Is Ubuntu better than Vista?

[Jake Malone - MVP/MUT]

Dell charges more for Ubuntu than Vista
Open sorcery

By INQUIRER Newsdesk: Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 1:09 PM


DELL HAPPILY ANNOUNCED a new Ubuntu-powered system a couple of days ago.

The penguin posse was delighted, of course, until it found that the
once-direct only seller seems to be charging more for machines sporting
the open source OS than for those sporting Vista.

As far as we can tell, on Dell's cumbersome UK website the price of the
cheapest Inspiron 1525 with Vista home premium is £359.

The same specification machine with Ubuntu is £379.

There is a cheaper version of the Ubuntu system but it has a lower
specification.

Here are some URLs for you to fiddle with:

Ubuntu

Vista

No wonder Dell loves Ubuntu. µ

 

[KevinD]

I run Ubuntu on an old PC I have at home because I lost the Windows install
CD and wanted to use it for back up. My answer to your question is HEL* NO!

Ubuntu is fun to play with if you are a techno geek and there are some
applications written for it that work just fine, but most of the stuff
reminds me of Windows 95 or DOS. If you are just going to use it for a Web
Browser / Email / or Word Processor (Open Office is good) things will work
just fine.

However if you want to watch DVD's, play music, Sync with mobile devices,
network with your home Network, edit photos......then things get much more
complicated. You can dig up Applications for many of these things, but for
me none of them appear to be as polished or stable as what you get with
Vista. AND one thing that I find really irritating is how often you end up
working in "terminal" mode trying to write some cryptic code at the command
line to make changes to the system or install software. I haven't opened a
DOS prompt on my PC for at least a dozen years and I can barely remember how
any of that worked.

Get your Dell PC with Vista Loaded and then install Ubuntu under Virtual
machine......ITS FREE so why not. Play with it for awhile and if you really
like it wipe our your Vista image and go Ubuntu all the way. You have
nothing to loose that way.


"Jake Malone - MVP/MUT" <jako@azurious.net> wrote in message
news:47bcbe6f$0$8647$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> Dell charges more for Ubuntu than Vista
> Open sorcery
>
> By INQUIRER Newsdesk: Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 1:09 PM
>
>
> DELL HAPPILY ANNOUNCED a new Ubuntu-powered system a couple of days ago.
>
> The penguin posse was delighted, of course, until it found that the
> once-direct only seller seems to be charging more for machines sporting
> the open source OS than for those sporting Vista.
>
> As far as we can tell, on Dell's cumbersome UK website the price of the
> cheapest Inspiron 1525 with Vista home premium is £359.
>
> The same specification machine with Ubuntu is £379.
>
> There is a cheaper version of the Ubuntu system but it has a lower
> specification.
>
> Here are some URLs for you to fiddle with:
>
> Ubuntu
>
> Vista
>
> No wonder Dell loves Ubuntu. µ

 

[Jan Wielemaker]

On 2008-02-22, KevinD <kjdinoc@msn.com> wrote:
>
> I run Ubuntu on an old PC I have at home because I lost the Windows install
> CD and wanted to use it for back up. My answer to your question is HEL* NO!
>
> Ubuntu is fun to play with if you are a techno geek and there are some
> applications written for it that work just fine, but most of the stuff
> reminds me of Windows 95 or DOS. If you are just going to use it for a Web
> Browser / Email / or Word Processor (Open Office is good) things will work
> just fine.
>
> However if you want to watch DVD's, play music, Sync with mobile devices,
> network with your home Network, edit photos......then things get much more
> complicated. You can dig up Applications for many of these things, but for
> me none of them appear to be as polished or stable as what you get with
> Vista. AND one thing that I find really irritating is how often you end up
> working in "terminal" mode trying to write some cryptic code at the command
> line to make changes to the system or install software. I haven't opened a
> DOS prompt on my PC for at least a dozen years and I can barely remember how
> any of that worked.

I have the impression you are comparing Vista to a 5 year old Ubuntu.
Surely my SuSE 10.3 Linux does all these things without any terminal
interaction and with quite nicely looking and friendly applications
(even the Gimp is getting less geeky). Gaming is the weakest point of
Linux.

> Get your Dell PC with Vista Loaded and then install Ubuntu under Virtual
> machine......ITS FREE so why not. Play with it for awhile and if you really
> like it wipe our your Vista image and go Ubuntu all the way. You have
> nothing to loose that way.

One of the nice things about Linux is that its performance is generally
a lot smoother, especially under some load. Running it under a virtual
machine looses that. If you want to play, install as dual boot machine.

Cheers --- Jan

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I have always preferred Suse 10.x too.

"Jan Wielemaker" <jan@nospam.ct.xs4all.nl> wrote in message
news:slrnfrvoh6.8to.jan@ct.lan...
> On 2008-02-22, KevinD <kjdinoc@msn.com> wrote:
>>
>> I run Ubuntu on an old PC I have at home because I lost the Windows
>> install
>> CD and wanted to use it for back up. My answer to your question is HEL*
>> NO!
>>
>> Ubuntu is fun to play with if you are a techno geek and there are some
>> applications written for it that work just fine, but most of the stuff
>> reminds me of Windows 95 or DOS. If you are just going to use it for a
>> Web
>> Browser / Email / or Word Processor (Open Office is good) things will
>> work
>> just fine.
>>
>> However if you want to watch DVD's, play music, Sync with mobile devices,
>> network with your home Network, edit photos......then things get much
>> more
>> complicated. You can dig up Applications for many of these things, but
>> for
>> me none of them appear to be as polished or stable as what you get with
>> Vista. AND one thing that I find really irritating is how often you end
>> up
>> working in "terminal" mode trying to write some cryptic code at the
>> command
>> line to make changes to the system or install software. I haven't opened
>> a
>> DOS prompt on my PC for at least a dozen years and I can barely remember
>> how
>> any of that worked.
>
> I have the impression you are comparing Vista to a 5 year old Ubuntu.
> Surely my SuSE 10.3 Linux does all these things without any terminal
> interaction and with quite nicely looking and friendly applications
> (even the Gimp is getting less geeky). Gaming is the weakest point of
> Linux.
>
>> Get your Dell PC with Vista Loaded and then install Ubuntu under Virtual
>> machine......ITS FREE so why not. Play with it for awhile and if you
>> really
>> like it wipe our your Vista image and go Ubuntu all the way. You have
>> nothing to loose that way.
>
> One of the nice things about Linux is that its performance is generally
> a lot smoother, especially under some load. Running it under a virtual
> machine looses that. If you want to play, install as dual boot machine.
>
> Cheers --- Jan

 

[Tony Sperling]

Ditto - but Gentoo is awesome too!


Tony. . .


"Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:9499BEDF-69A1-41A6-8873-3B502C42EC35@microsoft.com...
>I have always preferred Suse 10.x too.
>
> "Jan Wielemaker" <jan@nospam.ct.xs4all.nl> wrote in message
> news:slrnfrvoh6.8to.jan@ct.lan...
>> On 2008-02-22, KevinD <kjdinoc@msn.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I run Ubuntu on an old PC I have at home because I lost the Windows
>>> install
>>> CD and wanted to use it for back up. My answer to your question is HEL*
>>> NO!
>>>
>>> Ubuntu is fun to play with if you are a techno geek and there are some
>>> applications written for it that work just fine, but most of the stuff
>>> reminds me of Windows 95 or DOS. If you are just going to use it for a
>>> Web
>>> Browser / Email / or Word Processor (Open Office is good) things will
>>> work
>>> just fine.
>>>
>>> However if you want to watch DVD's, play music, Sync with mobile
>>> devices,
>>> network with your home Network, edit photos......then things get much
>>> more
>>> complicated. You can dig up Applications for many of these things, but
>>> for
>>> me none of them appear to be as polished or stable as what you get with
>>> Vista. AND one thing that I find really irritating is how often you end
>>> up
>>> working in "terminal" mode trying to write some cryptic code at the
>>> command
>>> line to make changes to the system or install software. I haven't
>>> opened a
>>> DOS prompt on my PC for at least a dozen years and I can barely remember
>>> how
>>> any of that worked.
>>
>> I have the impression you are comparing Vista to a 5 year old Ubuntu.
>> Surely my SuSE 10.3 Linux does all these things without any terminal
>> interaction and with quite nicely looking and friendly applications
>> (even the Gimp is getting less geeky). Gaming is the weakest point of
>> Linux.
>>
>>> Get your Dell PC with Vista Loaded and then install Ubuntu under Virtual
>>> machine......ITS FREE so why not. Play with it for awhile and if you
>>> really
>>> like it wipe our your Vista image and go Ubuntu all the way. You have
>>> nothing to loose that way.
>>
>> One of the nice things about Linux is that its performance is generally
>> a lot smoother, especially under some load. Running it under a virtual
>> machine looses that. If you want to play, install as dual boot machine.
>>
>> Cheers --- Jan
>