Vista or linux

After seeing this which way would you lean?



I'm still using XP - I think I'll stick to that for a while longer.

 

I know very few people who've had a happy experience with Vista, while
that may also be true of Linux, so I'd stay with the OS that works. XP
will never die I tell you.

 

More's the fucking pity.

D.

 

I can't get Solidworks for Linux, I can't get Dragon Naturally Speaking
or use my phone properly with Linux. There's no Microsoft office suite
with Linux... and a multitude of other useful programs like Mathcad.

It's good for people, in as much it gives them something to bleat on
about.. the whipped underdog. It's good for that, and some odd little
hand held devices + server type machines.

When the big software houses make useful apps for it, more people who
aren't geeks will adopt.

 

You can add me to the list. Installed Vista Ultimate 64 on a new box &
everything just works.


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And me, I'm using 32 bit Home Premium. Once you have a quick fiddle
with the UAC it all seems to work well enough.

 

I just bought my 80 year old father a Vista based Dell.

He loves it - thinks its ace.

Mum has a new laptop, again with Vista on and she has no complaints at
all. Everything worked off the bounce.

My homebrew PC is a bag of shit with Vista biz on it and it locks up
horribly all the time, but I suspect thats my fault more than the OS.
My MacBook is ace, and I keep thinking of getting a iMac to replace
the PC, but there is some stuff on the Mac thats just not good enough
for me, there is always VMWare I 'spose.

 

*ding*

There's not much point in stating the bleeding obvious. The problem is
that you'll always get someone harping on about how MS is shite and
Mac/Linux are great. It's an old record now.

 

Drivers - it's always drivers.

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Probably more to do with me messing with the default permissions in the
registry.

I use the PC as a bit of a hack, and am always installing and testing
shit on it - im not blaming Vista at all, its the way that I treat the
thing.

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For the rest: Citroen Belingo

 

That was what stopped me making the move for a long time, till I
realised all that shite is on my office PC at work. Spreadsheeting et
al the OpenOffice/MySql works fine.

The only criticism, if you're a gamer your stuck.

 

Why did you ditch XP?

 

I wanted 64 bit, & XP64 driver support is woefully lacking (& likely to
remain so).

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All three are just operating systems. Unless you're really into playing
with your OS/PC, I wouldn't go down the Linux route. If you're sticking
with your existing hardware, I'd stay with XP for the time being. If
you're upgrading then it's either Vista or OS X.

Want to try Linux without formatting your HD? If your workstation has
512MB or more RAM, try VMware. The server edition is free, will let you
create a virtual machine in which you can run one of the many Linux
distros. Probably best starting with Ubuntu or Fedora.

Want to try some of the open source software? Many of the bigger apps
can now be run on Windows OS e.g. Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Gimp
etc.

Regards,

Tim B

 

<shrug>

I play Solidworks and Mathcad... games are best left to consoles.

 

I know, it can be a bit tiresom. I'm more likely to just give them a
bright smile and say something like 'Oh, right.' these days. Life is too
short to make space in your head for stuff like that.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Krusty

<waves>

 

One of the reasons I went to SUSE. But it has to be said, XP was a rock
solid operating system.

 

That's because people mostly only moan when things go wrong - everyone
else keeps quiet.

 

If someone's going to try Ubuntu, then VMware isn't necessary[1]. Either
run the LiveCD or choose the "install within Windows" option - which
creates a file X big and installs the OS into that. It will then install
a boot loader to make it dual boot. Don't like it? Boot to Windows and
do the normal uninstall from Add/Remove Programs, and everything gets set
back to normal.

The only issue I've had with Ubuntu so far is that it didn't support my
wireless card straight away. So I plugged it into the router via a cable,
which it detected, informed me there were updates, including a new driver
for the wifi card, and then after a reboot everything was hunky dory.

[1] Unless you want to run both at the same time.