@astonerbum said:
@Kurgan said:Sorry, I did not mean to be "the usual windows basher".
I am a Linux sysadmin, and to tell you the truth, I don't like windows very much.
Give my wife a linux box (pre installed) and have her install some wierd program... it won't happen. Not without her bitching at me as to where is her windows and why the hell did I install linux on her computer.
Oh please. That's because she is used to Windows, yes. If you wife had been using Linux for years and you gave her Windows (which she has never used) she will bitch too. It's not an argument against Linux - but it IS an argument against "Everybody should switch to Linux!". I run Ubuntu on my laptop. All the time. I love it, never had any problems with it whatsoever. But I won't convince my mom to use Ubuntu because she is used to Windows now and it would be too much work to teach her to use Linux. And not because Linux is too difficult (not for what she uses her computer for anyway, e-mail, word processing and surfing the web) but because she's already confused when her Outlook shortcut moves one place to the right on her desktop. Seriously. That's also the reason I dread the day she'll have to use Vista - it's different and therefor BAD, in her eyes.
So for me and my laptop, Ubuntu is superior to Windows (I'm talking XP here, have only played around with Vista for a few hours), mostly because many laptop manufacturers do some truly idiotic things. On my Acer laptop with an ATI Mobility card, I can't install the ATI drivers (Setup wizard says I don't have any ATI hardware, manual install bluescreens). I *have* to install the drivers Acer provides, which are out of date - and this is after a fresh install of Windows.
But lets face it, for most people (especially if they are computer illeterate) change is bad because it confuses them, not because what they are changing too is bad. I believe this is also one of the reasons why Vista was received so badly - sure, it may not be a shiny gem of an OS, but I can't believe it's as bad as many people make it out to be. But it is different...