What Linux users think of Windows 7?
Many media are giving positive reviews on Windows 7, an operating system that promises to make us forget the disaster of Windows Vista. However, what users think of GNU / Linux operating system?
The question is interesting because many of these users use Windows for work or because they are good for, say, playing computer games or use of this platform applications only available on Windows.
In fact, the improvements in Windows 7 stability, fluidity, and lower consumption of resources look promising even for users of Linux, which is usually strongly opposed to such developments. For other users, however, it is possible to take advantage of both Windows and Linux, so if you are a Linux user, what’s your opinion of it Windows 7 Beta if you have tried? None of flame wars, please!
Bill Gates confirmed that Windows 7 will be handled with the fingers.
What began as a rumor that later was taking power, was finally confirmed by the hand of none other than one’s own Bill Gates.
The interaction with the computer in Windows 7 will not be alone with the keyboard and mouse, but gained much importance tactile interfaces, voice recognition and writing.
None of these is a new technology, but will force the new version of the operating system, especially the tactile. Bill Gates is a great defender of the Tablet PC, and want the interface is much easier to use by gestures on the screen.
To this end, they are working with hardware manufacturers, which will need to adapt their devices to these features. Certainly, when Windows 7 comes out, which is rumored to arrive in 2010, the multipoint touch screens and should be something common, with a price to provide all that come with laptops.
Of course, you’d better prepare something revolutionary to Microsoft for this new version and slowly the other operating systems (or earlier versions of their own) will be removing the large market share that has taken over many years.
Linux users of W7?
Normally users of GNU / Linux operating system are quite critical of Microsoft solutions, but it’s interesting to hear the reasoned view of these developments as users on Windows 7, the new operating system from Microsoft. A Linux user has done just that: a detailed analysis of various areas of Windows 7 Beta compared with the concepts included in Ubuntu or XP.
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Larry Ewing,
Simon Budig
and Anja Gerwinski
Some users use Windows for professional reasons, while others maintain dual configurations to enable them to access the best of both worlds. Therefore it is always interesting to get the viewpoint of Linux users on new developments in Microsoft. Is what makes a user who has published a comprehensive analysis of Windows 7 which looks at aspects such as installation, encryption, interface, applications or the security of the new proposal of Redmond.
This analysis is not objective, as the author himself admits to begin writing a long article, since first Windows 7 has not used long enough and because he knows more in depth, such as Windows XP. However, the analysis is interesting and often compared with their counterparts in some areas in that XP and Linux distributions like Ubuntu. As you know the performance of these three operating systems has been compared to some other occasion.
The findings are as we might expect: “Windows 7 beta is relatively stable but not too many things installed or used on an ongoing basis. I had many problems with the initial version of Vista “The last comment, however, is more radical:” I use Linux because they do not use Windows until someone pays me for it, but probably just as many think this user.
Our companion MuyLinux, Picajoso also offers his own opinion on the matter: “For my part, I tested Windows 7 Beta, and the truth is that the upgrade to Vista is significant. It was hard, many say, but this new version seems to solve many of the weaknesses and flaws in Vista and could be a step forward for Microsoft (to Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, so cree). It is more stable, more fluid, less demanding in resources and resolve criticisms that were made your predecessor. ” In MuyComputer and publish a complete analysis of this version of the operating system.
And MuyLinux continue to indicate that “evolution is a good Windows-on benefits are not closed in its philosophy, which remains the same as always, and I do not see that this is necessarily bad: Competition is always good, do not you think? .
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