OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7

[HarryKeogh]

courtesy of The Onion (http://www.theonion.com/content/infograph/os_x_snow_leopard_vs_windows)...

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[Wowbagger]

Release Date:
Snow Leopard: "Late 2009"
Windows 7: Just "Late". Maybe 2015 or something. Who knows?!

:D

[jsiv]

I hear Snow Leopard includes a new theme for the Spinning Beach Ball of Death.

[Soapy Sam]

Lets not get ahead of ourselves.
We still have at least two years of slagging Vista.

[pingnak]

I hear Windows 7 will have a theme for their BSOD.

RSOD, OSOD, YSOD, GSOD, classic BSOD, VSOD... whatever color of the rainbow you like. The yellow screen has some text legibility issues, but it's not as if the BSOD tells you much of anything besides 'YOU ARE BONED.'

Or you could just install Linux and see what features OSX and Windoze might have someday. At least the 'functional' features. Ubuntu 8.10 is very, very nice. Especially if you have a machine with a ATI/NVIDIA 3D card and can load up that COMPIZ plugin and get the 3D desktop goodies going. Even if you have a crappy old PC, Linux will generally work just fine. It doesn't eat much. Something that can't be said for 'new' Windows versions.

The price is right, too, unless 'free' is too expensive for you. Or maybe you're into giving money away to people who have nothing but contempt for you? Maybe they're right. You keep paying them for crap, don't you? Heck, you don't even expect their stuff to WORK, and yet you STILL pay them.

Don't get me wrong, Linux is crap in its own special ways, but hey, it's FREE CRAP! Bundled with tons of 100% fully functional OTHER FREE CRAP! Not the sort of useless 'free crap' you get on a new Windows machine and have to spend a day uninstalling because it's truly crappy crap. Real, serious, usable crap... and games and toys.

Download an ISO and burn it to a ten cent CDR today! (http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download) Bill Gates can't even mail you a nekkid picture of your mom for that! Is that too technical? They'll ship you a CD for free if you just ask. (http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu)

They even have an install mode where it makes a file on your Windows partition, recursively mounts it and boots out of that image file. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide) No repartition necessary to install it and play around with it in-depth. A simple Windoze download and install to set it up, a simple Windoze uninstall to remove it.

You don't even have to INSTALL it. Just boot the CD and it will boot completely to the desktop, graphics, sound, network, wireless and all, so you play with it. You can even browse the web as it installs. Chances are good it'll find all the hardware on your PC in the first go. If not, the Ubuntu forums has thousands of people asking the same question about your PC, and there's usually a work-around.

You can even install it to a USB thumb drive and have a 'virtual computer' that will boot on any PC that can boot off USB.

Try it, if for no other reason than to find out where to get free stuff you like. After all, there are Windoze/OSX versions of a lot of those things, too. Windoze, because someone usually gets around to porting it, and OSX, because Linux and Unix are almost identical, so somebody gets around to recompiling and packaging it.

[jsiv]

Or you could just install Linux and see what features OSX and Windoze might have someday. At least the 'functional' features.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Kernel-panic.jpg/800px-Kernel-panic.jpg

[pingnak]

The Matrix Runs Windows
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1886349