“Obviously, the number of early Vista adopters who also need to
run Maple is fairly small, but my experience with Maple points to a
few problems both with Vista and Linux. While Vista overall works
remarkably well and is slick, pretty and polished (if a bit
intrusive, just like those Mac vs. PC commercials say), software
and driver support still aren’t where they should be for the next
world-dominating operating system. Similarly, support for 64-bit
versions, although better than for XP Pro x64, remains fairly
dismal in driverland, despite increasingly common 64-bit processors
from both AMD and Intel.“Ubuntu (and Kubuntu, and Xubuntu), on the other hand, have come
a long ways in terms of overall support (still no native Flash
player for 64-bit Linux, though, and plenty of other
niggles)…”