Comment Re:One question (Score 0) 158
User Interface
Freespire polished the kde interface a bit. Its still kde though and has 9 million options. You have to dig through 500 menus, pulldowns, and other random configuration items to do the simplest thing. When you right-click on the desktop there has to be at least 12-15 options on there. Ubuntu's Gnome UI is much more streamlined and polished.
Score +1 for Ubuntu.
Graphics
Freespire doesn't realize my graphics card and or monitor is capable of greater than 1024x768 resolution. I can't change it to anything higher via the gui whereas Ubuntu did automatically.
Score +1 for Ubuntu.
Click-n-Run
Freespires much vaunted Click-n-run interface just plain blows, or at least for me it does. The interface is clunky, has too many options, menus, and whats-its going on, and half the things I tried to click-n-run were more like click-n-crash. - Ubuntu has Synaptic (and plain Apt-Get and yes I know you can get it in Freespire too, but its not there by default).
Score +1 for Ubuntu
Firefox
Freespire renamed Firefox 'lBrowser'. Please. Please stop with the lWords. Even the Freespire Firefox theme sucks. They even have a .mozilla folder in your home dir, but thats not where the profile etc is, no, thats in the .lbrowser folder. eek. Ubuntu just gives you Firefox and doesn't mess too much with it (other than a decent theme I think).
Score +1 for Ubuntu.
Multimedia.
Ubuntu and Freespire both seemed to support mp3 playback out of the box so thats a draw. However, Freespire did support most win32 video codecs right out of the box. It takes some configuring to get Ubuntu to support them (not much but some).
Score +1 for Freespire.
lSongs
lSongs lSucks. The interface is crappy and it seems like a crappy rip-off of iTunes. A really crappy rip-off at that.
Score +1 for Ubuntu.
lPictures
lPictures lBlows. Give me Fspot or Picasa please. Same UI issues as lSongs. And if I have to tell my wife to launch lSongs to listen to her jazz music she's gonna lPunch me in the lNose.
Score +1 for Ubuntu.
Install
Freespires installer was pretty smooth other than the partitioning part. Its a lot faster than Ubuntu's installation but the partioning part is worse.
Score +1 for Ubuntu due to ease.
Score +1 for Freespire due to speed.
I'm only on my 2nd day of reviewing Freespire so maybe I'll find some more things I like, but as it is right now I'm thinking I'll be reinstalling Ubuntu tonight.
Freespire polished the kde interface a bit. Its still kde though and has 9 million options. You have to dig through 500 menus, pulldowns, and other random configuration items to do the simplest thing. When you right-click on the desktop there has to be at least 12-15 options on there. Ubuntu's Gnome UI is much more streamlined and polished.
Score +1 for Ubuntu.
Graphics
Freespire doesn't realize my graphics card and or monitor is capable of greater than 1024x768 resolution. I can't change it to anything higher via the gui whereas Ubuntu did automatically.
Score +1 for Ubuntu.
Click-n-Run
Freespires much vaunted Click-n-run interface just plain blows, or at least for me it does. The interface is clunky, has too many options, menus, and whats-its going on, and half the things I tried to click-n-run were more like click-n-crash. - Ubuntu has Synaptic (and plain Apt-Get and yes I know you can get it in Freespire too, but its not there by default).
Score +1 for Ubuntu
Firefox
Freespire renamed Firefox 'lBrowser'. Please. Please stop with the lWords. Even the Freespire Firefox theme sucks. They even have a
Score +1 for Ubuntu.
Multimedia.
Ubuntu and Freespire both seemed to support mp3 playback out of the box so thats a draw. However, Freespire did support most win32 video codecs right out of the box. It takes some configuring to get Ubuntu to support them (not much but some).
Score +1 for Freespire.
lSongs
lSongs lSucks. The interface is crappy and it seems like a crappy rip-off of iTunes. A really crappy rip-off at that.
Score +1 for Ubuntu.
lPictures
lPictures lBlows. Give me Fspot or Picasa please. Same UI issues as lSongs. And if I have to tell my wife to launch lSongs to listen to her jazz music she's gonna lPunch me in the lNose.
Score +1 for Ubuntu.
Install
Freespires installer was pretty smooth other than the partitioning part. Its a lot faster than Ubuntu's installation but the partioning part is worse.
Score +1 for Ubuntu due to ease.
Score +1 for Freespire due to speed.
I'm only on my 2nd day of reviewing Freespire so maybe I'll find some more things I like, but as it is right now I'm thinking I'll be reinstalling Ubuntu tonight.
