I’m probably gonna go Vista anyway, most peoples problems seem to be that it’s slow (but I have silly amounts of power in my pc) or that DUN DUN DUN it’s windows, evil, evil windows which seems to screw everyone over apart from me. I refuse to jump on the band wagon. I’ve always used windows and I’ve never once had a problem with it so I see no reason to change.
Also, macs mouses “suxxors” for gaming, and I am a game freak.
Oh, and as for Mac mouses: they do suck, aggressively. (Lets pretend I didn’t just use a Brazilian slang in an English phrase, shall we? ) Macs are awesome in the sense that they assume the regular user is as smart as a frog. It sucks for the very same reason—when you want to do something pro, you either buy expert software for gazillions of dollars, or learn seriously pro computer engineering concepts to deal with your overprotective environment.
Yes defiantly many helpful Linux forums out there… If you need help with a specific error you can use google too… (Personal Experience Here) If you search [Ubuntu “The Error Message Or thing causing the problem”] Including the quotes I’d be shocked if many articles explaining how to fix the problem didn’t come up. Even if they don’t just post in a Linux forum, many people there actually enjoy the challenge of solving problems…
I agree there is probably some background service that detects and configures that… You can do this in XP anyway! Although it has a pain-in-the-a*** tendency to use each page file one after another, great there windows… because using all page files at the same time wouldn’t improve performance or anything…
Heh I’m not anti-windows at all… It’s just I find Linux smoother and less crash prone. Also Windows gives dire warning that your computer might explode if you try to run something you downloaded from somewhere that hasn’t signed the file. In linux I have only ever had 1 dire warning when I was messing with the innards and nearly un-installed the kernel whistles but the warning made me laugh, “You will be hosing your system” lol, I got the message without feeling it was the end of the world.
I actually have a Dual-boot system (One that can start XP And Linux ) I get the benefits of playing games in windows and the smoothness of Linux [Once you get it set up] for day to day activities… I have 14 programs running on Linux right now and it is still useable… god only knows the state windows would be in under the same pressure. (They aren’t empty text files either… most are web-browser windows and have many tabs open in them too.)
BTW I don’t use Ubuntu and I have heard it is more user friendly than the Linux I use. So if what I have said has confused you don’t worry you really don’t need to do what I have done to get it working… actually I was a total Newbie to Linux about 5 weeks ago and I still managed to overcome driver problems with my Wireless Internet… Because my manufacturer decided Linux wasn’t worthy of drivers Don’t panic if you get it installed and not everything works… there are many “do this then that” guides to fix the problem…
I guess I’m anti-everything. I hate macs for their non-upgradable features and shitty compatibility with what I have, and I hate Linux simply because I’ve never used it and it’s foreign to me, lol. I grew up on Windows, and granted I hated everything except what I have now, Windows XP, I think it’s still the prime choice. (Vista, being an exception.)
I guess I’ve just gotten used to XP since I’ve used it from release. Why switch operating systems if you already have a favorable one? (unless companies turn annoying and start only making software/games for Vista…that will really piss me off)
I can’t call it worthless, but it certainly is much less mature than WinXP was at its release.
Had problems with the window manager crashing from time to time, weird windows networking problems etc. Moreover it was slow, much slower than XP, so i’m just leaving it unused on a separate partition for now, despite the license actually being legit (no, i didn’t pay for it).
Maybe in half a year or so i’m running windows update on it and giving it another chance.
But to anyone wanting to run it - I’d say 1,5 gigabytes of RAM is an absolute minimum. It consumes above 400MB cold booted!!!
also, wondows systems always come with annoying trial sofware that nags you to buy it. MACAFEE I WILL NOT BUY YOU! There was, as far I could see, no way to uninstall it, so I tried using some program to delete the program files of it… didn’t work. Still pops up, but when you try to scan with Macfee it comes up witha blank white window.
it runs extraordinarily well and all my AV and Firewalls seem to be working fine the only thing i can’t stand is
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Would you sign this legal document send it to microsoft and wait for a reply within 28 days consenting you want to in fact run this program from an unknown publisher that is in fact NOT microsoft or would you like to just chunk your PC out the window.