QUOTE(mahirharoon @ Dec 26 2007, 11:36 AM) and the worst os for a home computer Perhaps some reasoning for why you think it doesn't work as a home OS would be nice?

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I dual-boot Windows XP and Ubuntu, which is great because I need Windows XP for certain programs and Ubuntu becuase I want an alternative to Windows. (I also tried Fedora Core but I decided that Ubuntu was easier for me.)

I've also known other people who switched to Ubuntu and found out that their computers improved performance and their computing made easier, including a 68-year-old grandmother, who she said herself that she can use her computer easier.

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When I get my computer fixed I'm going to duel boot my old computer withh XP and ubuntu. I love my adobe stuff, I'd hate to lose it!

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Well, I think the one thing that Linux users and Windows users can agree on is that Windows kicks the crap out of Linux for gaming, and Linux kicks the crap out of Windows for developing.

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Well the gaming thing isn't exactly the fault of Linux developers. Game developers don't recognize Linux as an operating system they need to cater to, so they only produce games compatible with Windows (and sometimes Mac).

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Which makes perfect sense when you look at the pie chart, so Linux pretty much has to play indie games unless something multiplatform is made, which is unfortunately, rare.

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Yea, that is true. I was slightly misinformed about the gaming of Mac's vs. Linux. They are about on par in compatible games. Which makes sense because they are both relatively close (~0.5% apart) in terms of users.

And I can see the problems that would be created for compatibility with all of the different distros.

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Not necessarily. Consider the programs brought about by Mozilla. You can start using these programs on a Linux-installed machine almost immediately after extraction without having to compile these programs from source. Opera has made for source-based distros a shell script that installs the Opera browser onto the system (the only dependency being QT-mt). All these programmers have to do is precompile their software for Unix-based systems and make a bash script for the installation.

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No, not necessarily. I personally am using Xubuntu as my Desktop OS right now. It runs alot faster than windows for most things. For instance, anyone who has tried Net Beans IDE on windows knows how it can sometimes be too slow to even bother using. I installed it on Linux the other day, and while it was still not quite the speed you'd like, it was noticeably faster than on windows.

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I've just gotten into Linux, but I have enjoyed using Ubuntu. I own a PS3, and one of the major (geek) perks of it is that you're able to install Linux on it. So now I have Ubuntu on my PS3, which feels awesome with the 47" HDTV acting as a monitor.

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