A lot of people are frustrated with Windows bloatware, and Vista seems to share a quality with Hillary Clinton – Love / Hate relationship. It is said with Hillary that you either love her or hate her and I’m hearing the same about Vista.
For those of us who know what we are doing, we are frustrated by all of the “security” pop ups of Vista. (And no, I can’t just turn them off on other peoples computers.) Some find all of their applications to work just fine under Vista, others find that few work without a lot of legwork finding patches and drivers.
InfoWorld has a nice write up called “Windows to desktop Linux in three easy steps”. I think it’s pretty well done.
I think Ubuntu has a lot of promise. Many people want everything on their PC; and most of them suffer for it.
Others just want to get their work done. And done quickly, please.
At least one person at Microsoft gets it and is trying to change the perception of Windows as bloatware, starting with Windows 7 due in 2010. Here is another InfoWorld article about that here. It’s apparently being referred to currently as MinWin.
