Comments - 3 moments in Vista that make me consider Linux

#1 /* 16 months, 4 days ago */

Ouch that doesn't look like much fun.... :-)

Andy S Anonymous User

#2 /* 16 months, 3 days ago */

I installed Vista on my Media PC thinking I might enjoy the newer MCE software 2 days later the only thing I was watching on my Media PC was a Windows XP Install screen.

I won't install windows vista again ever. I'll stick with XP it works. If I buy a prebuild system again and it comes with Vista I'll give it a try but there will be a vista sp2 by the time I buy a new PC.

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#3 /* 16 months, 3 days ago */

I am also wondering why you would try to burn 10 times before giving up? When I first got my current dell I burned one DVD it failed I looked up the model number online and found out it was a crap drive. Called dell the tech support guy he asked me to try stuff and burn about 3 DVDs I of course didn't waste my disks and just told him it failed to burn. Got a different brand drive in about a week. Installed it and haven't waisted a disk since. I tried burner built into windows xp once on my old computer the CD failed and I never tried it again. Disks are cheap but because of my Children's lack of discipline (2 year old) I have to keep all my computer disks in another room.

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#4 — Author comment /* 16 months, 3 days ago */

There are two modes of burning in Vista. There's the RAM-Disc/multisession approach that allows you to add files and the disc-at-once one where it writes all the files and finalises at the end. The multisession burning did work but it's incompatible with the DVD player I was trying to use the discs on. The DAO method is the criminally poor, hardly ever works method but it is compatible...

I guess I was just being an optimist expecting it to work if I tried it enough=)

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Oli Numero Uno

#5 /* 16 months, 1 day ago */

I tried Vista. The machine was an AMD64 3.4Gig, 1GIG RAM, all nvidia motherboard etc. With Vista - not everything worked correctly out of the box, drivers from box makers website were not fully functional, constant hard drive thrashing, programs taking up to, and in some cases, over a minute to load, constant crashing, games crashing, apps that wouldn't work at all, installed and then didn't work and so on. Despite being well able to cope with transparent window borders on Linux, Vista reported that part of the system "was not up to spec for Aero" and so it was disabled, enabling it made a noticable hit on the desktop response time. A complete nightmare. Quite the worst thing Microsoft have ever come out with in terms of an Operating System - on a level with that damned paperclip in Office. A truly stressful and horrid experience.

On the same box - Ubuntu Linux - everything works out of the box except 3d drivers which are easy to enable, hasn't crashed yet, flies like a hawk on speed, games play fine, apps take a couple of seconds to open. Beryl - the 3d window manager, works like a dream with many many more effects than Aero and all work without making the tiniest bit of difference to the system response times. It is a delight to use.

This is, I think, what the Americans would call "a no brainer".

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salparadise Normal User

#6 /* 16 months, 1 day ago */

To me there is only one way to run a computer.

1--Get a linux installation ( may take some time before you find the distro you like, and some more time to know what the heck you are doing-------I am NOT talking about the default install: that's a breeze )

2--get a) VMware or VirtualBox or Paralles workstaton or other type of virtualisation.
again, this takes some time

3--Install the kind of windows you like....

I was with windows from DOS3.....I do linux for 4 years.....I enjoy the best of 2 worlds.

As I said, it takes some time to " re-learn ".
But " re-learn " time is no longer that fixing 'things' and ' maintaining '

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antony pradoff Anonymous User

#7 /* 16 months, 1 day ago */

I had a system running Vista Ultimate that was connected to a video network that had a DVR and cameras at four different locations and I spent more time saying yes to stuff than anything else. The only real improvement was in the parental controls, which we used for non-admin user control.

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Scott Ruecker Anonymous User

#8 /* 16 months, 1 day ago */

I started my journey into Linux 6 years ago now, moving to using it full time at work 2 years ago. I work in the IT field and my position lets me decide what operating system to use without any windows monkey IT support staff forcing me to stick with microsoft's offerings, as happens in so many other companies.

There are sadly still some applications that I need to run in windows, for these I use Innotek's Virtualbox with XP sp2.

Linux has so many benefits it is hard not to talk about them without sounding like a fanboy, but once you adjust yourself from the windows way of doing things to Linux way of doing things you can really start to reap the rewards! You may then truly understand that the free in free software is not just the price but that the free cost is just the tip of the iceberg in to what it truly means and the many positive implications it has. I shall not lie it was a bumpy road that needed time to learn new things, but well worth it and with the progress Linux has made since the short time I have being using it that road has been smoothed out enormously.but that that is just the tip of the iceberb in to what it truly means and the many positive implications it has. I shall not lie it was a bumpy road but well worth it and with the progress Linux has made since I have used it hat road has been smoothed out enormous

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Oliver Anonymous User

#9 /* 16 months, 1 day ago */

The question I keep asking myself as I look jealously at the latest Linux releases is: how long will I force myself to use Windows?

Meh. If my parents, co-workers and nephew can migrate, so can you. Install Linux, install a virtual machine package (VMWare, VirtualBox*, whatever). Istall XP as a virtual machine and burn your Vista discs. If you have the hardware run Vista, you have the hardware to run XP as a virtual machine.

* The new VirtualBox can seemlessly integrate Windows apps on the Linux desktop, much like OSX's Parallels. I.e, you don't see the Windows desktop at all. You see the Windows app on your Linux desktop like any Linux app would.

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Sander Marechal Anonymous User

#10 /* 16 months, 1 day ago */

Return to windows XP.

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