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Yep, another tech journalist is blowing the Ubuntu Horns and announcing that the fall of the walls of Microsoft Jericho is imminent. It’s the usual “it-used-to-suck-but-now-its-awesome-because-it-has-features-Windows-has-had-for-years-now” we’ve come to expect from members of the Ubuntu gospel choir. And as usual the comments are more fun than the article itself, even if there’s a surprising number of people who aren’t brainwashed.
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*With Windows 7, set your screen to a certain resolution, perform a rain dance and on rare occasion it may be necessary to slaughter your first born as a sacrifice to the gods.
Ubuntu 10.04 doesn’t need any of that. *
Really. I think he had these two mixed up.
Everything’s in the browser anyway
That maybe(except for Games and Development Applications) but what does that matter with OS i’m using.
Windows applications run on WINE
Not very well. Getting Steam or Visual Studio to work on WINE is a bitch.
Customisability beyond a Windows user’s dreams
Most Window User’s dont care.
Multi-touch is on the way
And Windows has had this for a while.
What would persuade me to ditch Windows for Ubuntu 10.04?
Something! Anything! There’s nothing!
- I don’t like the ideology behind it (in fact I disagree with it).
- I have no problem paying for windows (I can get it for free, and even if I couldn’t, I could afford it)
- Every app on linux is available on windows or there’s a better alternative (The GIMP vs Paint.Net)
- Open Office is garbage, I need good office software.
- Linux isn’t more secure than Windows 7. I have a good AV and I don’t even need it.
- I don’t need to customize every pixel of my system.
- I don’t want to choose between a douche (KDE) and a turd (GNOME). Give me one that’s any good.
- I like listening to music and watching videos on youtube, when will I be able to do both without the sound system crashing?
- I have an ATI card, the official drivers are garbage for windows and 10x worse for linux. I’ve never had a BSOD since XP, I’ve had a COMPLETELY BLUE SCREEN (of death) on ubuntu.
- I usually have files over 1 GB on my system.
- Brown is not a pleasant color.
- I like to use the latest version of most software I use. Outdated versions in repositories are a pain. PPA’s are a great way to a broken system.
- The 'most important’ thing in the OS is the bootloader, don’t give me one that can’t find the operating system it belongs to half the time. I don’t really care how pretty something I’ll only see for 5 seconds is.
- Ubuntu is not for older systems. XP runs better on older systems.
- If I wanted a mac, I’d get a mac (in fact… I DID!), ubuntu doesn’t even clone it right. Pathetic.
- Wobbly windows and rotating cubes are fun for about 2 seconds.
- I like to play games from time to time. Mac OSX has few, but good ones available. Linux has quake 3 clones.
- I do not find reinstalling every 6 months fun.
- I’m studying to be a developer. Do you expect me to live from donations? Is canonical going to hire me? I sure as hell could do a better job than everyone employed there I can tell you that.
- Is there any practical programming framework available? Qt maybe but that’s for KDE, no GNOME user wants to run Qt apps. For ubuntu (GNOME) the closest thing would be mono. I don’t want to receive hate mail for the rest of my life.
Even if I do a mix of libraries I need to choose a GUI library. I’ll be pissing off half the linux user base with my choice.
You’re making me do extra work for less. Brilliant.
- I don’t like to use the CLI. I can, but I don’t like to. Solving everything via the command line isn’t pleasant. If you can do everything in ubuntu via the GUI, then I want to know how.
- I spend most of my day staring at a computer screen. Good (non-blurry) fonts are a must.
- Did I mention I have a wireless router?
A better question is:
Why would someone in their right mind choose ubuntu over windows.
That’s a question I’d like to see answered.
“What would persuade you to ditch Windows for Ubuntu 10.04?”
Dasher, definitely Dasher:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Dasher.png
Oh ChristX, I too considered it once just for that magnificent program.
However…
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/download/win_nt/4.11/Dasher%204.11.msi
Yes… That is, in fact, Dasher for windows.
Oh, you made my day! I didn’t know that Dasher was available for Windows :O
This is going to save me so much time when I’ll type an essay or some longer letter in the future. I just can use the mouse to do so.
But now you shattered all my anticipation of Ubuntu! I am really saddened…
Seriously, I couldn’t name a single thing why I’d want Ubuntu. Not one…..
WAIT! The spinning cube! Oh yes. Definitely the 3D cube…. http://www.otakusoftware.com/deskspace/ oh, damn, too late, already exists for Windows… Wobbly windows then?
I am more amazed by this though: http://www.keithv.com/software/speechdasher/ ... hell is that useful, I mean I really do want to use speech recognition when I still need to use the mouse. Definitely an awesome invention.
You gotta love the comments on that blog
@ChristX
Oh if only windows had wobbly windows!
Such a productivity enhancement!
@Zombiechan
At least half the people there are obviously not falling for it. I guess since stallman started adding his foot cheese to the kool-aid fewer people have tried it.
I get pretty annoyed at Linux fanboys who think Windows isn’t customizable. This was my Windows desktop back when I used XPSP2: http://www.boxshots.org/screenies/4870.jpg
Yeh, okay, it’s kinda tacky by today’s standards, but still. It’s possible to make Windows look almost totally different, and all the tools I used were free too.
“Oh if only windows had wobbly windows!”
Actually Longhorn did at some point in 2003, but Microsoft figured that they’re god damn annoying as hell.
@ChristX
I know, and they are right :)
spinning cube for Windows? how about filmstrip? flip? or walls? need multiple desktops for windows? www.dexpot.de
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