Linux has better Windows compatibility than Vista

Found on Wasting Time With Mike Andari on Friday, 01 February 2008
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I have been using Vista for well over a year now (since Beta 1). Of course Vista is slow, its bloated (over 10x the size of XP), aero kills system performance (even though this should be done on the video card), networking is pathetically slow, etc etc. We all know Vista sucks.

But recently my blood has been set to a rolling boil by the fact that most of my games just don't work in Vista. At all. Its so bad that out of spite I have decided to make a list of games that work better in Linux under Wine than in Vista.

This post is clearly a bit biased. What shocked me though was how easy it was to find games that didn't run under Vista but did in Linux by using Wine or DOSBox.

Every game but Blackthorne crashed my Vista box, this didn't happen a single time under Linux.

Not to mention Samba, which is better than the MS original.