Horses for courses. It's all down to a personal preference whether you think Linux or Windows can do things better than it's alternative. It's a red herring to compare Linux with Windows anyway, the only fair way to do with it is to compare individual distributions as Linux is only the kernel. On the usability stakes it's a bit unfair to lump say Fedora and Gentoo together. Perhaps some people feel that this is the problem, that there is too much confusion over the choices in Linux distros. I would disagree with that and would be mortified if everything revolved around one single distribution and window manager.
Personally, I find my Slackware and Fedora core systems to be far more usable and flexible than XP because it suits my way of working. If you think Windows would be a better choice for you, then use it. The world would after all be a more boring place if we were all the same.
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Originally Posted by Bifta
Once linux can be setup as easily as windows I'll consider using it more regularly, as it stands I have an ubuntu box that has no wireless networking, no sound, unable to print or scan, doesn't recognise my camera, steering wheel, joypad or joystick and the external drive seems to only be running on USB1.1
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Hmm, what version were you using? I tested Hoary Hedgehog 64bit (the most recent) and it had no problems with any of those things (except the wheel as I don't have one, and my wireless network as it is a daughterboard rather than a pci card).