Windows 7 is enough to kill Linux on the desktop
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 09:57.
FOR THE PAST three years I have been a Linux fan-boy using Ubuntu most of the time and Windows XP when I needed to play games or run CS desktop lay out stuff.
In a bid to focus my bile on something other than Apple for a bit I decided to play with the new Windows 7 beta. I was disappointed. It was pretty good and, if I am right, could result in the move away from Voleware to Linux and OSX being stopped in in its tracks.
After installation, everything was in place and it looked really good. The security nagging is about the same level as Ubuntu.
After years of working on XP and Ubuntu you forget what a decent graphics interface looks like. Vole has spent some money on it and it has several features that make it easy to navigate.
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Sounds nice, but not for me
So it says that 2GB of Ram is near MINIMUM? And non-SATA drives too? Ouch!
Guess that means I'm not going to Windows 7 (or Vista) with any of MY machines!
And all this talk about a "nice looking desktop" is comparing it to Ubuntu. Now Ubuntu looks pretty nice but why not compare it to KDE 4? A well-crafted distro running KDE 4.2+ can do as much and more than Windows 7 without the uber-hardware requirements.
How come nobody takes a look at THAT?!
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the problem is most users don't know what it is,
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Another Windows 7 will kill Linux article
The net is full of these articles at the moment. The authors all fail to understand the reason people use Linux in the first place. It is about freedom to setup your computer anyway YOU want, to hand around software without worrying about copyright, to change you hardware a hundred times and not need to reinstall or beg Microsoft to reactivate. It is also about freedom from malware. And it is free of cost.
No matter how good Windows 7 is perceived to be, it will fail on these criteria. Linux users will stay Linux users and each year a few million more will join the ranks. Linux may never pass 5% of computer users, but it will not get killed either.
GregE
Melbourne, Australia