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My Personal Experience.

Socratesfoot Updated - 24th Apr 2009

Let me first say that from the articles I've read and Microsoft history I think we can safety assume little difference between Windows 7 and a fully patched Vista running on a standardized compatible hardware platform matching Microsoft's ideal hardware specs. Most of the improvements have been in hardware compatibility and fixing stability issues, and there is a beta out there, and MS has posted white papers. So I think a comparison can in fact be made pretty easily.

I think a lot of people judge the quality of an Operating System based on how closely it matches the "Ideal Microsoft Experience" which seems unfair. UBUNTU has a lot of things that when you learn them are better and lets face it, MS doesn't even match their own ideal. Personally,

I'm testing UBUNTU myself now. It hasn't been easy. I had Java apps that were supposedly cross-platform that didn't work because they were designed in Windows for Windows and Mac only. I've had to relearn everything I know about graphic design apps to use GIMP instead of Photoshop. I miss VBA, Excel, and Access macros; and I don't really have a replacement App in Linux I like yet.

On the other hand. There is the whole flavor thing in Windows I don't have to deal with. Wine on UBUNTU is awsome and it makes a beautiful media station with no security pop-up prompts or anything. (Yeah I said media!! It just makes a lot of the bad things go away and the good things get better without Direct X or Active Script) It is virus proof so I make visiting family use it everytime they come so I don't get weather bug installed when they visit. I do 90% of what I need now and have never crash, or blue screen, or get a warning telling me I'm not genuine enough to update. So I'm sticking with it.

It had some advantages on the Mac too. I could operate much quicker with less effort, securely; OSX always reminded me of navigating through jello, especially for administrative tasks. The system is clean and straight forward, where Mac tries to look new age and trendy to the point of gaudiness. It even setup a little quicker and with Synaptic, added all my software to boot.

Plus, it ran some cool games. I got World of Warcraft, World of Padman, Grid 2, and a couple others.