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Over the course of a month, I tested the latest and greatest offerings from some of my favorite operating systems. Including windows and some others which I was not so familiar with. What follows was an exercise in what happened during the course of this trial period. using the exact same computer specs, internet connection and general programs which I use on a day-to-day basis. The results found were very mixed to say the least, leaving two easy winners, namely both Ubuntu and Debian. Although I have to say that in the end, Debian, was the very clear winner for me over all. As this was the only system which I tested that not only worked, but also out performed the others for its sheer stability in its use and quality of selected programs.
The video includes a small glimpse into some of the problems I ran into. However for time reasons, I have not included all of the systems I had tested. First up was the new Windows 7 RC1, I was not able to properly test this at all due to it being incredibly slow and unresponsive. The damn thing took a full five minutes to load from boot screen to the desktop regardless of what I did. This was in stark contrast to my previous experience with the Vista Beta which ran on my machine really smoothly without a problem. It was not exactly the new and improved example from Microsoft, that I had been lead to believe.
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