Probably true, but then Microsoft operating systems have never played well with others - it goes far back, to before Windows.

It’s a philosophy choice ‘ the linux community and First Do No Harm’ versus Microsoft’s Screw It, We’re Taking Over”

I don’t believe you are telling the truth 100%.

I have personally converted 6 vista laptops to Ubuntu and received nothing but positive feedback. Maybe the many linux users I now know and myself have been lucky with Ubuntu. Maybe you have been unlucky but you do not actually offer any valid criticism other than your own personal opinion and a doubtful story about crashing software.

I have a laptop that boots Ubuntu 8.04, Vista, and XP. I’m on Ubuntu 80% of the time (everything works), XP 15% of the time as I have 4 Windows programs I need for work that don’t run on Linux and only boot into Vista to run updates. The laptop came with Vista and the touchpad doesn’t work correctly with Vista! One of the Windows programs won’t work with Vista (thanks Intuit) so I have to have XP. I’ve been trying to get Wine to run them but no luck so far. Probably user error.

I’m glad Vista works for you. But I find it as MaximumPC put it, “bloated, pokey and buggy”!

I think you should inform yourself more before making such statements. As the oracle said, it’s very well known that linux should be installed after installing windows, because it’s windows that messes up your boot sector, so you should blame windows, not linux, for such problems. And what do you mean by “stop them from easily accessing a working Windows Vista installation”?
As for accesing your EXT filesystem, you can install and use ext2ifs, which now works in windows vista as well and lets you mount EXT filesystems.

Hey, I guess this guy hasn’t used the Wubi installer w/Ubuntu 8.04? Sad, really sad because the Wubi installs Ubuntu like a Windows program and then allows me to select the OS on startup. How cool is THAT!! Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04 live very nicely on my Acer SFF PC without any of the problems this guy mentions.

If Vista works for him, more power to ‘em but I’ve found that Vista sucks so I’ll stick with XP and Ubuntu 8.04.

I clicked into this article thinking there would be a warning about some incompatibility or other…

What a waste of time! This article told me nothing. It was more like a Vista campaign than anything else!

Note to self: Ignore Pablo Richie in the future.

Possible..but unlikely.

I run Vista too, because I have to; but I also have an Ubuntu box. Ubuntu does almost everything (except some proprietary stuff that I need for work) as well, or (considerably) better than Vista.

Still, I would concede that if we are talking about a business laptop in a Windows work environment, Vista might be a better choice than trying to run Ubuntu

(but “faster”? never…)

It seems that talking smack about Ubuntu is almost as bad as talking bad about someone’s spouse. They take it personally. I use various operating systems for various reasons, finding that it is easier to use the right tool for the right job. I never considered the operating system that my computer used as a badge of honor in any way. In my opinion, arguing over which operating system is ‘best’ is like arguing whether a hammer or a screwdriver is best. It depends on what you are trying to do at the time.

I agree with PC, this is just a waste of time. I don’t know why even I bother to click this Lockergnome blogs, recently they just have become in Microsoft and Apple advertisements. Nothing useful at all.

I have dual booted Feisty and Vista, Mint and Vista, XP and Feisty, Suse 10.3 XP and Feisty, but Hardy with anything has not worked out well. I believe that Hardy came out too soon.

I have to laugh at all of the people who ‘camp’ in one OS or the other… they really don’t understand OSes at all!! ALL of them have problems… ALL of them have advantages… ALL of them have disadvantages… ALL of them have quirks. I’ve used them all… Windows from version 2 to Vista Ultimate, Unix System V, Linux (any distro you can name), Mainframe Oses, Mac, proprietary mini-computer OSes like Motorola’s Unix-like OS9 and IV Phase’s Data 4 and Vision… no one is ‘better’ or ‘more secure’ than another… If you understand OSes you can get into them easily and you can take advantage of what they have to offer… The boot process on a PC has nothing to do with the OS: it’s a process that STARTS the OS, was defined in the early ’70s and has never changed. If your looking for total control over this process look into Bootit NG from Terabyte Unlimited… Iv’e tried all of the boot managers and this one gives the best control and invades the target OSes the least. … I’m still laughing….

I have Linux Ubuntu 8.04 on Vista Premium, courtesy of Wubi on Dell’s Inspiron 530 Q6600 and never had any problem. Now I hardly boot into Vista. Forget about Aero, Compiz is way superior.

User error… make sure to install microsoft + Linux…. haven’t had any problems….