Re: FN-FORUM: Help - MS Vista problems

date posted 27th April 2007 15:27

You're not wrong dude! I'm another lots of OS's guy and I'd have to
agree that linux is a simpler server solution while vista gives a
polished desktop experience but I'd add that lately my deadmoo osx
install is competing to take over my laptop uptime.
/rob

On 27 Apr 2007 14:08:03 -0000, Tom Miller [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Due to the nature of how I use my pc I guess. I design and code
> obviously, but I also enjoy the odd bit of counterstrike :)
>
> I also use it as a media centre pc with my xbox 360. Plus, I use Cubase
> and Traktor to compose (bad) music.
>
> So my machine has 2 sound cards, a TV card, runs 3 monitors through 2
> g/cards, plus has my printer, scanner, webcam, bluetooth dongle etc all
> through usb. I've never got all that hardware working on any other OS.
>
> Linux is fine if what you need is in rpms or deb files - after that it
> becomes a nightmare. All my webservers run Linux without an xserver, so
> I know a lot about configuring Linux from the command line and compiling
> installs.
>
> In the same way I can't see why people would want to run a windows web
> server, I can't see why anyone would want to run a linux desktop.
>
> My laptop actually has ubuntu as a dual boot with XP. I used it for
> about 2 weeks but don't bother anymore after the novelty ran out.
>
>
> Tom.
>
>
>
>
> Dom Latter wrote:
> > On Thursday 26 Apr 2007 5:36 pm, Tom Miller wrote:
> >
> >
> >> since October - hardly any problems. In fact, I've run every MS
> >> operating system since Windows 3.1 , plus OSX 8, 9, tiger, Redhat 7,8,9,
> >> Fedora 1/2/3/4/5/6, Ubuntu, Debian....None of them beat Vista as a
> >> desktop OS in my experience (having used them all).
> >>
> >
> > Interesting - is it possible to say why, without it turning into an essay?
> >
> >
>
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