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Re: [News] Linux Seems a Better Choice Than Windows Vista

  • Subject: Re: [News] Linux Seems a Better Choice Than Windows Vista
  • From: Peter Hayes <not_in_use@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:18:21 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Zzzzz
  • References: <1253730.qCm3iGDHFy@schestowitz.com>
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  • Xref: news.mcc.ac.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:1157902
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:50:24 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote
(in article <1253730.qCm3iGDHFy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

> Want Vista? Get Ubuntu.
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>> Having spent the last 2 weeks or so toying with Vista RC1, I have
>> had something of an epiphany.

I put RC1 on my shuttle PC. With all the reboots, etc, it took longer to 
install than to download.

Neither of my DVB-T tuners install due to driver problems. Hopefully the 
manufacturers will release Vista compatible drivers before too long, because 
there's no way I'm buying new hardware. 

Commercial DVDs  play but without sound, just a lot of crackling, although 
DVDs I burn play fine.

Agent 4 doesn't work if I accept the default installation location. It seems 
users aren't allowed to write to C:\Program Files any more. Agent works if I 
install it to C:\Users\peter\Agent.

Since users aren't allowed to write to C:\Program Files any more much 
software is going to fail. This is the price we pay for a shambolic 
installation paradigm. Perhaps Microsoft could learn from Apple's 
installation packet system with everything in one folder.

-- 

Peter


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