Today I was pointed to an article giving 10 reasons to use Windows Vista by a topic over at OSNews. I have read the reasons, and they may very well be factual. My opposition of them mostly derives from the fact that the capabilities listed are nothing new or special. Many of them have been around for a decade, if not more, on existing systems.
When considering the present needs of most home users, Sun’s ZFS is no doubt overkill. Developed for Sun’s powerful Solaris operating environment, ZFS brings truly advanced filesystem technologies to the masses. For some background with respect to the benefits and capabilities that ZFS offers, I’d have to recommend an article I read today that briefly introduces ZFS. With recent versions of Mac OS X reportedly offering some degree of ZFS support, it will likely see increasing use on what can be considered typical home computers.
I have really started to look forward to the release of KDE 4. For a number of years now I have used KDE as my primary desktop. My main reasons for using it are that it is very well integrated, and it otherwise is of a very high quality. I haven’t performed any formal benchmarking, but I do think it is more responsive than GNOME. One study have indicated that KDE actually uses less memory than GNOME in many cases. Perhaps this extends to its need for CPU resources, as well.