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Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Of those seven, three run XP, one runs Ubuntu 6.06, two are now on Ubuntu 7.10, and one is Vista. Then how come I'm so much more at home with Ubuntu than Vista? Having used Ubuntu for the best part of a year, I'm a fan.
[October 22, 2007, 1:43]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Well, in the true Linux spirit of being helpful to other Linux users, I would recommend that you install Automatix as soon as you have finished installing your (K)ubuntu distro. I am so scared of Windows these days, that I would not even consider...
[October 24, 2007, 10:25]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I wouldn't go near Vista but I do have a RHEL server in the basement that never needs touching from one month to the next - a quick VNC or ssh occasionally is all it takes -- and I've got Ubuntu in a VM on my desktop, and in a second partition on...
[October 24, 2007, 18:55]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Well, in the true Linux spirit of being helpful to other Linux users, I would recommend that you install Automatix as soon as you have finished installing your (K)ubuntu distro. Before you do that (Automatix has been known to cause serious...
[October 24, 2007, 17:05]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Before you do that (Automatix has been known to cause serious stability issues that people then go on to blame on Ubuntu), try one of the new features in Gutsy:" Ubuntu isn't perfect - in some areas, it's still lagging behind XP.
[October 24, 2007, 21:14]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Startup time of Vista, fresh start or from "Hibernation" is VERY fast (way faster than any (regular) Linux distribution, and I always know the latest Ubuntu and OpenSuSE releases). The disk access - when it does lots of them - even seems to be...
[October 24, 2007, 6:45]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment And of course, Ctr+Alt+D does the same in ubuntu.o) It works in Vista and XP, and there's no need to Win+Shift+D to bring your windows back (like Win+Shift+U)! Why not use Win+D? Win+D - Show Desktop!
[October 24, 2007, 1:30]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Gibbon every time Vista is extremely slow, even on computers apparently designed for it. I've just realised that in my bitter rant about being stuck with Windows at work I haven't said what I think about 2Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon"
[October 22, 2007, 21:00]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I agree on all of the above, Vista is very sluggish, especially on start-up when compared to Ubuntu. Wonderful article. I think the problem really lies in all the extra junk Microsoft is trying to shove down your throat while trying to make you...
[October 22, 2007, 17:59]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Bring up the Adept Manager in Ubuntu. That's the kind of candy store Vista is. Microsoft's now promoting Vista with a campaign called "100 reasons why everyone's so speechless". Running Vista is like being in a candy store that only sells black...
[October 22, 2007, 16:39]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Strangely, no one has pointed out that there is one important UI area where Vista is far and away more advanced and capable than either XP, Linux, or even Mac OS: the tablet PC platform. Vista is the only OS for PC's (including Macs) that has...
[October 24, 2007, 4:58]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Here are my experiences.http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek/archives/dumping-vista-a-divorce-with-a-happy-ending-19844 http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek/archives/review-of-linux-distributions-19894
[October 24, 2007, 18:05]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I'm not a professional techie but I'm comfortable and reasonably knowledgeable about computers and I'm just furious about the load of crap that is Vista. Vista is horrible. I recently bought a beautiful new Dell laptop - the XPS M1330 with all the...
[October 24, 2007, 17:11]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment For years I have been skulking around in the shadows - getting Unix-type tools like Cygwin and Perl running on Windows, running copies of Solaris/x86 under VMware and setting up wacky third-party tools so that Windows servers can run batch jobs...
[October 24, 2007, 21:04]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment A few I recommend are: planet.ubuntu.com, planet.gnome.org, planetkde.org (for those who use KDE or Kubuntu). The thing I love the most about Linux distributions is the fact that pretty much all the software is free and open, and lots of it was...
[October 24, 2007, 15:15]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I spent a while "porting" this thing to Linux, and now the whole team is happy using Ubuntu/Debian/[insert your favorite distro here] instead of Windows. I discovered quickly it was mostly made of badly programmed Python scripts that didn't...
[October 24, 2007, 11:14]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Like you Rupert, I find myself in a mixed environment of various version of Windows (mainly XPs) and Linux (mainly RHELs and Ubuntus). While I agree on your take on Ubuntus ease of use, I have one major issue with it (on my Dell D420 laptop):
[October 24, 2007, 9:47]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment OneNote is a great piece of software. But I'm sitting in a room right now (in Munich): with thirty people, half of whom have laptops. Tablet PCs.well, it's true that MS has the best tablet tech (if you avert your eyes from the way Apple's going...
[October 24, 2007, 9:03]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment >Ubuntu goes out of its way to get out of your way, even if it doesn't succeed all the time. Also, Open Office, which I got chummy with the way I never got chummy with Micro$oft Office, works a lot better (particularly with some power fonts like...
[October 24, 2007, 3:49]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment In reply to the few above that talk of only being able to play games on Windows. Freespace 2, a popular vote for Sim Game of the Year in 1999, was made open-source a while back, and within a year, a crack team of 6-7 people who knew nothing of the...
[October 25, 2007, 16:54]
