Windows Vista vs. Linux
There’s this long conversation going on in Vista and Ubuntu. Actually there are also some comments about the Mac. He also wrote about something that is actually quite debatable on both sides.
I have to admit, I haven’t had any more issues with drivers since November. I guess once you get up and running things even out. I still say drivers are soooo much easier in Linux. But hey…
This is actually debatable because there are devices that do work on various Linux distributions but may not necessarily work in Windows due to the lack of drivers. Most of the distributions try to ship with the latest available drivers and those who are using hardware which would require these would have to scour the various mailing lists and forums to get hardware working on their Linux machines.
People might argue that the blog entry spouts Linux fanboy protests against Vista but, you see, they reality is that people are getting accustomed to certain things about the operating system and desktop environment that they are using.
At the end of the day we have to learn new things about the two operating systems and the Mac as well, if we have people around us who have it. Let’s try to learn from the comments in the blog entry instead of arguing. There are helpful comments that gave links to various Windows tools and so on.
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2 opinions for Windows Vista vs. Linux
alvlin
Feb 29, 2008 at 5:26 am
The problem is: there are people that can’t stand someone thinking different.
Some people can’t stand people who likes the other football team, the other political party or the other OS, in this case.
That’s part of how we are, we need to be able to tolerate and understand that other people thinks different, sometimes because they have different levels of knowledge, sometimes because they just have different needs.
We need to be able to say (and truly believe): “I’m a Slackware user & fan, I don’t like Ubuntu or Windows for different reasons, but feel free to use them if they do what you need them to do.”
And no, I’m not able to say that “yet”, but I’m trying :-)
Fria
Mar 3, 2008 at 7:36 pm
So very true. People, in my opinion, have always looked for differences and congregated into clicks. For every problem in Windows, I can find one in Linux. For every advantage, I can likewise do the same in the other OS. I like to have the greatest range of choices and options, so I take advantage of them when I can. And I don’t understand those who don’t do the same.
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