I have been using computers sens the age of 5 (15+ years). That is ,k. Windows9x/ME.XP and Vista ( which I hated and promptly ditched it and ran back to XP). Not to mention flip flopping through every Linux distribution From gentoo to Fedora and every distribution in between The Irony in the distribution hopping is that I started out it on Ubuntu back in 2005 (15 years old) after ten years of usind dos,windows 3.1, windows9X/me and XP and Vista ( HATED IT WITH A VENGEANCE) and running back to Ubuntu or Even Debian.

Pros Linux:

Free

Works on every Plat form Sparc to Itainium and every platform in between

Detected My HP Photo Smart C4200 series 4280 model series Printer and Dell 2005 FPW Flat Panel monitor

Out of the Box printer and File Sharing with Mac OS ( Wins=dows requires several hours of registry hacking.

CONS Linux :

More configuration required

Possibility of IRQ and or DMA address conflict or faliure to boot (mostly pre 2.6 build kernel.

Pros Windows:

Point and click

More Software available

Lions Share of the Market

Cons windows:

Need for a Six to 150 dollar a year security sofware up date subscriptions

Annoying continuous Nagging from Windows Update

SPY WARE

OUT SOURCING OF JOBS TO THIRD WORLD Countries

You coming back to Ubuntu (GNU/Linux) shows painless installation and ease of use must be getting better

BTW: Is Mandravia a new fork of Mandriva?

Well personally I don't mind having more configurations, it could indicate that you have more control over your system. Personally I don't think point and click is really a pro. I recently switched to Xmonad window manager, and it's made me realize how inefficient point and click is. I won't say it's completely useless, but most of the time you don't really need a mouse. I mean you do know the software installed, and launching them from either the terminal or dmenu requires you to simply know the name of the application, much simpler than having to go to a menu, possibly submenus, and then finally clicking on the application.

So I guess to me that would be two more pros for Linux

The only advantages Windows has is more software availability. However even then, it's not really all that significant. The only reason I still have Windows is to have an office suite (Microsoft Office) and games. If there were more and better games in Linux and people used pdf's more, I'd ditch Windows completely.

Nothing wrong with outsourcing to 3rd world countries, why should'nt people there get to have jobs too? I mean, capitalisms alwasy talking up this 'trickle-down' effect, let's see it then, maybe one day they won't be 3rd world countries anymore. More outsourcing I say. And more participatory social-democracy too. Yaay!

I don't know whether I love Ubuntu yet. After all it's only been 5 days.

But, So far, it's been a fun and really good learning experience.


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Ubuntu is linux,
(well other Linuxes may certainly be more stable.)

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