"Reasons to stick with Windows Vista and avoid Ubuntu"

[Conrad Knauer]

On 8/22/07, Jerome Haltom <wasabi at larvalstage.net> wrote:

> > Maybe there's a difference between what's preinstalled (my laptop came
> > with Vista Ultimate) and what one installs manually. There's a ton of
> > extra crap there, and the hard drive constantly spins in Vista, slowing
> > everything down.
>
> As for the preinstalled stuff, yeah... but Windows OEM installs have
> been that way for a decade. I suspect that if OEMs were to distribute
> Linux machines in the volume they distributed Windows machines they'd
> write Linux-crap ware for them. =(

They might be tempted to, but I suspect they wouldn't for the simple
fact that end-users can (in the case of Ubuntu anyway) legally
download the OS for free and just do a clean install.  Windows users
are held hostage by the fact that they don't normally have a real
Windows CD, but rather only an OEM-supplied one (if that!) that's
specific to their machine and has all the crapware preinstalled.

CK