Re: FN-FORUM: Help - MS Vista problems

date posted 27th April 2007 17:09

On Friday 27 Apr 2007 3:08 pm, Tom Miller wrote:

> 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.

I'm sure you're familiar with the arguments, but for those who aren't...
the peripheral manufacturers make sure it works with Windows, and=20
that's about as far as it goes...

> 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.

I can run a native LAMP stack and development environment on one CPU.
I get a whole bunch of apps that are a couple of mouse-clicks away withou=
t
any licensing hassle.
I get to live without the Registry.
I get choices and configurability.
I can login securely from anywhere, and run applications remotely.
I get all the power tools of the command line.
I laugh in the face of viruses.
And I can do all this on "obsolete" hardware.

Some of the above can be done by Windows, some of it by Macs, that's true=
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But those are some of my reasons.

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