Posted on 08/18/2007 6:28:28 PM PDT by sionnsar
My experience mirrors his. The number of drivers not working correctly (sound especially) and programs that called no longer existing functions became too annoying. Microsoft might have been ready with Vista, but most other companies were not ready to support it.
I’ve been hacking at Ubuntu 7.04 trying to get my wireless card to work on an older laptop. Getting it it do WPA/WPA2 has been really fun. My goal is to be able to move my main machine to Linux and run XP when needed in a VM on VMWare Workstation.
I don’t know how much longer they’ll do it, but Dell is still offering some laptops with XP. And they also offer some with Ubuntu preloaded.
Hmmm...I use Debian, and I just had to install KNetworkManager, and it is extremely simple to connect. Just right click on the system tray icon, and pick the network to which you want to connect. Put in your key if necessary, and you’re on. It remembers networks to which you have previously connected, too, and automatically reconnects.
My grandmother is running Windows 3.1 ... still ..... of course she’s not on the Internet but doesn’t want it ....
Oh, stop your whining. It is no harder than booting a system without a boot loader or a BIOS. From my experience it usually requires a breadboard, lots of wiring, some ugly tech manuals, and lots of NAND gates.
I would recommend that they just write the program themselves. Then they can write it with the update already in code and skip this little problem entirely!
What's stopping you??? Lots of "full install" of XP still available, either true retail or via E-bay.
I have a ‘free upgrade’ for Vista for my laptop, should I even bother to get it? I am heavely into graphics and on the computer all the time.
Just don’t know much about it and am happy with XP on my desktop computer.
Several manufacturers are making XP available through the end of the year.
On new desktop I just put together for home use ........ I use dual OS of Vista and XP Pro...... I have smaller / older desktops I used Ubuntu (linux) OS w/ open office. Those with Linux OS are screamers for just surfing the net and e-mail etc etc ....
The Vista OS is in dire need of tweeks that little Billy Gates seems to have forgotten. We don’t use it , but we have it. My bad spend of 2007 thus far !
Stay safe !
Vista was developed by little boys who grew up on Riddlin, kids who never milked a real cow, or eaten wheat that was rubbed in your hands and chewed. It’s not NORMAL, this Vista program, and the Dell folks pulled a fast one on me, I’ve gotten my first MacBook, and encourage anyone with 98.6 degrees in their bodies to dump Bill Gates and his monopolies and King of the Road attitude. Of course if you think Fruit Loops is high tech, full of fiber and good for your liver, you’ll probably like Vista.
I answered. I suspect I may have a few years on you. Might I suggest a small degree of softness in your language might avoid misunderstandings? Spam is a tad pejorative, no?
I can imagine. Unsupported (or poorly-supported) hardware is the source of pretty much all my Linux issues of late.
When you get it going -- will you publish it? It may be a help to others.
Simply saying one is inferior to the other would be like saying:
I drive both a Toyota Camry and a truk, and I've found the truk to be far inferior to the Camry.Depending on what you're doing, what matters to you, and which truck (I intentionally misspelled truck, mimic'ing your misspelling of Linux), there could be widely diverse answers as to why you preferred the car over the truck. A blanket, categorical "inferior" labeling doesn't tell us much.
I’m running Max OSX 10.4.10 and I see no compelling reason to downgrade to Vista.
Bill from NJ
Google = Linux. Better sell your Microsoft. The party’s over.
Regards, Ed
And guess what? The system runs slower than my XP Dell C840 from five years ago with an original Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz processor (however, I had put in the Hitachi’s ATA-5 100 GB brother last year that gave the system a complete rebirth).
Vista crashes more often, too. Well, specifically, it’s the Internet Explorer 7 that is crashing, up to three times a day.
I have virtually no programs installed on this since I bought it. So I know there aren’t “conflicts” of any sort.
I turned off all energy saving features, hoping it would bring back the speed I expected to see. It didn’t.
Please stay away from Vista as long as possible. Upgrade to 64-bit XP if you have a system that supports it (basically all AMD systems do and virtually all Intel desktops have for the past six months to a year).
Vista makes things seem very slow. And this is Vista Ultimate 64-bit, the best of the best for Vista.
I now fixes will come, but I doubt they will make this system fly as it would with XP.
My two cents worth.
Darth Gates will find his lack of faith disturbing.
It’s good you’ve gone to the Max. *\;-)
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