Bill "The Bastard" Gates

Dippersripper said:
I'm talking about your idiotic statement that Windows supports more hardware than linux.
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It does for him. Jesus.

By the time it took him to get his Dell laptop running half as well with your new Linux distro he would have died through old age. Half the crap in Dells is proprietary hardware that only Dell can support, thats the point. Its out there generally but this guy wouldnt even know where to start.

Its bad advice, ok, are we done now?
 
2Bullish said:
It does for him. Jesus.

By the time it took him to get his Dell laptop running half as well with your new Linux distro he would have died through old age. Half the crap in Dells is proprietary hardware that only Dell can support, thats the point. Its out there generally but this guy wouldnt even know where to start.

Its bad advice, ok, are we done now?
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Fair enough. I agreed with you except for that statement.
 
Just checked and some Dell Inspiron's are shipping ubuntu. The best bet is to check the liveCD.
 
@Mihajlovic If you don't want to learn a new OS, you can just UPGRADE to XP.
 
Dippersripper said:
@Mihajlovic If you don't want to learn a new OS, you can just UPGRADE to XP.
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yea man, I think that's the best thing to do really.

one curious thing on my laptop (vista OS), whenever I play a song on the WM player, the last 10 seconds of the songs are always breaking up, so I googled it and found that loads of people have the same problem.

i dont know much about computers but how difficult can it be to sort that out. never happened on XP.

and it's basically little things like that. it takes me 15 seconds to delete a simple small file. it comes with a message "CALCULATING TIME REMAINING"... omg.
 
Have you installed Service Pack 1 for Vista? Failing that, just try reinstalling Vista. It is a better OS than XP when there aren't problems like the one you're talking about.

About the other option - to be honest, it's really not worth trying Linux. I gave it a go with my PC a while back, but gave up, so I'll probably give it a go on the PS3 instead.

The main reason I say that though, is because one of my mates said he needed XP but couldn't afford it, so a more technical nerd-type came in and installed Ubuntu on his PC. Needless to say, he didn't have the foggiest how computers worked, and was totally fecked when he tried to run Ubuntu.

There's nothing wrong with it, but it's so fundamentally different to Windows that you have to learn how to use it again, and most people I know have enough trouble trying to make Windows work. If you're happy to dedicate half of your life to it for the next 6 months, then that's fine, but I wouldn't recommend it otherwise.
 
ive just installed vista...take that dipper :lol:

@Mihajlovic dont switch to the linux bollox, just install xp service pack 3.
 
Vista is fecking shit. I am using iT currently because I had to buy a new notebook. And because of the shit partitions on this computer, so far I have been unable to install Ubuntu. :mad:
 
LINUX may be wonderful and stable etc but it isn't suitable for most of us.

XP has been great for me and I have been really impressed with my son's iMac. I might even go Mac next time I need a computer.
 
Wibble said:
LINUX may be wonderful and stable etc but it isn't suitable for most of us.

XP has been great for me and I have been really impressed with my son's iMac. I might even go Mac next time I need a computer.
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I know. I also have no time for people who are constabtly trying put down Windows. It is still the best OS for general public given not everyone can afford a MAC.
 
However.. Microsoft decide to scrap XP despite it's being far more stable and less consuming than Vista :wenger:

from wiki
As per Microsoft's posted timetable, the company stopped general licensing of Windows XP to OEMs and terminated retail sales of the operating system on June 30, 2008, 17 months after the release of Windows Vista.[60][61] However, an exception was announced on April 3, 2008, for OEMs installing to subnotebooks or UMPCs either until June 30, 2010, or one year after the availability of the next client version of Windows, code-named Windows 7 — whichever date comes later.[62][63][64]
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System, Hardware interfacing, high end solution - Linux

Application and Services side - Windows.

Apparently application and services market command huge demand in the public sector and windows caters the needs. But Microsoft has also done well to supports API's for low level programming, its the programmers who are reluctant to subsribe them as they dont wanna get in to the msn clique.

Some two or three years back, NYSE took a bold step to step out of mainframes and opting for open systems and they were busy in migrating their applications to Linux. I am not sure whey they were sucessful in their attempts, heard they finally gave it up.

Even Linux international are using only Windows in their front office systems.
 
Good thing I have xp on the disc. I'll be using it for the next 5-10 years
 
I didn't read pages 2 and 3, but Weaste seems to be one of those mac users
 
Alex said:
I do as well, have 3 computers on XP and one on Vista, just about everything is better on XP imo
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My brother has Vista. His system has better components, but mine is faster.

Never had any issues with xp, for the past 3 years I believe. It has never frozen. Ever.
 
Nistelrooy10 said:
My brother has Vista. His system has better components, but mine is faster.

Never had any issues with xp, for the past 3 years I believe. It has never frozen. Ever.
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My Vista is my current No.1 no problems as of yet, it's just harder to use imo, and I dont like Office on it. Prefer my 1A computer thats on XP, having probs at the moment though, keeps going from 2% usage to 85-90+%(quick freezes, but they happen quite often), any ideas why that is happening
 
Do you have too many programs or may be tabs in firefox open at the same time? If you do, if you close one, the usage will skyrocket, and it might appear to freeze, but those are just memory issues.
 
Nistelrooy10 said:
Do you have too many programs or may be tabs in firefox open at the same time? If you do, if you close one, the usage will skyrocket, and it might appear to freeze, but those are just memory issues.
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I think so, how do I correct this without fecking up my ITunes, that said this problem started when I left ITunes running for ten days and didnt use this computer I go back and it's acting all weird, dont really know what to do ran a few virus scans, nothing weird it seems, but I dont really know were to go from there
 
Alex said:
I think so, how do I correct this without fecking up my ITunes, that said this problem started when I left ITunes running for ten days and didnt use this computer I go back and it's acting all weird, dont really know what to do ran a few virus scans, nothing weird it seems, but I dont really know were to go from there
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I'm not sure, I'm not the type of person to ask those kinds of questions. Ask one of the geeks on this thread, you and I are too cool for this type of stuff
 
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