Microsoft Windows vs Canonical Ubuntu?

I much prefer the GUI of the older versions of Ubuntu, unity is awful. No matter how bad unity is, it will never be as awful as Windows 8. Overall Windows is much better supported but I prefer the GUI of Ubuntu even though the Windows 7 GUI is not too bad. As for stability I oddly find Ubuntu more stable.

honestly they both do the same thing :)

they look slightly different but work very much alike Linux is a faster more integrated with the cloud , cloud back ups on unbuntu happen automatically the back up of all new files docs and configuration ..

the neat thing I have found if I am working on a document file and there is a power outage because files are backed up as they are made you loose very little data the computer restarts you load the program and Ubuntu will call your doc from the back up intact just pick up from where you were at ..

just like you can log into your goggle account when you re down load chrome and all your plugins book marks and history is complete restored Ubuntu can do this from a crash say you re install Ubuntu it can re install your desk top set up to the way you had it before the re install though you will have ti re install programs ..

microsoft is not there yet, with Ubuntu unity you don't have a desk top so much to talk about as a dock you can use any almost any desktop Chrome for that matter is desktops with aps and plugins ..

thoughI can tell you people are looking at windows 8 with the wrong eyes rather then what it is which is the same a dock for the real desk top that is just starting top be developed at this point in the cloud service ..

I like both very much. I dual boot XP and 12.04. I think XP is more powerful in higher level administrative applications and easier on system resources for more taxing multimedia applications. Windows has troubleshooting apps that are usable by the intermediate user. I've been dual booting for some time now and testing open source apps on both platforms. Multimedia apps tended to run well on both; however on my older machines segmentation faults would occur in Ubuntu suggesting a need for more RAM. Unity is a fast nice looking interface, it's just not for everyone. Windows interface is hard on the eye but well organized. Like I said; I like them both and I'll dual boot as long as Microsoft will allow it.

Depending on what you want to do with the system itself either will do in a pinch. Since I have been using like Ubuntu since 2005. I like Ubuntu over windows. But due to working in an office environment. I still have to use windows to do most of my work in that over here. Since Ubuntu or the Linux environement is not that popular in an office environment. With the exception of the server side where it is most stable to use on Server sides.

I like them both. But I do find myself using Windows a lot more. But sometimes I like to get back into Ubuntu and just use is. Both are great, and both do basically the same thing.

Being I haven't used Windows regularly in years, definitely Ubuntu. I am not sure I could ever go back to Windows again.

I have gone back and forth between Ubuntu and Windows for many users now, but I think finally, I have made the decision to stick with Ubuntu and never go back to Windows unless I really need to, such as work or whatever, but even then I'll be using a work computer. For my everyday computing, Ubuntu will be my OS of choice :)

I use Ubuntu as my current operating system. I boot off of my Asus Ultrabook. And it works fine. I edit videos and do my photo editing on ubuntu. I think that Ubuntu is way more stable than Windows.

i find no reason to go back to windows for office and I know many many who use Ubuntu in the office setting and love it , the popularity of Ubuntu and mint have multiplied over the last 18 months .. with the popularity of android smart phones Linux is the most used OS on computing devices it will take time but eventually people will get around to recognizing it..

Linux and I-os are the two main player in the market now there are more Phone and soon tablets will be added in to this fray there are more sold and in use every min of every day then there are windows PCs

everyone here is still asking if we think linux will gain in popularity soon now its already there and has been for sometime now and took over the lead not really all that quietly .