Quote Originally Posted by jockeys View Post
Windows XP Pro SP3 vs. Ubuntu Hardy Heron
If Robin an others hadn't already pointed out all of your logical and technical fallacies, I'd have to spend half an hour responding to this.

as it is, there's only one or two things to point out.


Windows XP was released in 2002 or 2003.

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Was released in 2008 if memory serves. (I'm now using 9.04)


That means that any serious comparison between the two is utterly pointless. You may as well compare Windows7 to Apple IIe, or compare OSX to DOS. It makes no sense to even engage in such a comparison.

Had you compared 8.04 to Vista, which actually would have been logical, you would have had a very different experience.


Also, unless I'm mixing your post up with somebody else's, I believe you went on for a bit about developing software in C#. I won't flame you for that. C# is great for what it's for. The problem is that "what it's for" is developing windows only applications in a windows environment. If you are a C# developer, you DEFINITELY fall into the "linux is not for everybody category" and I'm a bit surprised that you would have even bothered.

It's a bit like buying a PS3 so you can access your email from home. It just doesn't make any sense.

However, that doesn't mean that Windows has any meaningful advantage over linux for software developement. For C, C+, C++, Java and every other major programming language, there are a wide array of excellent IDEs and many command line tools as well for people who prefer to write code the old fashioned way.