Say Goodbye

Soon I will say goodbye to this computer I am on. and I will be switching to another one that we have here. I can't say what speed it will be but I hope it's a good one :).

I was "talking" to a friend of mine over chat today about windows(windoze) verses linux. He is a die hard windows user and can't help it really... I asked him if he'd ever tried linux and he said he used it once for about two hours.

Lately I've been dual booting on an install of windoze that we have and Linux. The Reason for using windoze is simply for chatting and viewing webcam. However, whenever I tried working on something on wondows, I would run in to roadblocks all the time. I couldn't just ssh in to my server and unzip things and un tar them no.... I would have to download the files FIRST and then I would have to unzip/untar them and THEN I would have to upload them and make sure they worked. And if they didn't, well tough luck, you've gotta download them again, edit and reupload. talk about a hassle!

I'm told that you can download special programs to run linux commands under windoze but they ofcourse don't run as fast :). You can download many programs for windows that will give you compatability, but it really takes too much hassle! Almost everything for windows isn't free, and it all takes up more memory than necesary just because of the fact that it is windoze.

I have not tried Windows Vista out as of yet and I can only hope the Microsoft has shaped up and really made something out of windows... I doubt it but I can always hope for it :). But even then, Windows Vista is FAR from free. take a look at the prices for Vista, even their basic version is a days wage! don't even speak of the pro version :). Mac would have to be the better alternative if you intend to pay that much, they cost about the same anyways! might as well... they're more stable :).

So anyways, after using both for a few days, I have really decided that Windows is for kids(playing games and chatting) and Linux is for working Grownups :). The simple features such as webcam and voice and stuff, windows has, but the advanced commands which increase productivity, are in Linux.

thankyou.