11 Reasons to Love Ubuntu:

• Ubuntuforums.org
• Simple website, setup, all around simple
• Apt-get
• Apt-get
• Ubuntu Wiki
• The Ubuntu community
• Most programs have a special install for it, or at least have specific instructions for Ubuntu.
• Wonderful built in software
• 2 Updates a year
• LTS updates
• Ubuntu chartroom is great for instant support

28 Reasons to love Linux:

• Open Source
• Open Source
• Open Source
• Open Source
• Great help base (though Ubuntu’s is superior)
• Anything is possible with the right knowledge
• Gnome
• Reliability
• Free
• Lash / ffmpeg / lspci / lsusb (amazing, simple commands)
• Grep
• Amazing logging (try finding that in windows!)
• File transfer speeds are shown (MAJOR)
• Makes the best servers
• Cron
• Wget / fdisk / DF –H (so many great command)
• Wine (the Windows emulator, not the alcoholic beverage)
• Not graphically weighed down, but still looks good
• You have a choice of gui ( Gnome, KDE, Xfce, etc. )
• You can run just about any sort of server on Linux
• So freaking customizable
• X
• X over SSH
• Great built in support for encryption
• Really easy to start making your own scripts and customizing it just the way you like it.
• Best security, anywhere. No config necessary (but you still can)
• CUPS
• It can run on anything even a 200 MHz processor

24 Reasons to love Unix:

• SSH
• Amazing setup (root /) so much better than C: and D: and E: and F: etc.
• Great integration with PHP, Python, etc.
• Bash / SH
• Mounting is SO easy
• Terminal is worth knowing (cmd.exe is a joke)
• Great built in support for compression (more than just windows zip!)
• Transmission (app)
• Finder/Nautilus are not the ugly  explorer.exe
• Mounting more than a hard drive is possible (network and virtuals)
• You don’t need extras; the basics do it (Ex: ISO making is included in Unix by default)
• Efficiency
• Rarely has Apps act up like Windows (You’ll forget what to do when you see a Don’t Send)
• The Icons look good
• You finally can break away from the start menu of windows.
• Directory/File permissions are worth using
• Directory/File owners are worth using
• Groups are worth using
• Customizabilicity. ( Yes, it’s not a word but even when you can customize your boot loader than is pretty amazing )
• SUDO
• Terminal can look pretty flashy ( compared to cmd.exe )
• It doesn’t lie, it throws files away, it doesn’t recycle them ( attack on the Recycle Bin of Windows )
• It gets along with everyting, Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix always communicates great.
• There is hope for when you have problems

The supposed speed of my crappy file server.

I took a server speed test and I landed 1 millisecond behind Google for my file server speed. I am REALLY doubting it as it takes seconds to load any pages that uses images of it such as my projects sites. I don’t know why it showed up so great… cool

Vista was getting a little rash, from one hour to 25,193 days!

Vista kind of lost it too… I understand the copy speed was a bit slow (2.6 MB/s) compared to the normal 8 or 10 from Disk to USB but still, no need to say maybe by the time I’ll die it will be done copying.

You asked us to make everyday tasks faster and easier, to make your PC work the way you want it to, and to make it possible to do new things -Microsoft.com

So was that written about WinXP, Vista, or Windows 7? Doesn’t it sound like all Microsoft does is copy and paste? And I agree the tasks are faster, because they require better hardware, therefore it’s the hardware improving not the OS.

Windows 7 was built around your feedback, so you’ll see a lot of things you’ve asked for. -Microsoft.com

I think what most people want from Windows is a fast reliable OS, not tons of useless programs thrown together.

• Sticky Notes
• A Revamped Calculator
• New Paint
• Magnifier
• Snipping Tool
• Windows Power Shell
• Windows Journal
• Tablet PC Input
• Math Input Panel?

Okay right off the bat, Windows Journal, what the heck! Who wants Windows Journal? Okay that’s wastd program #1. Sticky notes, sort of handy but there are already a million programs that do that. Calculator, your cool, you look good but I am never going to do my mortgage with you. Magnifier, really a waste of time. Snipping Tool is useless, and I don’t have a Tablet PC, so why would I want to be able to input. And Windows Power Shell aka renamed command prompt and changed the colors. And who wants to type in Math equations on their computer?

The taskbar is WAY to confusing, I am lost just it is mixing links with things already open, how do I know the difference? It is way to confusing and once again, useless.

Overall, stick with XP, or better yet, go Ubuntu!