Windows is buggy and slow lets buy a Mac

[koshman]

What exactly does it mean when say an OS is "boring"?
I've always thought it is an advantage when the OS doesn't get in your way when you're working.

BTW, I'm using Tiger on the first Icebook 500MHz G3 and it is pretty slow. It's quite interesting that you don't actually see the slowness - all the animations, transitions etc. are smooth, but you wait a lot on apps startup etc.

[koshman]

@ fishy fiz: I can't agree that modern Linux distros take up as much HDD space as Windows. Most of them still have CD distributions and even these include basic software that Win doesn't (apart from IE...). When you install a whole DVD distro of Ubuntu, e.g., it may take  a big chunk of of your drive, but as far as basic software goes you're practically set - office package, a decent browser, media player etc. are all included. For Windows you need, what, 10GBs and THEN you start adding the software.

[koshman]

@ fishy fiz: I'm not talking about Ubuntu 2001, I'm comparing Linux distros today with the up to date version of Win, ie. W7. I'm sure there were full blown distros in 2001 under 300MB (well, there still are - Puppy, DSL...) so using XP as a point for comparison isn't really fair.

[koshman]

Ok

[koshman]

@ fishy fiz: just what I was going to write. W7 is basically slimmed down Vista and everyone's raving about it like it was W3.1 -> W95 move... Wake up, Vista is not evil incarnate and W7 is not the greatest thing since sliced bread...