Because I have the world’s smartest husband I also have the world’s most up to date programs on my computer. Every few weeks or so all my stuff gets an update. Its great! So a little while ago Dan told me that I needed to try out Ubuntu as an operating system to see what I thought. So we transferred all my stuff from Windows XP to Ubuntu. Then, a few weeks later, I received my dear little Dell Mini 9 for Christmas. On it was installed OS X. Yay! A new operating system to learn. So…here’s my review of all three, based on my very…ahem…educated observations.

Windows XP-It has my documents still loaded on it so I use this one a bunch. My desktop screen has an adorable picture of Eli on it and I can access my programs via the Start menu. It has little icons on the desktop that let me access my programs and I know where my photos are. It freezes up occasionally and I have to restart. That’s about it.

Ubuntu- A charming African drum beat plays every time I start up. I have to enter in a password every time I re-start, and I don’t know where my documents or music are. Also, it won’t run Silverlight so I can’t do my work from here. I have to re-boot in Windows. I don’t run it all that often…but…apparently it has all the bells and whistles Windows doesn’t. To my untrained eye, however, its just kinda become a pain because all my stuff is here, and I have to work in Windows…so I don’t have access to my music while I work.

OS X-It makes little “wooooop” sounds when you click on an icon. I like the photo storing program. The start menu is on the bottom of the screen. That’s about all the difference I’ve noticed…

So…as you can see…us non-techies don’t really care about our operating systems. We just want a place where we can listen to our music and surf the web uninterrupted. All the little nuances that the trained eye picks up on are completely lost on the rest of us. I’m pretty sure that’s how Vista made it past quality control…

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