My experience with Vista.
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| The other problem I have is how increadibly slow Vista was. We got a laptop
| with only a gig of RAM. Only a gig. and it ran slower than a snail in
| quicksand.
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| [...]
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| Yet the thing that struck me was when she said “What are people going to do
| now that Microsoft isn’t supporting XP? What are people going to do, are we
| going to be stuck using Vista even if we don’t want to?” I told her I run
| Ubuntu at home and it accomplishes 100% of my tasks in a cleaner, safer (no
| viruses / spyware), without cost, and she couldn’t believe me.
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http://admiralchicago.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/my-experience-with-vista/
Windows and Linux on one PC: Partners or rivals?
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| "All popular distributions include highly powerful partitioning tools for
| splitting up the hard drive," says Nils Magnus, another member of LinuxTag.
| He therefore recommends that beginners try a version of Linux whose
| partitioning tools include strong help functions.
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/85391.html
Related:
Buying a new PC? 'Windows Vista Capable' barely hits the mark
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| Microsoft's on-the-box minimum RAM requirement "really isn't
| realistic," according to David Short, an IBM consultant who works
| in its company's Global Services Divison. He says users should
| consider 4GB of RAM if they really want optimum Vista performance.
| With 512MB of RAM, Vista will deliver performance that's
| "sub-XP," he warned.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011523
http://tinyurl.com/2x29tu
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