Just for the record, MS has way less hardware/driver support "out of the box" than linux.
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Just for the record, MS has way less hardware/driver support "out of the box" than linux.
Sure! Bwahahahaha.
Surely you are not referring to hardware under windows7? I cannot remember when I last had to search for working drivers? Ages ago, but with Linux there are always something.
Not sure what you do, but as I work in IT, I'm installing new / latest hardware all the time. Believe me, if you install a motherboard / video card that was released in the last few months, Windows 7 won't have drivers built in (obviously, it came out 2 years ago. How could it?)
But with my Linux machines, because the kernel, which contains the drivers, is updated every month or 2, I'm always current with the latest hardware. It does make life very easy.
As much as I don't like it, it looks like Apple/MAC OSX is gaining a lot of ground... Microsoft is being squeezed from all corners, so the fact that they still managed to push out an OS as awesome as Windows 7 says a lot for them. Microsoft is a great company, but long live Linux / open source ! A single OS would be great, but I really don't mind having both Windows and Ubuntu/debian in my home/office ! =)
Yet another "Windows/MS is dead" article from Mr. Otter, continuing to drag out this age old argument as if attempting to convince himself "No really, honest, it's the winner! No really!".
My argument is, WHO CARES!?
My argument is, WHO CARES!?
People always argue this one.... But I don't think you can compare. Imagine what Linux would be like if the same budget was spent that Microsoft spent on Windows.
More and more hardware manufacturers seem to be providing Linux drivers for their products..
More and more hardware manufacturers seem to be providing Linux drivers for their products..
In my opinion, at the moment, Windows 7 > Ubuntu > Windows Vista > Win XP..
That's where I'm at now, but I have been using Windows from 3.1 -> 98SE -> XP -> Vista -> Windows 7,
so maybe if I'd spend that long in Linux I wouldn't be saying the same thing!
If the amount of available software for Windows was the same as Ubuntu, I would choose Ubuntu for sure!
That's where I'm at now, but I have been using Windows from 3.1 -> 98SE -> XP -> Vista -> Windows 7,
so maybe if I'd spend that long in Linux I wouldn't be saying the same thing!
If the amount of available software for Windows was the same as Ubuntu, I would choose Ubuntu for sure!
Elimentals
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Windows won the desktop, looong ago before Linux was even born with a simple "law" called Microsoft tax.
But linux is on the servers, on the routers, on the fax machines, on the various NAS devices on the phones, in the new PC bios on the TV's, on the PVR's in the airplanes you fly on the medical equipment in the hospitals, well basically Linux is everywhere.
If you want to go per device Linux would outnumber Windows easy. Today the problem is that more and more things start to happen away from the desktops and that is a real problem Microsoft is trying to address. We will see how good they address it with Mango or Windows 8 in the coming months/years, for now they losing like a blood red Ferrari with 4 flat tires at the F1 semi finals.
But linux is on the servers, on the routers, on the fax machines, on the various NAS devices on the phones, in the new PC bios on the TV's, on the PVR's in the airplanes you fly on the medical equipment in the hospitals, well basically Linux is everywhere.
If you want to go per device Linux would outnumber Windows easy. Today the problem is that more and more things start to happen away from the desktops and that is a real problem Microsoft is trying to address. We will see how good they address it with Mango or Windows 8 in the coming months/years, for now they losing like a blood red Ferrari with 4 flat tires at the F1 semi finals.
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Meh, they're operating systems. Only weirdos and losers care enough about them to get excited. It's nice to have a choice between different OS's depending on your needs.
This is NOT war.
War:
"War is an openly declared state of organized conflict, typified by extreme aggression, societal disruption, and high mortality"
Mortality:
"Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in some population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit time."
So this "war" refers to humans and not operating systems, so let's just call it a conflict of judgement of which one is better, rather, old chap?
/facepalm
Look, I like Windoze, but like I'm about 2 years older than Linus, and I think he is doing a good job. Microsoft should release a driver update pack of about 100GB every now and then.
Nahhh ! They do need to radically overall their whole hardware software update support which is f*rgin ' SLOW !!
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pkid
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Everyone should use what works for them. In the end a computing device is just a tool. Whatever helps you get the job done best.
You obviously don't live in SA? When your cloud next lands in SA have a look at the cost of a data connection and data itself! I did some work for American companies who wanted me to do just about everything online. I did, but they had to pay for the data cost. They were BLEATING!
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+1 Sums it up, but what do you see as different between Linux (on servers) and Windows (on enterprise servers) ?
The only real fact in the article was substantiated by http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8
The rest is guesswork, quoting individuals working for Linux. Alastair, give it up, you make us
In fact, Linux is losing market share : http://www.netmarketshare.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9
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+1 Sums it up, but what do you see as different between Linux (on servers) and Windows (on enterprise servers) ?
The only real fact in the article was substantiated by http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8
The rest is guesswork, quoting individuals working for Linux. Alastair, give it up, you make us
In fact, Linux is losing market share : http://www.netmarketshare.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9
When I say enterprise servers, I'm talking about applications that run on MS servers that don't have decent open source competition, yet. Specifically Exchange and Sharepoint. C# and .NET are also becoming huge in Enterprise application development.
Linux is still king when it comes to the web, though. Most sites run on some kind of LAMP stack.