rhosgobel.blogspot.com — Since I had to install both Windows and Ubuntu from scratch, this seemed like a perfect opportunity to compare the two operating systems' basic installation procedures. Thus, I tracked the time it took to carry out all installation tasks for both operating systems, and report the results below.
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vulnoxJun 27, 2006
Bah, I said cakefart and I saw someones name below the post, I meant NotMSFanboy.oops
doctornkulJun 27, 2006
@sbrownNow compare that (the instructions in the link you just posted) with hitting F2 in the XP installation process and putting a driver floppy in.
bradhannahbJun 27, 2006
Holy Fanboy! This is extremely slanted toward Ubuntu. He writes about Ubunut:"The most complicated portion of the installation was setting up the partitions, though the partitioner Ubuntu uses (QTParted) was extremely easy to use. As long as you've planned out your partitions ahead of time, you should have no problems at all."Of course, cause the average user can figure out how much space to allocate to /varwhile Windows is soo difficult:"Unfortunately, the Windows XP installer left me without a working network connection or sound."Well chief if you had have used the Dell restore CD, it would have worked. Extra crap gets installed you say? Sure it does, but so does Ubuntu, it happens, get over it. PS Linux boys and girls, I also use Ubuntu, but like they said at the top, Windows is not Linux.
novagenesisJun 29, 2006
So if computer companies create ubuntu "restore CD's", you admit that Ubuntu will be easily ready to replace XP?Calling in "The windows restore CD" is a definite step out of the 'rules'. Of -course- the restore CD will work..it has to... They designed the thing SPECIFIC to the hardware their company would be using on the CD.
lazerbeakJun 30, 2006
Hi there this is my first post on digg :DLinux and windows both have pros and consWindows is fairly easy to install but requires you to install drivers for the motherboard, CPU, and sound card after wards. Most modern distros of Linux are very easy to install as long as long you let the distro auto setup the Linux partitions which distros will do.Linux has a wider range of drivers built into the distro. however installing drivers on windows is pretty simple (but not always),.One problem with Linux is once your off the beat and track it can get pretty complicated i.e. command line. but then Linux is defiantly more stable than windows and Ive heard ext and ReiserFS are much better filesytems than NTFS.Then again I'll never forget having to spend quite some time learning how fstab works which irritated me since I don't want to learn stuff like that just too mount a hard disk.Also Linux wont run things like itunes, ms office etc, and cross over office only seemed to support pretty old versions of windows programs also game support still isn't as good as windows though getting there. also web sites sometimes looked strange in Firefox on Linux, web site font handling doesn't seem as good on Linux as windows. but then Linux is free, and windows costs a fortune also Linux has a huge resource of free software.Personally I like Linux but it defiantly required more work for me, Linux is more complicated than windows and harder to use sometimes, but then its MUCH more stable than windows and free (or very cheap), I don't think Linux is a windows replacement yet for most non geek users yet but its getting there vista looks like its gonna suck pretty bad(bloated to hell) , this can only help Linux improve its position in the market which I hope it does.