Yay, "OS Wars". At the end of the day, it's what we personally feel comfortable using. Whether it's because it is good or we're just familiar with it due to marketing, media, friends or whatever and therefore base our decision to choose an OS upon that. For me, Linux provides the least hastle for day-to-day use. Vista is on my other laptop, which is a dual-core 64bit processor with 1gb RAM and an nVidia graphics card (I don't remember which) so I'm surprised at how slow it is, not even quicker than openSUSE 10.3 on a 1.3ghz centrino with 512mb RAM and a crap intel graphics chipset (i855, I think). But putting aside speed, it's not really much of an upgrade from XP. A different interface, but essentially the same. Windows 2000 was great (and still is the best Windows OS) - quick and stable.
I have only tried once installing (unsuccesfully) Linux onto my computer. I have no idea where the error was but I was unable to boot after setup, hence I may be missing features not availabe in Windows. When it comes to servers, I have installed CentOS many times after playing with other distros and sometimes I wonder if this could be a good option for a household computer's operating system.
Vista is only good if you have a high performance pc. To put it into perspective you get more core features from XP on a lower specification machine, this is because vista is a modular OS. People with XP Pro will actually loose functionality in Vista Home Premium. XP is far better.
Question itself is quite irrelevant ...how can you make such comparison it all depends on number of factors. If surfing is what you do all day long...I find no good reason why Vista is better than Linux
It is hard to say, to say that Vista is better than Linux is too blanketing a statement. GUI wise, yes, the sheer number of applications that runs on Vista but not Linux yes. Far more hardware are supported by Vista than Linux yes. But I would feel performance speed wise Linux is better and Linux like Ubuntu is catching up on what is dominant in Vista.
I'm not sure if that's entirely true. I have a feeling it's possible to run Linux on a far wider range of hardware than Vista. Perhaps XP has better hardware support, but Vista? I don't think so. Perhaps Vista has "better hardware support" for newer hardware but in general its hardware support is not great, unfortunately. As for the GUI - well, if you want Aero you can have it in Linux too, there are themes for it out there as far as I'm aware. compiz and beryl improve the gui experience a lot, not that Linux does not already have great GUIs available.
I think xp is better than vista still microsoft better than Linux because : 1- it has a good graphical photos. 2- it is usable, familer and understandable than Linux 3- linux is depend on terminal command and that is not good. thanx.
Let's all admit that Windows is better than Linux. The big, and probably the only, advantage for Linux it's that it's free .
Theres things windows is better for and theres things Linux is better for. The fact that Linux is free and won't weigh your system down make it a better choice for me.
I use Windows Vista Ultimate as well as MS Office 2007 Ultimate. Vista OS is functional and seemless with other new Micosoft products incuding ecommerce programs using ASP.net platform, I like it very much!