Can someone do a Linux vs windows comparison for me?

From my (rather limited) experience with Ubuntu 7.04, the only reason to use Windows is if you play games.

As far as I can see, Ubuntu does everything else just as well as Windows.

The only thing I haven't tried is getting 5.1 sound working on a Creative X-Fi.

I've switched my Tablet PC over to Ubuntu completely and am very happy with it. I tried Vista, but just yuck!
 
OK, then, is what we are saying here that the software decides what OS we run? I am stuck currently with a number of Access Databases and an accounts package that only runs in Windows (the company doesn't make any other versions) so have to stay with Windows for them. However, I really want to move awasy from Windows otherwise.

Now my problem is that I want to be able to access my files from whatever I chose instead of Windows and Windows too. My machine is formatted with NTFS and if I dual boot with Linuxm say, all that data is inaccessible. If I run a separate machine, I can get it all via the network. Is there a way to dual boot and keep the data accessible to Linux and Windows?
 
Ok, I have answered my own question. Yesterday, I loaded the Ubuntu V6 CD and it did nothing about my machine. Today I booted up with a v 7.04 Ubuntu and all my windws file system is available to use straight away. This is might impressive.

Equally impressive is that I can browse our local net work and use the Internet from the CD without any work at all! I'm about to work out how to dual boot this sytem. I'll post back.
 
There's a decent Ubuntu vs Vista comparison here on InformationWeek, seems to provide a fair look at both operating systems. Personally I use Debian as that was the version I got started with when playing about with Linux.

For accessing data on a Linux/Windows machine you could either have a FAT32 partition on your box for data or you could try setting up a Samba file server on another machine?

For gaming people could have a look at Cedega from TransGaming, although it has a monthly fee for Windows games support.
 
Or if you only want read-only access for your NTFS partitions, then Linux will handle that safely (as you've seen from the Ubuntu Live CD). You can (and I do) use NTFS-3G to get read/write access to an NTFS partition, but some people are a little hesitant about the stability of writing to the partition from Linux. Personally I've never had any problems, but I'm doing this at home rather than working on production data for a business, etc...
 
daven1986 said:
tbh, it isn't the best OS. yes it is nice but the best OS would be a combination of linux, windows and OSX.

take the prettiness and graphics of OSX, the games of windows, and the price of linux and then choice apps from each. but of course this won't ever happen.
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so in other words, Ubuntu + Beryl + Wine/Cedega
 
I started using Linux a few years go (Red Hat 5 I think?) and found it hard to get to grips with. I returned to it a while back with SuSE and then Ubuntu. Things were looking a lot better. Now I run the latest Ubuntu and I find I far prefer it to Windows. The odd thing is my Windows partition has some annoying problems such as occasional pauses when playing back large mpg files, yet Linux is silky smooth. I also find the multi threading on Linux to be far better than Windows.

Out of the box Ubuntu configures everything for me, including my wireless card. But Windows needs me to download and install drivers. Surely that's not right? I thought Windows was meant to be easier than Linux?

I still keep a Windows partition for games. My wife has a Powermac so I get to use OSX too. But I really do prefer Linux now. I still struggle with a lot of things but the latest Ubuntu has made it very, very easy (want nvidia drivers? just click... want whizzy gui effects... just click).

One of the most attractive things about Linux for me is that every few months I install the latest version of Ubuntu and get loads of nice shiny new stuff for free :)
 
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