Comments on: Vista vs. Kubuntu Linux (the saga continues) http://trustworthy.net/blog/2007/02/vista-vs-kubuntu-linux-the-saga-continues/ Advocating software you can trust. Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:38:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: steven http://trustworthy.net/blog/2007/02/vista-vs-kubuntu-linux-the-saga-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-24 steven Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:11:19 +0000 http://trustworthy.net/blog/2007/02/the-saga-continues-vista-vs-linux-out-of-the-box/#comment-24 Hey Nick! You think? This is good Nick. Venting is good. Breathe in... Breathe out... Ok, with regard to the those novel gadgets however, did you every see such a nicely designed wall clock? I mean I actually left it there for awhile because it looked so nice! In the end I got rid of the whole side bar because it was taking up an inch and a half of screen real estate down the whole right side of my screen for 1.5 square inches of value? And while I'm thinking of it, that built in RSS gadget was the first thing I thought I'd try and in the process it became the first thing to go. Why? Because it required you to use Internet Explorer to browse to where ever I happened to be browsing with Firefox at the time just so I could create the RSS feed for the gadget! Anyone care to guess how long it took me to decide I didn't like that? ;) Hey Nick!

You think? This is good Nick. Venting is good. Breathe in… Breathe out…

Ok, with regard to the those novel gadgets however, did you every see such a nicely designed wall clock? I mean I actually left it there for awhile because it looked so nice! In the end I got rid of the whole side bar because it was taking up an inch and a half of screen real estate down the whole right side of my screen for 1.5 square inches of value?

And while I’m thinking of it, that built in RSS gadget was the first thing I thought I’d try and in the process it became the first thing to go. Why? Because it required you to use Internet Explorer to browse to where ever I happened to be browsing with Firefox at the time just so I could create the RSS feed for the gadget! Anyone care to guess how long it took me to decide I didn’t like that? ;)

]]> By: Nick Peters http://trustworthy.net/blog/2007/02/vista-vs-kubuntu-linux-the-saga-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Nick Peters Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:47:01 +0000 http://trustworthy.net/blog/2007/02/the-saga-continues-vista-vs-linux-out-of-the-box/#comment-23 I actually setup a system with Vista today for a client and it was the most annoying thing EVER! There were so many pop-ups/alerts when I tried to install/uninstall programs and delete shortcuts. I see no reason to ever upgrade to a future version of Windows again. It's all very confusing to a first time user who needs to shut down/restart their computer (the power button has been turned into a sleep function). I like the addition of "Gadgets" though. How did they ever think of something so clever? I'm also impressed with the media center features of Vista, but we'll see what the open source community develops in response ;-) I actually setup a system with Vista today for a client and it was the most annoying thing EVER! There were so many pop-ups/alerts when I tried to install/uninstall programs and delete shortcuts. I see no reason to ever upgrade to a future version of Windows again.
It’s all very confusing to a first time user who needs to shut down/restart their computer (the power button has been turned into a sleep function).
I like the addition of “Gadgets” though. How did they ever think of something so clever?
I’m also impressed with the media center features of Vista, but we’ll see what the open source community develops in response ;-)

]]> By: Nick Peters http://trustworthy.net/blog/2007/02/vista-vs-kubuntu-linux-the-saga-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Nick Peters Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:00:11 +0000 http://trustworthy.net/blog/2007/02/the-saga-continues-vista-vs-linux-out-of-the-box/#comment-22 You forgot the cost differences and the difficulty to upgrade from the previous versions of the respective operating systems ;-) You forgot the cost differences and the difficulty to upgrade from the previous versions of the respective operating systems ;-)

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