Vista vs. the Gibbon

ricegf writes: If you had 7 computers running various versions of Windows and Linux, on which machine would you choose to do most of your work? Rupert Goodwins describes his experience thus: 'So here's the funny thing. I've used Windows since 1.0. I've lived through the bad times of Windows/386 and ME, and the good times of NT 3.51 and 2K. I know XP if not backwards, then with a degree of familiarity that only middle-aged co-dependents can afford each other. Then how come I'm so much more at home with Ubuntu than Vista?'

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[ultranova]

If you had 7 computers running various versions of Windows and Linux, on which machine would you choose to do most of your work?

Any Linux. I typically have 15 workspaces (virtual desktops), containing a total of over 100 browser windows displaying various information, eclipse, text editors, Gimp, Inkscape, etc., with FoldingAtHome and a compile or two running on the background, all on a 1GHz machine with a gigabyte of memory and a heavily hand-patched Red Hat Linux 9. This, of course, is not taking into

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[ultranova]

You know theres this browser called Firefox, has this nifty feature called tabbed browsing ;)

You can only fit a few dozen tabs on a single Firefox window before they overflow to the right. That's why you still need multiple browser windows, even on Firefox. Furthermore, the tabs form a flat list, so finding the correct one when there's many open is a pain, while opening multiple windows lets you scatter them to different desktops, giving a nice hiearachy: desktop -> browser window -> tab.

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[The Iso]

Current events are depressing. We need more Linux-Windows comparisons.