[LUNI] Vista v/s Linux matchup

[Christopher S. Susi]

"DesktopLinux.com columnist and operating system curmudgeon ..."

Gosh, this is like wondering how the Reverend Jimmy Jonah of the Bleeding
Mary Parish will conclude his sermon debating Evolution vs. The Good Lord &
The Almighty Creation.  

He spends considerable time harping on BitLocker, which is moot in my
opinion.  As a windows user, I will use BitLocker as much as I use Windows
Drive Double Space... never.  I think this will end up being used far less
frequently for the obvious reasons discussed already.  I'd rather have a
separate encrypted file that I can backup regularly to store my sensitive
data than locking down the whole drive permanently.  I can see IT
departments making the same conclusion.

Moving along...

"While Linux often has trouble with WiFi, thanks again to proprietary
drivers," ... haha I love how he needs to place the blame elsewhere.  It's
not because Linux doesn't have enough market share to make it economically
worth while for the WiFi makers to make adequate drivers.  

My commodore 64 could be on the Internet if 3Com gave me working drivers.  

Anyhow... I'm waiting for him to try connecting to Windows shares from the
perspective of a home user.  We'll see which OS excels in that one.






> -----Original Message-----
> From: luni-bounces at luni.org [mailto:luni-bounces at luni.org] On Behalf Of
> Martin Maney
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 3:03 PM
> To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: [LUNI] Vista v/s Linux matchup
> 
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 07:16:47PM +0530, Arun K. Khan wrote:
> > The author installs both Vista and Mepis Linux on the same machine and
> > does some "end user" comparison of the two.  Interestingly, Mepis Linux
> > comes out ahead on a few features.  His system is about a year old
> > (technology wise) and has 2GB of system RAM - nothing to sneeze at.
> 
> The one I like best so far, I think, is the guy (tech writer?) who's
> been running Vista since early betas.  His bottom line after "hundreds
> of hours"?  He's heartily *tired* of Vista.
> 
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