| Soleron said:
1) He bought the netbook without a Windows license. Even if he has 'another' copy, it would be illegal to install that one copy on two PCs? Unless he's OK with that? 2) OK then. For specific applications, it is possible to make Linux run faster than Windows because you can strip away more graphics and services than XP can, and you can run more programs in the terminal only. For general use (not deliberately going for speed and using default programs), Windows XP is about the same Linux. The proof is that Linux's system requirements are lower than XP's. 3) Of course. But conversely there's no reason to give up Linux if it's working for him except for a few glitches that can be resolved by installing Ubuntu. 4) Yes, unless XP costs for him, which I suspect it does. If it does not, then I agree that just installing XP is the simplest way out.
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1) If he has an XP copy he's not using there's nothing illegal about it. Not everyone pirates all their software. Some of us actually buy it.
2) Have you ever tried running a linux GUI on a low-spec machine? It's quite painful. Low-spec machines = commandline terminals as far as I'm concerned. Windows also usually has a speed advantage in applications (especially launching) due to OS tricks like prefetch which linux doesn't do.
3) It's a matter of preference. If I have a screw with a Phillips head on it, I don't pull out the common screwdriver and go at it, I get out a Phillips screwdriver because I know it will do the job. An OS is a tool to me. If I'm using Windows/OSX/linux, it's because it does the job I want it to do. I don't have a pet OS (like you do with Ubuntu), I have whatever solves the problems I need solved at the time.
4) Fair enough.
