A week with Windows 7 and Fedora 10
by rDeeb on Jan.16, 2009, under Linux, Windows
Almost a week ago I installed Windows 7 Beta and Fedora 10, and here are my thoughts about both operative systems.
Windows 7
Overall I have no complains with this new Windows version:
- It was very stable,
- Didn’t got any BSOD,
- Didn’t had to install any driver,
- My Video Card worked correctly,
- The new taskbar it’s awsome.
It is a very good version of the operative system, this kind of version are the ones you see as the final release from Microsoft, so I’m looking forward for the final version.
Fedora 10
Very disapointed from this release just the way I am from Fedora 9. It didn’t recognized my video card (as usual) I have a Gigabyte nVidia GeForce 9500 GT OC, and none of the Linux distros I have tried had recognized it… In Fedora 8 I installed the kmod-nvidia drivers and I got compiz to run… but every time I try to install and configure the kmod-nvidia drivers they doesn’t load. The network configuration is lost on every rebbot… I alwasy have to tell the system to use Sys Eth 0.
Pidgin, gEdit, and a lot of other software crashes (a lot of times).
This doesn’t means I’m going back to windows… this means I’m getting my Fedora 8 DVD and installing it again!.
January 18th, 2009 on 7:47 pm
I just read your response about the comparisons between W7 and linux. Since Fedora insists that firmware is not included in it’s distribution, you are not ever going to see “out of the box” firmware support from vendors. Windows7 has no such constraints.
As for Pidgin and gedit crashing, it may very well be due to your faulty video card. Nvidia is a card whose opensource drivers are new to linux. However, by spring 2009, Nvidia and ATI will be supported, hopefully fully.
What you failed to compare was the memory footprint, and the amount of CPU usage for some tasks. That is, a trivial benchmark would have been appreciated.
With the economy very soft, Windows 7 has to come in at or below the price of XP. If it remains as a cadilac or top price, then the support duration had better be very very long term. (8+ years)
January 19th, 2009 on 10:44 am
@Leslie
I didn’t compare the memory and CPU footprint, cause I think that it is like comparing a Ferrari with a Hyundai, Symfony runs under 70ms in development mode on my computer.
I know the restrictions of the firmware in Fedora, like many other restrictions we have… that’s why we don’t have MP3 support out of the box.
As I said, it’s not like I’m loving Windows 7 that much to change back. I’ve beeing using Fedora since Fedora 6 and don’t think changing back from it again.