[BadVista Advocate] Vista owners

[Morten Juhl Johansen]

Koh Choon Lin wrote:
>>> Something I'm a bit curious about: Does anyone on this list actually have
>>> a
>>> Vista box up and running?
> 
>>From BadVista website:
> 
> "With this campaign, we will ensure that each time reporters mention
> Vista, they will be comparing it not to Windows XP or Mac OS/X, but to
> gNewSense  and other free software distributions. By making our
> criticisms from a place of freedom, we will ensure that comparisons
> focus on the ethical relationship between user and software — not only
> on which system has the better graphical transparency or the superior
> benchmark performance."
> 
> http://badvista.fsf.org/blog/article-from-the-fsf-bulletin
> 
> Is there a table or something which we can use to compare operating
> systems side by side?

I found Yegulalp's recent article here > 
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199201179&pgno=1&queryText= 
very useful. Now, Ubuntu may nit be the best example because of their 
passion for the proprietary bits, but I actually learned a few things 
from it.
My wife has bought a Vista box. I have tried it, but it slows me down. I 
have only seen things on the surface, I haven't really powerplayed with 
it. One argument I found interesting, though, was her insisting on 
getting a Windows box, because she knows it; and there are just enough 
similarities in Vista to make it feel like Windows, so when it behaves 
completely different, she is caught off guard.
For the same reason, she wishes she had bought an XP box. I had her use 
Pardus Linux, when I was playing with it, and she says changing to Vista 
and changing to Pardus is not much different.

Yours,
M

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