<quote who="Leo Butler"> > To be honest, it seems laughable to pump up ubuntu as a windows killer. > It's unfortunate that w7 is not the miserable flop that was vista, but > let us put this all into perspective: > Almost as many users still use w2k as every brand of linux. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_desktop_operating_systems Why unfortunate? I'm a pragmatist - I use what I consider to be the most appropriate tool that allows me to get the job down. I like to play the latest and greatest computer games and I have made a heavy investment in specialised hardware that allows me to do this. Yes there are nvidia drivers for Linux, but they aren't as feature-complete as the Windows drivers, plus nearly all games are written for Windows and the Windows APIs (DirectX for example). I would like to be able to play Crysis or Call of Duty 4 on Linux but the fact of the matter is that it's just not possible, hence why I bought a Vista 64bit licence and why I also have a Windows 7 license. If I want to do a bit of programming or if I'm on the go, I have my Macbook running OSX that does everything I need it to - it's the best general purpose tool and things really do "just work" without any faffing abour. Likewise I am currently typing this mail into squirrelmail, itself using Apache and PHP hosted on a dedicated server running Debian. For hosting my mail, running a small website and looking after my DNS, a Linux install is the best tool for *these* jobs. It would be nice if Linux was the best tool to meet all my computing needs, but I'm afraid that just isn't the case and I recognise that in some cases, Windows (or OSX) really is a better choice than Linux - the appropriate tool will depend entirely on the job you want to do :) B > As far as I can see, windows was losing some of its share of the os > market to mac osx, but w7 may have changed this. On the other hand, > linux's fraction of the desktop market is moving sideways. In my > experience, > many older users of linux have migrated to osx, even while some newer > users take up the free os. > > Leo > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can find the EdLUG mailing list FAQ list at: > http://www.edlug.org.uk/list_faq.html > > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can find the EdLUG mailing list FAQ list at: http://www.edlug.org.uk/list_faq.html
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