Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Aug 2007 17:17 UTC, submitted by Oliver
"In this article, I'll compare Ubuntu 7.04 with the upcoming release of PC-BSD 1.4. Having used both operating systems extensively, PC-BSD is the one I recommend and the one I install in desktop environments. If you've used Ubuntu before, but haven't tried PC-BSD, give it a try. The increase in responsiveness (i.e., everything seems to just run faster) and ease-of-use will surprise you."
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2005-07-07
Indeed. Linux has approx three different kinds of apps: KDE/Qt apps, Gnome/GTK apps (and both have some apps that don't adhere to the standards, like Scribus and Gimp, but those are just a few) and the third are some old and weird looking motif things.
Most ppl use Gnome or KDE, and have a few apps of the other DE in there. If you use KDE and use the GTK-Qt theme, the difference is even hard to see.
Now go and compare this to windows, where you would have a hard time finding two apps really looking the same, even if they are MS apps (eg MS Word, IE7, Explorer, Notepad and Messenger don't seem to have even a single widget in common, here on XP!!!). Same goes for MAC, btw. Black & Glossy, 5 kinds of aqua-like, brushed metal.
Windows and Mac os X are a mess. Linux is much better - just two dominant toolkits, and a very very small amount of apps with another toolkit. OK, I admit, OO.o and Firefox have their own stuff, but a lot of work by the community ensured there is really reasonable integration now.