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Re: Vista question
de Mark Carter 06/25/2006 09:45
The Wizard wrote:
> Heh!, You've posted to a newsgroup for paupers (All software must be free
> and they probably have hand-me-down PC's to run rubbish on as it won't run
> modern software)
I do use hand-me-down PCs - although my main machine was bought new in
2002. We live in such a profligate society. Come the recession, we might
not be so wasteful.
> Seriously though, I think it's 2007 and yes it does slow even a prety fast
> PC down, A bit like 98 to XP did.
Not usre that makes it right, though. From what I hear, even a
high-specced machine is going to have trouble with Vista. Which may not
be a bad thing for those who want Vista to fail ... people like ME, for
example.
> Don't mention Linux,Never even tried that after the desktop screen looked so
> awful.
It's no so bad, oh fussy one. KDE does look a bit like a multi-coloured
lollipop, it's true - but it';s quite good. Gnome looks more restrained,
and I'd hardly say it's aweful. XFCE is even more toned down. It looks
sleek, and it's faster than the other two. Then there's the
ultra-minimalise desktops (Rat Poison, Ion2, etc.) in which there's very
little to dislike.
My KVM switch is acting strange as of late, so I decided to make my
Xubuntu into a server, and now access it via putty.
> It's just for people that want to be different (and get stuff for free of
> course)
As opposed to people who like to pay for stuff that they can get for
free anyway??
For real, there's stuff that Linux does better than Windows. /Some/
driver support is better in Linux - and you get a lot of useful software
with it, ready to go. With the Debian-based distros, software is just an
apt-get install away. That's vastly better than Windows.
> Better the devil you know I say,
Hmmm, not an entirely convincing argument.
> If everyone switched to Linux tomorrow and
> ditched MS, They too would see the $$$$ signs and start charging heaps for
> it.
No they wouldn't. AFAIK, Linux is under the GPL. Anyone could fork it
tomorrow. And besides, there are already commercial distributions of
Linux, which already charge for it. But you can still get Linux for free.
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