Two more impressive features of ubuntu this week.
First, I plugged in the family printer to see if it would work. At this point Windows would squeal that it needed new software, that the port was wrong, that the printer was not compatible and all sorts of tosh. When I previously tried to use the same printer with Windows Vista that was my evening gone. Ubuntu recognised the printer immediately and started printing within a minute without me needing to do anything daft or laboured. I just pressed print.
Second, my laptop battery has for some time been almost completely useless, giving only seconds of power before shutting down the computer. I always thought this was a hardware issue but it seems not. Now I have ubuntu the battery is working again. I do hope someone at Microsoft lands on this post by accident and at least has a slightly red face.
I am quite astounded at how poorly Windows is coming out against ubuntu. I am also amazed that Windows remains the world standard, a position it can't keep for much longer as more people like me make the break.
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Windows is best at two things. The first is in crashing your computer, and the second is at copying programs written by others.
Windows beat Ubuntu at one thing, and that is crashing your computer!
Good post. Was a Windows user for a long time until April of last year when I finally went over to Kubuntu 8.04. How little Windows users forget that it is common place to have a little CD with every hardware we buy and have to install it before anything will work. Linux has gotten so much better with support in terms of hardware and if it works...its seemless...just plug it in and go. Why Microsoft will all their billions couldn't have a more streamline process is beyond me. Linux is sooo effective with its so little resources (money wise)...but it is quite powerful and simplistic in many ways.
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