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As much as I hate to admit it, in some aspects the author is right. I haven’t used trillian and textpad and I gave iTunes a try but I still stick with Winamp, XMMS and Amarok but in regards to Windows I do have to admit you have a point. I have been an Ubuntu user for almost 2 years now, but I believe it still has a lot to go until it can be a good alternative to Windows. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the extraordinary evolution and adoption they had since they started and I simply love their goals and philosophy, but until games and hardware companies start supporting Linux we still have a long road ahead, and these are just to name a few. The problem is that normal users don’t want geeky stuff, but such things can still be found in Ubuntu, however less and less with each of their releases, so kudos to them, I hope they keep it up.
With OpenOffice.org I had a different experience, I am currently using it both on Windows and on Linux and I am happy with how it works, for the usual stuff I do, like keeping some simple sheets and writing a few documents, it’s just great and it is not even that slow.

It's sort of unfair to pit Pidgin against Trillian on Windows since Pidgin is first and foremost a UNIX IM client. Libpurple opens up the possibility of doing something like Adium, but right now it's at the mercy of the quality of the GTK+ libraries on Windows.

Seems odd that the first two would have gone to Gaim & OSX except the author uses windows. That's hardly being agnostic and only considering the quality of teh software...

as an aside to DZone, why let me fill out a comment form when you know I'm not logged in. So when I submit it, I have to instead log in, and my comment has to be written all over again. This is broken.