Dear Angelo,
This posting sounds a bit like a flame bait.
It is well known that MS benchmark Linux. The two systems do influence
each other in many ways.
Just think of the look and feel of KDE and the fact that ASP supporst
Perl-like regexps.
As to how obvious the obvious is: you mention ease of installation,
presumebly you mean ease of installation
on an avarage PC bought recently with a plain vanilla configuration and
periferals. I wonder what the results
would be like if you compared installing on cd-rom less or screen less
workstations.
What i'm tring to say is that the word "Wins" does not make much sense
when comparing different categories.
If you race a Landrover against a ferrari the ferrari wins! ( as long as
you are not racing up selmun hill)
Hmmm I wonder what my girl friend would think if she knew you called her
a geek :-P she uses
gnome without any hassle! and the version of linux you are looking for
is probabbly a
KDE setup. It will not run windows applications of course (excluding the
use of WINE)
but then agin I'd like a version of windows with that extra feature
called "no cost" too.
Thanks for the feedback anyway
Philip
Angelo Dalli wrote:
Hi guys,
just had an interesting chat with some people working for Microsoft
Research... (whom I shall not name)
And surprise, surprise -- they actually do benchmark Windows against Linux :-) In fact
they have a "Linux Advisory Group" within MS :-)
Their results just confirm the obvious: in certain areas, like storage handling
and uptime reliability, Linux wins. On usability and ease of installation,
Windows wins.
I would love to have a version of Linux that can support Windows applications
seamlessly and that can allow normal users to actually *use it* without all the
hassle involved, but I think that for now Linux will remain a server and/or
geek oriented OS.
Cheers,
Angelo Dalli
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