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What a totally biased article.

The comments below are my views, and my veiws alone.

I do wish that when people write articles like the one I am commenting on they would make that point clear.

Everyone is welcome to their opinion, but don't try to present them as fact.

So, to my comments,

What is the "Linux Desktop" the author mentions ?
There is no such thing.
There are oodles of them - so which one is the author refering to ?

He mentions KDE4 - this ( in my opinion ) is the most bloated, un-user friendly desktop I have come across is years.

Vista - a brilliant OS from my perspective as a user of it - I do wish people would stop jumping on a band wagon and bring some reality to the topics they write about. OK - Vista needs a modern PC for it to work well, but these are very cheap now ( mine cost £140 from Tesco and is brill ).

Mac - I can't comment - I have not used a Mac for about 20 years.

My views on the subject of which OS to use are ( as I heve mentioned before on this site ) :-

1. There is no one best one.

2. Choose the one that fits your needs bearing mind :-

2.1 Windows has by far the better applications available of the 3 ( although you have to pay for them normally )

2.2 Mac is only available on hardware with a vastly high price compared to hardware equally as good for running Windows and Linux.

2.3 Linux - which distribution do you want - there are so many. I use Ubuntu on 2 computers here ( one Laptop and one PC ) - they are only used for basic WP and Internet work - I personnaly would not use Linux for anything else as the apps available are no where near as good as are available for Windows ( my opinion ). I have tried, and I found myself having to dual boot, or go Virtual - I tried Wine, but it would not work with the Apps I wanted.

Remember, these are my views.

I do wish that when people write articles like the one I am commenting on they would make that point clear.

Everyone is welcome to their opinion, but don't try to present it as fact.

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