I have just read a BBC “users OS review”. BBC have selected two users to explain theirs opinion about Windows Vista, and by one user for Linux and OS X.
After reading that article, my final thought is that vista bloated too much. That was mentioned by both writers. No one of Linux distros requires a minimum of 512 megabytes of memory just to start an empty OS. The exact vista fan’s phrase was:
Whilst 512Mb is quoted as the minimum I would say that 1Gb is needed for a wait-free session.
How is it, to have 1Gb just “for a wait-free session”? Microsoft also did, in my opinion, a funny solution for those who have a not enough (I suppose less than 1Gb) memory. As the other writer sayed:
When you’re having performance issues due to insufficient memory, you can use a USB flash drive as an additional cache of memory to boost performance.
No one of users mentioned notning interesting besides the new Windows 3D Aero interface. To be clear, both articles are telling to buy more memory and new video card, just for a new Microsoft fetish interface. The completely different articles about the Linux and the Apple OS. The basic ideas from the article about Linux, as always, is about freedom:
… it also gives more experienced users radical powers over their computer which are not available in other operating systems.
Also there is a huge variety of high quality, free software available for Linux…
Also it encourages programmers to be better people, working in the open…
I’am absolutely agree with this opinion. The same as the author of the first Vista article, I did all steeps following the Misrosift. I was faithful to it, and went through all popular OS versions: 3.11, 95, 95 osr2, 98, 2000, XP. But the real comfort came to me in 2004 only with Linux.
What is for the Mac OS X? It is a truely polished OS. It is much more stable than any Windows, and it is straight forward developed than GNU/Linux distributins with theirs tons of variants how to do the same task. But I think, it is not fearful Microsoft competitor, because it supports mostly own expensive Apple computers, and no possibility to set it up on any other cheap variant.