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Windows Vista - Here I Go Again!
Blog Comment It comes to something when my wee Eee running a much-hacked-about Ubuntu consistently beats an expensivo Sony with Vista. Ah, now, I just tried to run Skype on my VIsta laptop and it didn't want to know about the webcam.
[February 19, 2008, 14:15]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Vista is horrible. I recently bought a beautiful new Dell laptop - the XPS M1330 with all the bells and whistles - running Vista (XP was not offered as an option). I'm not a professional techie but I'm comfortable and reasonably knowledgeable about...
[October 24, 2007, 17:11]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment RE: the Vista shutdown lameness, there's a whole story on that: http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html I won't defend Vista, but on a Sony laptop? cmon.it would probably run better on your old Compaq.
[October 24, 2007, 0:25]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Gibbon every time Vista is extremely slow, even on computers apparently designed for it. When I've tried it on computers not designed for Vista it seems to spend its time telling me how bad my hardware is.
[October 22, 2007, 21:00]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Microsoft's now promoting Vista with a campaign called "100 reasons why everyone's so speechless". Here's the link if anyone wants to take a look: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/100reasons.mspx (Thanks to Mary-Jo Foley on...
[October 22, 2007, 14:57]
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]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Hey, I'm not sore about the hardware, I actually find a lot to like in WIndows XP, I'm not holding my breath for Leopard, and I did remove enough bloatware to keep a liposuctionist busy for a week. My point is that the change is such that, combined...
[October 22, 2007, 21:56]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment There is a clear story emerging here of people seem to be - as I was - genuinely surprised by their relative experiences running Vista and a Linux distribution. This simply didn't happen with Windows XP, and that makes it all the more remarkable.
[October 23, 2007, 0:34]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment So with Vista Microsoft took a much larger effort towards system access and security. There is a reason Windows takes up a large amount of ram to do what it does. When a user does not have write access to Program Files, Windows will store...
[October 22, 2007, 13:32]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment On my computers at home I'm running XP on the desktop, Ubuntu 7.04 on the LAMP server and two laptops, one running OS X and one running Ubuntu 7.10. I like Ubuntu A LOT, it's so easy to install and configure.
[October 22, 2007, 17:02]
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 If you're dependent on specialist software that will only run on one platform, then there's not much you can do about that - and I'd expect the cost of that software to dwarf any concerns about the Windows tax.
[October 22, 2007, 18:44]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Reasons You Should Switch to Ubuntu: I haven't really been keeping track, but so far it seems that "Windows media center has a remote control! I'm glad the windows people aren't running the linux campaign:
[October 22, 2007, 21:34]
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. Sure, you won't be able to find many popular games out there being supported by game designers, but the ones you do find are GEMS.
[October 25, 2007, 16:54]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I use Ubuntu at home to run a mail server, a webserver, SQL server, file server and printer server, and on a laptop, in fact I'm using it now and I think it's fantastic, I will never pay for a copy of Windows for home use again.
[October 22, 2007, 20:53]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I've been looking for a way to move away from Outlook in our predominantly Windows network, which to my limited research has proved quite difficult. Rupert: What package do you use for Exchange email integration?
[October 23, 2007, 17:19]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment My biggest problem going all in to Linux is that I use a windows mobile smartphone for everything. I myself hate windows on both a user and philosophical level. It syncs to Outlook. I also have Itunes that sync to my IPOD.
[October 24, 2007, 14:50]
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 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 used to work in a corporation where I was initially given a Windows 2000 PC.
[October 24, 2007, 11:14]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment My organization has a Windows infrastructure (mail, authentication, networking), nevertheless I had a dual boot desktop with Ubuntu that happily co-existed with the environment. As a matter of fact I stopped booting into Windows and it was all good.
[October 25, 2007, 5:30]
