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Warning: The following post is written by a Windows fanboy who attempted to keep this post non-biased. I post what I feel and have observed, which may not be 100% fact as I don't have the time to spend researching company history and how each os is different from the next.[/size]
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Now they want us to pay again for 7, an OS whose virtue is (did you guess?) that it runs almost as well as XP!. And everybody will run to buy it. People REALLY deserve micro$oft.
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Not hard to spot a Linux fanboy. Typical with adding the $ into Microsoft and/or Windows. Yes, I'm a Windows fanboy but I also understand the needs/uses for other operating systems and can think logically about why they are around. To the fanboy above, I wanted to post some benchmarks I came across. Sorry I don't have the link to the review.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/i/z5/rv/2009/...tartup_he2.jpg
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/i/z5/rv/2009/...tartup_le2.jpg
Mac gets hate because it's expensive. I imagine this has a lot to do with R&D. They take a lot of time deciding/making the parts that will go in their computers so the end user gets something very reliable and they get less warranty calls.
Linux gets hate because there are still a lot of things in it that require the use of terminal commands. We're almost in 2010, you would think we could get a little more GUI use in.
Windows gets hate because the infamous BSOD and you gotta pay a pretty price for it, the registry and apparent stealing of ideas.
While I can't comment too much on Mac and Linux, I will say that I've tried Ubuntu a few times in the past and it was alright. The 2nd time I used it, I put in a password when I installed it, a very easy to remember one, and when it started up, it asked for my password and I put it in and it said wrong password. After a dozen attempts or so, I formatted. I'm not blaming this on Linux or Ubuntu but it's these little things that get to people. I would happily dual-boot Ubuntu with Windows 7 but the main problem is syncing data. So I use Ubuntu for browsing the web and chat and then I want to boot up Windows to play a game or something, what if I want to ALT+TAB and google something? It would be a challenge to keep all my browsing history, bookmarks and settings, and chatlogs synced between Ubuntu and Windows. Especially having to use different programs in each OS.
Windows (and I'm not saying other OS's don't) does everything nicely. Windows 7 really redeems Microsoft and has some awesome features that make it much better. Vista wasn't bad at all, one of the big problems was that manufacturers didn't/couldn't make drivers in time for the release. I know, I was one of those people that had enormous problems with Vista on "older" hardware. For everyone that seems to hate Windows (especially because of Vista), seriously,
give Windows 7 RTM a try. It's not that hard to find and IMO is legal to download and use for the trial period as long as you don't hack/crack it to activate it. I truly believe Windows is a victim of it's own success. People see a BSOD and think "Windows is crap". In my eyes there's 2 kinds of BSOD. The first and I would imagine most popular would be hardware failure which is obviously not Windows' fault. Personally, I would rather see a BSOD than a hole in my motherboard where the CPU used to be. (Reference to overheating) The other kind of BSOD would be some kind of software level where a driver fails or a critical file isn't found. This kind of BSOD doesn't happen without human interaction. Either a 3rd party program install or 3rd party driver or someone messing about where they shouldn't be. I think I can safely say this for all OS's that
the majority of problems is either caused by the user or 3rd party applications, all OS's are stable and work great out of the box.
I see someone talking about nForce... That was my first experience with Vista on the nForce4 platform. That chipset (and several other NVidia chipsets) are sooo problematic. I couldn't run Vista x64 with 4GB of ram without my onboard ethernet crapping out and stalling my computer because of bad implementation by Nvidia. Also using 4GB with x64 would cause major problems with the PCI controller causing my sound card to go nuts in games. I have since boughten a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P and I love it and will never go back to NVidia chipsets.
Eh... this post is getting a bit long and I kinda lost my train of thought. Hope I contributed to this conversation with reasoning