That said, Ubuntu uses Gnome as standard, and a lot of the good new UI features end up getting sucked into Gnome while Kubuntu is left out in the dark. Which sucks, because KDE is a vastly superior window manager (and is also not shit brown)

Wild: I’d rather not hear that Simoun is bad from someone who gave a perfect 10 to Sola :P

Actually, that stuff was just to get at Negs. I haven’t finished either Simoun or Aria, admittedly, but I don’t consider them bad anime at all. I just have a million other shows that require watching first.

Edit: Fixed.

Anyway, I don’t think I could use OS X every day. It’s nice, shiny, easy to use, etc etc, but there’s things that have always bugged me about the OS X interface. And there’s the obvious lul games.

Ubuntu is fantastic. I really must give Canonical a pat on the back for this, because it’s as close as any Linux distro has come to being my permament desktop OS. *But* (there’s always a but), there’s still too much work to initially set stuff up. nVidia drivers, for instance - I didn’t just click an installer and have it do all the work for me. No, I ended up having to Google for instructions on installing the binary drivers, because a Linuxfag’s worst nightmare is actually proprietary code. My server however still runs Gentoo. It’s been running Gentoo, doing my torrent bidding, fileserving, music streaming and web serving for months on end with its software RAID 5 array, just happily chugging along. Until every once in a while, at 2pm on whichever day it chooses, the driver for the onboard nVidia ethernet starts chucking a world class hissy fit, fills the system logs with errors and the thing becomes inaccessible without rebooting it.

Everyone knows about Vista’s flaws, so I won’t even go there. Suffice to say that I think UAC is absolutely useless. I mean, installing spyware used to involve popping up an ActiveX control that said something like “BONZI BUDDY SEARCH” in big letters, then asking if you want to install it. People still click yes. Why? Because most people are idiots, and will just keep clicking yes because the computer keeps going if they do. And if you actually pay attention to the security prompts, then you probably don’t need them anyway, because you probably don’t click anything and everything without checking what it is first.

I’m still sticking with XP for now, because I think for me, it’s about as good as an OS gets. It’s not bad to look at without being weighed down and sluggish from it, it’s (generally) fast, it supports the most software, it’s got mature drivers, and it doesn’t have to ask if I’m sure I want to scratch my ass. And my servers will stay with Linux, because let’s be honest, that’s where Linux belongs. My Gentoo box can hold a solid 40-50Mb/s from it’s RAID 5 array over gigabit.