Shocking: “Vista sucks”
April 5th, 2007 by joby
Well I’m paraphrasing. HardOCP’s evaluation after 30 days:
It’s a lemon…
Based on my personal experiences with Vista over a 30 day period, I found it to be a dangerously unstable operating system, which has caused me to lose data. The 64-bit version is slightly better (which, frankly, surprised the hell out of us and makes us wonder if Microsoft didn’t make a mistake in choosing to only distribute Home Premium 32-bit in the retail channel), but it still has stability problems.
The review of Ubuntu is much more positive:
However, for those who stick it out throughout the learning curve period, the rewards are great.
Linux has some glaring flaws but it also has some amazing capabilities that can’t be found anywhere else - at least without spending a hell of a lot of money.
I find that there are some things I just can’t do in Linux – notably, gaming and Photoshop. For me, these are two very important tasks. I also find that there’s much more that I can do in Linux that I can’t in Windows. I’m mostly referring to the vast levels of consumer-oriented free software - software that I often didn’t even know existed - whose equivalent often is price-prohibitive for most to obtain for Windows.
I’ve been exclusively using Ubuntu on my work and personal laptops for many months (after using Gentoo for several months) and am completely happy. I run into an occasional WiFi issue but those are few and far between. I love using Linux.
Hat tip to Slashdot.