Re: FN-FORUM: Help - MS Vista problems

date posted 27th April 2007 15:40

I might just have to investigate deadmoo :)

Rob Thijssen wrote:
>
> 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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