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Originally Posted by javaJake  First of all, Vista will be stable for 99.9% of all users if you install it on a system that is said to be "Vista Ready" by a manufacturer. Yes, Vista does slow things down a bit. Yea, you can probably do everything in Ubuntu too. What you are really paying for in Vista is the ease-of-use and support that most people have come to depend on.
If you care about that, and can acheive the same results in Linux, you obviously will dump it.  |
Those stupid "vista ready" logos mean
nothing - Microsoft started sending them out ages ago and manufacturers began putting them on all their machines without even thinking about it. Some of them even start losing the plot and putting them on printers and keyboards and the like... totally idiotic.
I agree that the majority market share and the sheer number of developers and users makes Windows one of the best choice... But it's just about the
only thing that Windows has that Linux or Mac does not. There's no reason that games couldn't be developed for Linux (in fact, OPENGL is usually faster than DIRECTX) other than the fact that most people use windows and publishers want to sell to the most number of people. iD software is a notable exception.
Seen Bug#1 in Launchpad?
Bug description
Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.
Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.
Steps to repeat:
1. Visit a local PC store.
What happens:
2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.
What should happen:
1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1