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[News] Man Moves to Linux After Windows Vista Messes Itself Up

  • Subject: [News] Man Moves to Linux After Windows Vista Messes Itself Up
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:49:22 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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My first 64 bit experience

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| When Vista came, I installed it, and used HP's driver disk to install all 
| the necessary drivers. It looked great, but I noticed that my new,
| powerful "Windows Vista Premium Ready" computer was working hard enough 
| for my cooling fans to be running non-stop. Then I applied my old "XP 
| on steroids" method on Vista, then the network crapped out. I turned 
| off the Windows Workgroup, QOS Packet Scheduler, and IPv6 services, 
| and I could connect for about an hour at a time, with a speed of 6 
| BYTES/sec. I am on a T5 pipe! One day, about a week ago, I was 
| downloading a Xubuntu 7.04 CD for my old PC, to make it useful as 
| an SSH server. I got constant BSODs, and eventually Vista refused 
| to boot.
| 
| [...]
| 
| I am no Linux newbie. I am in the process of using my old computer 
| to roll my own distribution, Darkwave, that I have worked on from 
| scratch, based on a minimal install of Debian Etch. I have been 
| working with Linux for about 6 years, longer than I have with 
| Windows. For the record, I am running some variant of it on all 
| my PCs, and my PDAs. I'm not a fanboy, I respect both sides, bit 
| prefer the freedom of Linux.
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http://pplude92.blogspot.com/2007/06/my-first-64-bit-experience.html

The exodus...

Are You Getting Sick Of Microsoft Windows?

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| I have been running Ubuntu Linux now for 18 months and can’t see any reason 
| now to return to windows. Once you get past the mind set of using closed 
| source software a whole new world opens up before you and you realise that 
| amazing things are possible with linux.   
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http://uraliss.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/are-you-getting-sick-of-microsoft-windows-its-time-to-give-ubuntu-linux-a-whirl/
http://tinyurl.com/2tmzel

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