One area not tested is download size for updates. With Fedora 11's new Presto feature, you can download deltarpms rather than the full rpm when updating. For most people, it takes more time to download the packages than install them (whether you're using yum or apt-get), and deltarpms can reduce download size significantly. »

ZFS has been in Solaris for almost 3 years now, and it was in OpenSolaris before that. »

Even better, use moc instead of mpd. Works more like a typical music player, just on the command-line. No need to set up music repositories and use relative paths from there. »

I have yet to play a single FPS that uses it. Of course, most my FPSes are Steam, which runs fine on WINE and uses online verification of the user. However, I have to agree with he OP and say games are a pathetic metric for success of operating systems, especially since most people still don't actually game on their PCs. On this, Linux has Windows beat, hands down, polls closed, no contest. Linux has more than Windows has. It just lacks hardcore gaming. Windows has yet to corner the server market, the supercomputer market, or the embedded market. And when you have no need for gaming, there's NO NEED WHATSOEVER for Windows, especially with projects like OpenOffice keeping up with Office now. Linux is definitely faster, more stable, and most certainly more secure than Windows. I'm glad I don't have to suffer through Internet Explorer or Outlook Express anymore. And yes, I used Vista and immediately felt it was garbage. (This was even before I started using Linux full-time.) I didn't drink the anti-Vista kool-aid. HEll. I don't have TV, and I didn't even have Internet until well after I started using Linux. Vista sucked. No matter what the "It worked for me" minority claimed (And it is a minority. Most the bad press Vista got was well-deserved.) I use Archlinux. It'll never let me down because the developers thoroughly test each package, and unstable garbage like Pulse Audio are in [community] at best. »

Your mistake was using Ubuntu. You'd need something like Arch or Debian these days to get phenomenal stability. Ubuntu is garbage. I know I'll probably get flamed for that, but after suffering through endless problems in 8.10 especially, I switched to Arch. Nope. Windows is definitely less stable than Linux, even fully-patched. I can run my Arch install for months. I definitely can't get that sort of uptime with Windows. Ever. »