Perhaps, perhaps not...
I suggest you read the website and the comparisons...
OS wars are pathetic...it's already been won by market share. If you want to talk hardware performance, I'm in. But hardware performance is not something you seem to want to talk about. You guys end up switching to talking about OS's, or politics, or about anything but hardware performance. I'll say it again... computing performance starts with hardware, not your OS. If Jobs would come out with a version of OSX that anyone could buy without having to buy his premade box, I'd check it out. I have plenty of drives around. I'm not that militant about which OS I use, I just appreciate using the best hardware that I can get my hands on to build my boxes. Thanks for the friendly ping.