I typically run 3 - 6 open tabs in Fire Fox, Thunderbird, while XMMS metes out the tunes from a 100gig cache of tunes to the Klipsches, might open up GXINE and play some videos along the way and be DLing vids or audio tracks as a pretty constant set of things my system is doing at once. Ubuntu handles all this with one eye open while it drowsily asks "Is that really all you want me to do ?"
When I had XP that was simply too much for it to handle at once it seems, since it would lock up nearly daily to the point where Ctl/Alt/Del wasn't even any help, requiring me to hard boot the bitch. Not to mention of course the CPU time the Microslush counterparts for the above mentioned programs/players/functions take compared to the the Linux versions.
Then there's the "security" patches to be DLed occasionally, requiring a reboot to set the new parameters into place. I really loved having to close and restart everything I was doin to do that shit !
Then when you add in the necessity of runnin all the anti-virus/spamware/spyware crap to keep the system clean, this makes for a helluva resource hog by comparison to Ubuntu on top of XPs already bloated background of programs it runs continuously that I didn't even NEED !
By comparison (with Ubuntu) I get a task bar icon showing me there's an update available, click on it, let it do it's thing & then at the very MOST I have to close and restart a program, but NEVER the computer itself to implement the changes.
I'm not an IT cat, though admittedly with Ubuntu, you don't need to be one to run it, although that's what the mainstream Microslush hardliner feels is required to run a Linux OS. When a novice like myself can run Ubuntu, anyone else can too ! Well, there are a few blonds I've known that might have trouble, but ....
Linux just keeps getting more useable for novices like myself, which just narrows the gap more and more between who NEEDS to run a Microsoft OS and who doesn't. The move towards open source just keeps gettin easier and easier, meaning more and more folks will be moving away from Windows products.
Long live Tux
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