Windows vs. Linux - A Desktop Comparison

January 17, 2006 on 7:31 pm | In Linux |

“Windows vs. Linux - A Desktop Comparison” isn’t so much a flame war as a gallery of pretty pictures - it puts screenshots from SUSE 9.3 Live, Ubuntu 5.10 Hoary and Windows XP side by side doing similar tasks, which allows you to compare each OS’ usability quite easily.

Now, I’m not trying to take sides or anything, but… SUSE kicks ass! The GUI is much prettier than XP’s and Ubuntu’s (GNOME with Metacity), and the vibrant colours make it look much livelier and a pleasure to work on.

Overall, it is a good visual comparison and I advise you to check, because it is a great way to show how features differ between the OSes. Ultimately: To each his own!

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  1. Suse looks awesome. I first used 9.0 and was blown away by it, the new versions look even better. Shame I prefer Slack, or that’d be my distro of choice :)
    Linux, when properly tweaked and prettied up, looks far better than Windows and program locations tend to take fewer clicks to find.

    Comment by ray — January 18, 2006 #
    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 1.5 on Linux Linux

  2. I agree - SUSE 9.0 was my second distro, and I thought it was amazing! Especially after Windows and an annoyingly difficult Fedora Core 3 ;) (I had to reconfigure a bunch of things to make FC3 work - although I did learn a lot!)

    Comment by J_K9 — January 18, 2006 #
    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 1.5 on Windows Windows XP

  3. SUSE is one of those “pick up and play” distros that looks amazingly sleek and polished for a feature-rich distro. It’s also great for laptops too since it’s hardware detection is excellent and the installation is configurable enough.

    I’m currently with SUSE 10 on my laptop and with a few extra online repositories for stuff such as MP3 and VCD support, I have got a good desktop system in SUSE.

    Debian is still my main distro, but unfortunately my own computer is down for a while now with hardware trouble and I haven’t been able to use it in a while.

    Comment by hari — January 21, 2006 #
    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 1.4 on Windows Windows 98

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