Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says (eWeek)

Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says (eWeek)

Posted Aug 10, 2007 17:16 UTC (Fri) by leoc (subscriber, #39773)
In reply to: Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says (eWeek) by Zhohar
Parent article: Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says (eWeek)

That's interesting, I have two non-identical machines, one is a laptop with a PentiumM running XP, and the other is a much older P4 based desktop system running Fedora Core 6. I also do similar things like cross platform application development, document editing and the usual kind of web surfing and email writing and for all of those things Linux is not only faster, it is also far more reliable. For example, if I copy a big file from one place to another on my laptop, the entire gui becomes unresponsive. If I need to do more advanced things like switch between networks (I have multiple different subnets that I do different kinds of work on) the Linux box is far far easier to switch and doesn't do bizarre things when I do so. The XP box generally requires more reboots and recoveries. The Linux box just works. I only reboot it when I update my system and it installs a new kernel. The only thing the XP box does better is handle multimedia. I think it is because the CPU is a lot faster, because my dual core box at home does that kind of thing fine.

As a side note, have you tried synergy2? It's a fantastic app for people with multiple machines on their desk.

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