What can Windows do that Linux can't?

[Hated On Mostly]

Secure wipe a drive using a GUI.

[dannyvanleur]

Blu-ray playback

[jtarin]

Secure wipe a drive using a GUI.

Name the application.

[jtarin]

Blu-ray playback

VLC plays them and its cross-platform.

[Lucradia]

Secure wipe a drive using a GUI.

One word: DBAN, because I don't know a GUI app on Windows that can secure wipe a drive for free.

Also, DBAN technically is a linux distribution.

[Hated On Mostly]

Name the application.

CCleaner

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

One word: DBAN, because I don't know a GUI app on Windows that can secure wipe a drive for free.

Also, DBAN technically is a linux distribution.

CCleaner

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

There are actually a few other free ones that secure wipe a drive with a GUI from within Windows.

On Linux you have to load a live CD (Parted Magic or DBAN) in order to use a GUI app to secure wipe a secondary drive. You can't just install DBAN into Ubuntu through the repositories and use it.

[Hated On Mostly]

gscan2pdf does exactly that - and does it very well

@Whoever said there were ocr quality issues:
Can't say I find any difference in the quality of OCR between windows and linux - the tesseract engine is common on both platforms.

The Windows programs have a lot of features such as deskew that auto-correct poor scans. On Linux you generally have to go use a separate program or try to configure a buggy plugin to correct scans.

On the Windows programs character recognition is excellent, especially on poor documents, poor scans, and foreign languages. File size is greatly reduced while maintaining high visual quality.

@Hated On:
You are correct there is no native linux version - Acrobat 9 Pro is trivial to configure in wine

Windows vs Linux is a moot point for me as if I ever switch back to Linux I would use VMWARE for virtualization. Virtualization works well on even low-powered systems these days. If you have 2GB of RAM, you can use just about any program seamlessly and comfortably from any operating system you want. Without virtualization however I would have to stick with Windows. Windows is great for getting work done and more importantly getting it done easily.

[x-shaney-x]

HDMI output to external TV with sound.

At least not reliably or without extra faffing about.

[beew]

Forcing PC manufactures to lock down their machines so it can run Windows only. Not to mention laying traps to spy on you and prevent you from running things on your machine.

[Lucradia]

On Linux you have to load a live CD (Parted Magic or DBAN) in order to use a GUI app to secure wipe a secondary drive. You can't just install DBAN into Ubuntu through the repositories and use it.

That's logical because when wiping a drive, you shouldn't wipe it while using the/any drive. I don't need to secure wipe USB Drives, because no one I know in real life actually tracks me save for my troll parents.