This is an absolutely devastating review of Ubuntu:
In recent years Linux has suffered a major set-back following the shock revelations form SCO Group, whose software had been stolen wholesale and incorporated into illegal distributions of Linux. For the past five years, the overwhelming effort of Linux developers has gone into removing SCO’s intellectual property from the Linux operating system – but as the threat of litigation has subsided many users are asking once-again if Linux is a serious contender?
…if you object to this communism, tough luck: The so-called “Completely Fair Scheduler” is incorporated into the “kernel” ( which is the Linux equivalent of the MS Dos layer in older versions of windows). This “feature” alone is enough to frighten serious users away from the upstart operating system… Windows users have no need of the “Completely Fair Scheduler” because we have modern scheduling software such as Microsoft Outlook (above). Outlook allows you to give your time to whoever you want, regardless of any socialist definitions of ‘fairness’.
I’ve traditionally been favorable toward Linux-based operating systems, but this puts them in a whole new light.
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