turned off with a little know-how. Just like to get the best of out Ubuntu requires a little know how.
Vista is hardly the best Windows system (2000 would get my vote) but then in my honest opinion Ubuntu is hardly the best Linux system either. One thing Windows does very well is it's a well rounded system with specialist support (ie Cubase: Music production) - however loads of people use Ubuntu so it obviously apeals to an audience.
My suggestion is rather than arguing that x system is better then y system (which i'm guilty of as well), you guys should accept that x system does some things better than y system and equally y system does some things better than x.
Edited 2007-03-28 13:40
Member since:2007-03-09
Most of the stuff you described can turned off with a little know-how. Just like to get the best of out Ubuntu requires a little know how.
Well Ubuntu may not yet work perfectly out of the box for everybody, but that sure as hell is the goal (of Ubuntu and many other distros).
In Vista you need knowledge to turn off stuff that does not improve the user experience in any way. This will never be the case with Linux distros (hopefully at least).
And how do you turn off unwanted bloat in Vista? In Linux it's just the matter of uninstalling the apps you don't need.
Vista is hardly the best Windows system (2000 would get my vote)
At last we agree on something 
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2007-03-09
Having used both Vista and Ubuntu, I'd actually say Vista was better (and that's coming from a *nix fanboy)
How exactly is Vista better than Ubuntu? Is it the DRM, WGA, Activation or the incredible system requirements?
Please, enlighten us. I for one can't even imagine what you are talking about.
If you were talking about about the lack of commercial applications I would understand, but then again this is the fault of software vendors not Linux.