huuuooooo !!! RAGE!!! why ? who knows... I didnt even watch any anime lately lol. oh but I played SF Alpha 3 on PSP and got beaten alot by Sagat. its really hard to use D-Pad for games like SF that requires down,down-right, right + punch combination, my thumb is hurt because of Sagat. Tekken is the best for this.

anyway, showdown is not about Street Fighter here, its about Windows Vista Vs Linux ( Ubuntu distribution ). For people who have no idea what is Linux, Linux is another Operating System that helps humans to communicate with computer. Linux is free and open source, its written just because windows is useless and not secure and unix is alone needs many easiness and modifications. So Linus Torvalds sit and start to build its own OS based on Unix. Since its open source, anyone can see its codes and help to improve it. So with years passing Linux becomes better and better. There appeared many distributions of Linux because people wanted to use it differently, modified and released on the net. Ubuntu for example is written because the coder thought Windows is useless but Linux is hard for everyone and I should write my own distribution, so Ubuntu is born. Its based on Debian Linux so its abit different than RedHat, Mandriva, Slackware etc. Actually all of them have different things but mostly they are the same while Ubuntu is different in those things too, but again they are the same in kernel which is Linux. Linux needs some knowledge to use it fully, unlike WinXP, but some distributions are very easy to use, for example; Ubuntu, Mandriva etc. Ubuntu has a great package manager, maybe not the best but it allows you to choose what to install and when you are done, it finds and installs. I wanted to install a different instant messenger program ? I open Synaptic Package Manager and choose what to install and here it goes, everything is automatically installed in seconds/ minutes depending on package size and your connection speed. I can install free Linux games etc.

Oh did I mention games ? It seems so... Why games are not released on Linux ? thats obvious, just because of its License and bound to be open source. Game companies want money, game prices show it too. Also m$ pays companies to hold them. And m$ lets piracy to control all people who cant afford original copies. Why ? To not lose money! How ? Oh come on! By giving cheap Windows so they wont need Linux! M$ only forces companies to buy legit copies, they only trace companies to sell big in one time and for advertisement. So M$ both lets piracy to be used to not lose people to other OSes and doesnt let piracy work for companies. But still, in server based works, Windows is the least chosen OS thanks to its insecure, slow, hard to edit architecture. Unix based OSes however, especially Linux is so much more flexible and FREE with everything. Oh and Ubuntu's installation is only 6 steps and you are done, so much shorter than WinXP.

Another knowledge paragraph is about Linux's XGL. Linux's desktop is named "X". You can install a linux distribution without X so you'll use it via commands. XGL project was started by Novell, another Linux distro, in 2004 and released on 2,Jan,2006 ( Vista is released on 30,Jan,2007), I want to point this, and improved more and more later because its open source. XGL program is run by Compiz or Beryl window managers. Beryl is more popular right now.

Then Windows Vista appeared with great visuals, compared to previous Windows versions of course. I used Windows Vista on a very good computer but it was so slow. With almost same hardware on a laptop,Linux is so fast and smooth with XGL effects. Vista has really nice look I admit, but its definitely the worst OS ever. period.

Ok, after boring part ended its showtime now. People who think Vista has great visuals definitely didnt see what can others do. here is some great videos ( I'm sorry that I cant put them on my blog since I'm not level 10 yet, I dont have video upload feature. if there is a way to do it, please PM me )

Windows Vista Vs Linux Ubuntu Beryl

Very Nice Video that shows great animated background and transparency

Playing with your shortcut icons

The Sun's Looking Glass Project for a 3D GUI running on Ubuntu Linux

I want to point that those videos are 2006 year posts, so this concludes our showdown; Linux beats Windows Vista.