Comments on: Why I Switched Back To Windows From Linux

By: john

john — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:50:21 +0000

windows is for all the people that just would rather have things handed to them. windows sux point blank.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:25:58 +0000

@Alex – I waited it out into RC versions just before final release. Many of my issues were fixed but some important ones were not.

@Martinos – I can’t justify the “Apple tax”. When I purchased my current laptop last year a similar spec Macbook (with a lessor CPU) cost ~60% more. The battery life on the new 15″ is VERY impressive though, almost enough for me to consider it worthwhile. I may try OS X on my non-Mac PC.

@ohh god – You clearly missed the point of this article. As I said I’ve been working with Linux for 10 years and admin 6 LAMP servers right now. I COULD have gotten it working if I was willing to invest a significant amount of time. I’m to the point where I’m OS agnostic. If it works and does what I need I don’t care who makes/sells it or what logo is on the box/website. Windows 7 does what I need without the excess time needed to make it work.

By: ohh god

ohh god — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:50:41 +0000

This is the worst review/post linux bashing/review/rant I have read in a good while. I simply don’t know what to call your opinion!

Windows is okay if you are a newb. Windows is garbage in my opinion and after playing with linux for about 2 years, I can’t see myself going back to windows. I been using windows since 95.

If your level of intelligence is limited to windows, fine but you do not ever make bad comments on another operating system if your intelligence is smaller than windows. Linux does require someone who knows what they are doing and should not blame linux just because you can’t make very simple things run.

By: Elite hacker from the Future

Elite hacker from the Future — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:43:11 +0000

Amen! Windows rules!

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:21:50 +0000

I feel your pain.
For me, I have the same situation. I tried desktop Linux since Redhat and then Mandriva, Gentoo, and now Ubuntu. Desktop Linux never works out of the box! Period, specifically if you are dealing with multimedia. I had too much headaches already so now I just use Windows Vista for my desktop. On the server side, it’s a complete different story though.

Regards

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:22:14 +0000

What is the point of this article?

I had all the mentioned problems in Windows.

By: Michael Koby

Michael Koby — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:27:50 +0000

Interesting article, you rarely see someone talking about going back to Windows from Linux.

Since switching back to Linux from Windows last month, I’ve been finding issues where Wireless and XOrg sorely lack in easy configuration.

Until Xorg & Wireless “just work” in 90-95% of circumstances Linux will still have trouble being adopted by the mainstream. That being said, we are LIGHT YEARS ahead of where we were even 3-5 years ago so it shouldn’t take too much longer to get there.

By: Martinos

Martinos — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:10:17 +0000

I worked with Windows for 19 years, and I never like the OS, system administration, security. Last year I switched to Linux but I had all the problem that you describe (problem with video, sounds, wifi). I also did’t like the available email clients (Thunderbird and Evolution)

For me Mac has the best of both world, the power of Unix (OS X) and a better usability that Windows.

If you want to please yourself buy by Mac.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:30:23 +0000

You are bitching about Ubuntu being unstable when you are trying out an alpha release?? What did you expect? Get a stable release and give it a good test then see how stable or unstable it is.