Basically, there is no single operating system that I like, though I do prefer Windows. Mac is out of the question completely and Linux is always there for me when Windows breaks, so I'm going to analyse both operating systems from my point of view then let you discuss, hopefully this poll will remain retard free, but I doubt it very much. Anyway, my case studies are from Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux.
Windows XP
Ubuntu Linux
Now it's your turn, slug it out for your favorite operating system. See if this debate can be resolved here on LOMCN.
Windows XP
- The main point that gives Windows the upperhand is easily the compatability. Every large company designs their software exclusively for Windows e.g Steinberg, Adobe, etc. Most other companies design primarily for Windows and bring out their latest and best versions for Windows with other OS users lagging behind with inferior versions.
- Useability. Short of the completely computer illiterate, absolutely anyone can use Windows for what they want to use it for, most people only want to use computers for chatting, emails, internet browsing and music downloads. Anyone could do this with ease on a Windows system.
- Windows and gaming go pretty much hand in hand, all high end games, medium and low end games run on the system, all the way back to the archaic games such as the original Elder Scrolls games, to the latest, Oblivion with decent hardware.
- Unlike with Linux, you can download new software and the Automatic Updates will no doubt have kept your system up to date to run it, alot of Windows programs often come with the required .dll files if it is unlikely that users will already have them. With linux you'll find yourself having to manually update your system even though you've just done an automatic update 5 minutes ago, downloading series of files such as gcc4, libxml etc. etc. just to get a program as simple as aMSN to run.
- Audio, even without codecs, you can get good quality audio through a Windows system, allowing multiple programs to use audio, unlike in Linux where if you have a song running, it will not play MSN alerts and with some Linux versions of MSN, e.g kMess, once it's running you will not be able to listen to songs, get audio out of youtube or have any other sound at all.
Ubuntu Linux
- The first thing that appeals to me about Linux (I am only referring to GNOME), is the fact that even the most bog standard of graphic user interfaces are better than all standard Windows GUI's and most custom ones.
- Incompatability as an advantage? Well yes, you will find, unless you are incredibly stupid, you will experience absolutely no issues with Viruses, Spyware, Adware, Malware, etc.
- The support is amazing. You can get onto an IRC channel and within an hour, no matter how serious your issue, as long as it is an OS related issue, will be resolved within the hour.
- Repositories. They are amazing, if you want a piece of software, in alot of cases you won't have to go to a website, browse around and finally download it, you simply open the terminal and type in sudo apt-get install "software name" and there you go.
Now it's your turn, slug it out for your favorite operating system. See if this debate can be resolved here on LOMCN.
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