ZDNet UK: Ubuntu vs Vista Smackdown
Rupert Goodwins blogs for ZDNet UK “Vista versus the Gutsy Gibbon…”
Goodwins is clearly a hardcore computer user going back decades, and currently has seven functional machines with a mix of operating systems. However, he is becoming more and more focused on using Linux as his primary platform.
“How come I’m so much more at home with Ubuntu than Vista? It boils down to one abiding impression: Ubuntu goes out of its way to get out of your way, even if it doesn’t succeed all the time. Vista goes out of its way to be Vista and enforce the Vista way. You must conform regardless of the implications.”
Call me curmudgeonly, call me prejudiced, call me atypical, but isn’t computing all about doing what users want?”
November 5th, 2007 at 11:52 am
You’re curmudgeonly, you’re prejudiced, you’re atypical.
Computing is all about what shareholders want. Anybody caught using software for free effectively has an “off-balance sheet liability” or something like that, so therefore owes us some money [for using software for free].
“One day son, all of this will be, ummm, MINE”. Muhahaha.