Undulations

After about 5 months of using Ubuntu almost exclusively as my daily OS; I’ve finally made the decision and switched back to windows - why? And how does it feel?

Ubuntu had become surprisingly usable and polished in it’s last two iterations, perhaps the main incentives that made me try it as a primary OS - and it was a good experience, on an overall view - the Ubuntu Software Center were catering to most of my software needs; UMPlayer took good care of my videos; and I didn’t really mind the occasional tinkering that was required to get, for instance, the mic working.

The problem, a non-trivial one, that is - was the bugs. There were simply too many of them, and most of them non-trivial.
The PC will altogether refuse to boot. The Mutter GUI engine will fail for days sometimes. There were constant errors and bugs with the routine operations like file-management. Once, I made a backup of my important documents and program-source-code onto an NTFS drive and formatted my Ubuntu partition - once I reinstalled and checked the backup folder, it was empty - nothing had been copied in the first place.

I’m not denouncing Linux or Ubuntu as a totally unusable platform, in fact, it was fairly superior in many aspects - however, the way I see it, there is a missing, a tangible one. A concern about uncertainty - the feel Linux gave over Windows is exactly like what the “wobbly”, rubbery windows of the former feels against the rigid, matted glass windows of the latter.

In the end, it’s all about preference -
Using Linux, maybe, is like the thrill of riding a motorcycle; while Windows gives you a feeling of comfort like that of a car. Above all, it’s all about choice.