____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Monday 22 October 2007 15:53 : \____
> On Oct 22, 6:04 am, "[H]omer" <s...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Why I've moved from Vista to Ubuntu 7.10, by Matt Loney
>>
>> .----
>> | I've been using Windows since it was battling for desktop supremacy
>> | with GEM in the early 90s. In the mid 90s I spent several years
>> | producing newspapers on Apple Macs. Since the late 90s I've dabbled
>> | with Linux, but there have always been compelling reasons to return
>> | to, or stick with, Windows. No more, for two reasons: Vista, and
>> | Ubuntu 7.10 (ala Gutsy Gibbon).
>> `----
>>
>> http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006214o-2000331758b,...
>>
>> Oh dear.
>>
>> Are there any tech any tech journos left running Vista, I wonder?
They are dropping like flies recently. Mass defection at ITWire (Aussie).
[Journalist:] The "ooww" stops now - goodbye Windows, hello Ubuntu
,----[ Quote ]
| I know there are lots of Linux distros out there but I chose Ubuntu because
| I'm a Linux newbie. If you know your way around Windows then it seems to be
| very easy to pick up.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14856/1086/
[Journalist:] Facing the full horror of Windows Vista
,----[ Quote ]
| So far, Transit has been using Vista Business full-time for a fortnight.
| And so far, we've found nothing that works better than in Windows XP,
| dozens of things that are annoyingly different without being a
| functional improvement, and several things that work at best
| intermittently and at worst not at all. On the whole, we wish
| we'd never moved.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12147/1101/1/0/
[Journalist:] Bye bye Windows I don't need you anymore
,----[ Quote ]
| I have some free time over Easter so maybe the holidays will be the
| beginning of a new and enduring relationship, as well as the
| finalization of a long overdue divorce.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/11128/1023/
[Journalist?:] Why I killed Vista for XP
,----[ Quote ]
| This is a Linux disc drive partition editor that sounds scary but is simple
| to use because you can run it directly from a CD.
|
| You need to download a disc drive image, burn it and then boot from the CD.
| After that, XP installed without a hitch.
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http://smallbusiness.smh.com.au/starting/finance/why-i-killed-vista-for-xp-897771398.html
>> --
>> K.http://slated.org
>>
>> .----
>> | "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
>> | make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
>> | -http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
>> `----
>>
>> Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) on sky, running kernel 2.6.22.1-41.fc7
>> 14:02:49 up 74 days, 12:57, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.41, 0.38
>
>
> Here's a quote:
> <Quote>
> * Why is Vista so slow (part 1)? On a brand new £1300 notebook built
> (one would think) with Vista in mind, the operating system should fly,
> especially when no applications are running. Not so; it's a complete
> dog. It's so slow that applications often won't register that I've hit
> the space bar until I'm halfway through the next word. I'm a fast
> typer, but not that fast.
> </Quote>
>
> 1300 GBP for a notebook! That's over $2600. He could have bought a
> Macbook Pro for a lot less than that. What amazes me is that word
> processors running 286 chips 15 years ago managed to keep up with your
> typing just fine. Someone was joking that Microsoft Windows in the
> year 2020 will require quantum computing and 10 terabytes of memory
> just to keep up with your typing. Regarding how slow Windows is,
> check out the what-you-expected, what-you-got at
>
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/10/21/wye-wyg-windows-vista-vs-mac-os-x-leopard/#more-723
> (you expected Vista that would run Windows apps, and OS/X that would
> run them, slowly; you got Vista that runs them, slowly, and OS/X that
> runs them...also you got Ubuntu...)
GBP1300, eh? Tesco sells Linux boxes for GBP130. I'd have ten, Sir. Build
meself [sic] a home cluster.
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