On a whim I did some Google searches:
“I love Ubuntu” ~41,200 hits
“I hate Ubuntu” ~1,680 hits (~4% of Ubuntu love)
“I love Windows” ~37,400 hits (including facetious uses of that ;)
“I hate Windows” ~61,100 hits (~163% of Windows love)
So using this unscientific poll, we can surmise that people’s experience with Ubuntu is generally far more pleasant than with Windows ;)
In a slightly related note, Bill Gates seems to be cementing the Vista-as-Windows ME 2007 reputation by claiming that “Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version” of Windows. Never mind that its complete vaporware at this point; perhaps he thinks the message he’s projecting is that “I’m super-enthused about what [Windows 7] will do in lots of ways”… yet what people are actually hearing is ‘avoid Vista’; the results are predictable: people will stick with XP for now if they can, get a Mac if they can’t or maybe even dabble with Linux; Hardy is looking so pretty that it absolutely blows away anyone who hasn’t looked at Desktop Linux in the last couple years (and the EULA can’t be beat :).
[Update: for more unscientific fun, see the comments ;]
April 5, 2008 at 11:42 PM |
This is an interesting idea. I decided to expand on it a little more.
Everyone knows the true test of anything is the “suck” test:
Windows sucks – 425,000
Linux sucks – 285,000
Are people switching to Linux:
Switched to Linux – 541,000
One of the biggest complaints about Linux is that it’s hard to use, install, find drivers for, etc. So is it:
“Linux is hard” – 32,300
“Windows is hard” – 1,420
April 5, 2008 at 11:54 PM |
GreenLantern: given the hundreds of distros, “Linux” is perhaps a bit too broad (and to be fair, if using individual distros we should use individual Windows releases), so consider:
“Ubuntu sucks” 7,410
“XP sucks” 20,600
“Vista sucks” 235,000 (!!!)
“Ubuntu is hard” 7,920
“XP is hard” 5,520
“Vista is hard” 20,100
and just for fun >;-)
“Ubuntu sucks donkey balls” 4
“XP sucks donkey balls” 7
“Vista sucks donkey balls” 106
I detect a trend…