I see
Windows Vista showing up in my visitor logs with increasing frequency here lately. While I am sure I'll upgrade eventually I find myself spending more time with
Ubuntu than anything else lately. It seems to work fine almost everything I need to do from an Internet slash entertainment perspective anyway. My only complaint about Linux in general is that drivers are often non existent for many popular peripheral hardware devices. The words will work with Linux carry increasing weight with me as time passes. Other than that though the platform works for my basic needs.... web browsing, email, listening to music, watching most video (some idiot sites are so under Microsoft's proprietary spell that they refuse to play nice unless they see IE on the user end which is most idiotic on their part but sheep will be sheep I guess), some lite word processing, and graphics manipulation. I even have to admit that it is sort of satisfying when I am going for days on the Linux side of the hard disk to not have to stop and do the monthly patch cycles from Microsoft. Of course other PCs in the house have to be checked to make sure that the Windows auto updating feature did indeed do its job and eventually of course I will find myself back in Windows for one reason or another and that means bringing my PC up to date as well. The whole Linux is free thing is nice as well... if some major manufacturer just had the
nerve to offer Linux as an outright alternative to Windows and really try to sell the idea by offering really quality machines and then maybe discount the price of PCs that are sold with Linux since it is free or cheap. The last time I checked
Vista don't come cheap especially considering a lot of people will need a new PC to run it. It could only improve the whole alternative OS experience as far as end users are concerned, not to mention Linux has software suites to do almost everything imaginable (numbering in the thousands) for free as well. However no major PC manufacturer would have the nerve to piss of Microsoft like that. Oh well this is where I will stop and just get back to my that is just way things are logic.
