Ubuntu wins hands down!
I started to get curious about linux when I saw the spec of a PC running vista and my jaw dropped when i saw its the same as getting a porche and towing 6 caravans.
At first I though "its free, so it cant be that good, bet its easy to break", so I installed it onto a 466Mhz Dell with 256 Mb of ram, and it still beat the vista thing is the race of 'from power on to google home page' buy around 5-7 minutes.
I tried to break it. I really did, but it refused to die, and when i witnessed that a update sped the system up I was hooked.
Then i discovered that I can write a program using any part of the pc i want and there was no looking back..... want a program to send you a message to your mobile skype account when someone trips the PIR sensor you've rigged to the parallel port? check?
What to rig the bluetooth scanner to the text to speech program in under 10 minutes? check.
Want no virus,registry hassles, 'scan' disk nor 'defrag'? check.
Want your pc to behave just as reliably as your moby phone or radio? check.
Want to be part of a community rather than a faceless/powerless customer? check.
The choice is yours, and at the end of the day until you install it and try it you'll not make up your own mind.
GIR
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