Don't take it all personally. Besides, if we're talking default installations of XP vs Ubuntu, XP will STILL win in bootup time. I'm completely positive on that. At least with the newest Ubuntu. I cant speak for the versions prior to 2006. But XP won on my system by a good 7-10 seconds. In terms of performance, I can't judge because I had no multi-OS applications to compare.lordofduct wrote: keywords in your statement... "tweaked out trimmed down..." versus "default"
yatta yatta
But my two gigantic gripes with Ubuntu? It can't play MP3s because it doesn't have legal rights or some shit the forum guys told me. And when I followed the instructions for installing my Geforce drivers, STEP....BY....STEP, it killed Ubuntu and never booted again. Screw that.
Plus, when it came right down to it, 90% of my activities on Windows are completely impossible on Linux, because there's no software support in those areas. You think I can flash my GBA cart in Linux? Hell no. Frameserve in Avisynth? Selfboot Dreamcast games? Play virtually any of my modern, graphically intensive games, or even effeciently emulate any game consoles above SNES? Not a chance.
Sure, Ubuntu Linux is nice if you only need a computer to type reports on, chat on GAIM, and browse the net (in a gimped fassion). But I just see no reason to when WinXP so effectively does all this, and 100x more. WinXP is just not as unstable as people make it out to be. Just get yourself behind a router, or use the decent firewall which comes with XP. Run simple cleaners for spyware, trojans, viruses, and your registry once a week. Defrag once a week. Check for Windows Updates once a month. Remove any junk services starting with Windows. You are now done. As long as you avoid shady sites, avoid shady emails, and refrain from installing every pointless app you come across, you can keep an XP install alive and healthy for years. As long as you aren't some doofus who was raised on AOL, ( which is 90% of the people who ask me to fix their computers), you will be able to follow these directions.
I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but give them credit here. It took them how many decades to craft up an awesome OS? Thanks to XP, I finally have a computer that is so stable, that I don't even hesitate to leave it in the hands of friends, (who can otherwise barely operate AIM on their own), so they can have an awesome weekend of gaming. I later ask them how they liked it and they report that not a single thing crashed or locked up. It's a good feeling, man.
