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Andi and I came across Windows Vista today. Some blokes from Microsoft offered a deeper insight into the ‘OS of all OSs’ at the mall in Wiener Neustadt today. Before I go on I should mention that I’m no ‘OS Nazi” - I’ve worked and am still working with Mac OS, Linux and Windows, so I think I can give you a fairminded review of what I’ve seen today. Comparing those 3 is like comparing apples to pears - literally.
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Which Desktop has more eye-candy for its users, which one does more 3D effects, translucency and whirrling thingies. But you have to decide for yourselves, which one is best: XGL/Compiz (Linux), Aqua (Mac) or Aero (Microsoft). I have to admit that I like all 3, but judging from the hardware costs to bring those effects to life, I’d prefer Linux.

Linux XGL/Compiz

Apple Aqua With Spaces

Windows Vista Aero

I’ve installed the very new Ubuntu version on my other HDD the other day, and I must say that it’s just perfect out-of-the-box. I also installed the XGL/Compiz packages for superb 3D-Desktop enhancements. But I use Windows XP most of the time because of CounterStrike Source, Battlefield 2 and iTunes. I could live with playing CSS under Linux but I’m still waiting for Apple to release an iTunes Version for Linux systems, and I don’t think that it is a matter of programming difficulties but the lack of market. So here’s my call to Apple:

Please port iTunes to Linux! I’m in a desperate need for an application that corresponends with my iPod in an appropriate way!

One once said: “Linux is for working, Windows is for Solitaire” was right, because I switched from Windows to Linux once and didn’t miss anything, except those things we all hate about using Microsoft products.

I know that there are solutions for my problem, e.g. CrossOverOffice, but I want a more native solution.

Anyhow, I’ll try to bring iPodLinux to my iPod today

Was released earlier, and features XGL (with some hacks). What the hell is XGL? See for yourself.

This weekend was so turbulent:
On Friday the USB backup disk frame of the databaseserver at work died, I fixed that today.

On Sunday I decided to join a LAN session at a friends house on Tuesday, so I installed a HDD frame, and when I had loosen the last screw of my HDD, it fell down and my fine working ubuntu was gone.

On Monday I decided to buy a new 200 GB HDD, which my BIOS won’t recognize.

On Tuesday I played Battlefield 1942 at the LAN session, Battlefield 2 didn’t work because of my lame ATI RADEON 9000 graphic card.

On Tuesday I reinstalled ubuntu on the HDD which fell down, and it worked. Something stranged must have happened during the 30 cm fall .
By the way, I used Windows XP to play Battlefield, so I came to the decision to sell my 200 GB HDD via eBay, buy another 80 GB HDD, to install Windows (just for gaming purposes), and buy a new graphic card.

At the end I’ve learned that dropping HDDs isn’t good in any way, Ubuntu is an operating system, Windows is a joke, ASUS mainboards suck, and that 64MB graphic cards aren’t suitable for LAN sessions.