ChannelWeb has published a helpful and accessible comparison of Windows Vista with Ubuntu, a version of Linux that is gaining acceptance among personal computer manufacturers and users.

Although it sounds like many computer users could make the switch to Linux, I’m not one of them. There are too many web sites that I use on a regular basis that require – or at least, work much better with – Internet Explorer. Most of these are Microsoft sites, but not all of them. When IE for Linux comes out, or when Firefox manages perfect emulation of IE, I’ll give Ubuntu another look.