Ubuntu vs Windows

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Part 4

System Diagnostic and Monitors

In windows XP you need to go to Start>Run> and type in Dxdiag to get up information on screen and press control alt delete to bring up the CPU load and RAM load.

in Ubuntu you just go to system>administration> system monitor. and task manager's load Graphs and information on the hardware are shown all in one widnow.

Although Gnome's system monitor doesnt confuse you with numbers when it comes to RAM (it just says 24.0GiB on mine as with windows it says something ridiculous like 24384MB) i prefer Dxdiag as it shows much more detailed information.

more on this tonight, i believe i have a wedding to go to

Windows 7, right click your task bar, left click task manager. I think it was that way in xp also. Also ctrl alt del press task manager. Windows 7 has way more montioring and even tells you what program each file belongs too. and each one that is accessing your drive, memory, network, cpu, ect in real time. (Resource montior under the task manager)

Also for one of the older posts in this thread, Windows 7 does disable file sharing out of the box and the firewall is fully enabled.

Windows shows it in mb so you know if a video card (integrated) is leeching off your ram it would show it. Older video cards may only have used 16mb of ram for example. In your example it would have showed 24384 -16mb 24368MB where Ubunti would only show 24gb still? btw who has 24gb of ram???? (Beside servers)

Same with Hard drives as not all hdd are the same. Infact a few manufactures got in trouble because 80gb drives were not really 80 (Even with converting it to true numbers) So full numbers do help in these cases.

[Zeealex]

i can see where you are coming from. i do like windows' level of detail like i said before, the diagnostics tell me what CPU speed i am running Ubuntu doesnt.

and i never knew of the task manager shortcut but i was trying to make a point with it that ubuntu has the diagnostic and the resources all in one.

i was TRYING to break mum's Bias by saying "yes okay ubuntu has it all in one program, but windows is more detailed"

and the RAM thing. i had a motherboard that held that much and i didn't want to waste it. it's not really there for bragging rights, more, future proofing and releasing the motherboard's full potential. i should really use it as a server.

[Zeealex]

Temperature sensor Report

on my phantom i always check the starting temperature in coretemp (windows) and the temperature before shutdown the reason being is to see if i need to shut everything down yet

and the same with Xsensos 0.70 for Ubuntu

the startup temperatures are as follows

Windows: 25 degrees C, i am really happy with that but do we expect lower or higher from an OS that requires more?

Ubuntu: 20 degrees only just reached 23 degrees now. after 15 mins

Shutdown:

Windows: 34 degrees to 36 degrees. still happy better than the 46 i used to get.

Ubuntu: 32.4 to 34 degrees

to save bias i didn't include a peak temperature as i play allot of games on windows that i cant play on Ubuntu. so it wouldn't be fair. seeing as the highest i have seen the meter go up to is 50 degrees playing Crysis which i something not available to Ubuntu

as you can see although the difference isn't drastic, Ubuntu requires more from he system, yet runs up to 5 degrees cooler which would be a good thing for your CPU's lifetime. call this insignificant, but if its comparable to windows, it'll be on here.

If you've got children who are in school it might be worth taking a look at Edubuntu it comes with a massive amount of educational software preinstalled, link below for what is installed from the start with lots more to pick from on the software manager thingy

Edubuntu

Installed Apps

interesting stuff i think our school would benefit from Edubuntu

Edited June 14, 2011 by Zeealex

[CrowmanUK]

I've showed it to a few of our SEN folks and they were impressed with it.

[Zeealex]

nice! SEN = Special educational needs? or am i confusing it with something else?

[ApexMods]

Ubuntu has come a long way and reached amazing maturity with the recent advent of Natty Narwhal (11.04). While the Unity UI has received some criticism from the more conservative corners of the Linux community, I think the new approach is very user-friendly and shows a level of visual and ergonomic elegance on par with traditionally commercial operating systems.

The ease-of-use and feature set you get for free in such a comprehensive OS package is very impressive, it offers just about everything that is needed by the average computer user. Ubuntu's technical underpinnings are of course lightyears ahead of Windows, and security-wise the distance stretches across multiple dimensions. If I wasn't so comfortably settled in my Mac OS X universe and had to look for a viable alternative, Linux would be the only way to go, with the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and Ubuntu being the first candidate on my list.

[Zeealex]

wow that was quite thorough there

i think the interface needs work, but i am happy using it. but i think compared to windows 7 its allot better. you can get windows 7's style without the need for 2GB RAM to get the full potential from te visual effects.

and i dont see windows 7's windows bouncing on the screen

overall the updates on the security on windows are usually minimal and i dont think they are particularly making windows worth the money. i have had allot of my stubborn school friends come up to me and ask me where i can get my operating system, and i tell them, even if they thought windows was "amazing"

the things i would want to see updated in ubuntu though are listed below.

more support for windows based .EXEs through wine

load up and shutdown screens slightly changed

and ill think of more

Edited June 15, 2011 by Zeealex