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Well, I will look seriously at the MacOS. I do not like Vista, at all.
FWIW - I've two Mac's [someday in next few months that will be three, after model is updated, and has gone through its paces], have "sold" my mom on two, my brother on one, and a few friends and strangers also. On the MS side, I will admit that I do like XP - solid and dependable, does what I need, how I need it for those apps. But, when come home, its all good and when the MacBook or the iMac welcome me...
Also, when time allows, am quite interested in doing more and learning more about Linux...
I have a new dell with Vista-and a dell with xp. I like the old one because everything
works, and I know how to use it, somewhat. Vista, is different, but I have found the Dell
help line great.
I have a new dell with Vista-and a dell with xp. I like the old one because everything
works, and I know how to use it, somewhat. Vista, is different, but I have found the Dell
help line great.
Well...isn't this a small world! I also have a newer Dell with Vista and an older Dell with XP. I like the newer one better...much faster. Vista takes a little getting used to though, but not too hard. There are LOTs of Vista blogs out there that can answer your questions.
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Well, here's what I've got to say....take it however you want.
My PC..Toshiba satellite...1.8 gig centrino..3 gig ram 256 nvidia card.
Had Vista on it since I got it. My other two PC's have XP.
Vista sucks.
I don't like confirming everything twice. So I turned off UAC.
I have a problem with deleting folders and files. Vista tells me I don't have permission to do this. When I reboot, I have permission to do it. Somehow, when I use a file in Vista, it sinks its meathooks in it, and won't let go..until I reboot. Or it won't let the program let it go. So I have to reboot. I know there's a hack for this. I don't care. I shouldn't have to hack a folder to gain permission, when I'm already logged on as admin. I don't have to hack Ubuntu. I don't have to hack XP.
Vista.. has randomly lost my CD drive...twice. System restore...and there it is again...for a few more months.
About two weeks ago, all new USB devices that I attached asked for "drivers."
USB sticks...yeah...needed a driver. Hard drives? Yeah, needed a driver. I have a Freeagent drive on it. It sees it fine. I buy another Freeagent....and it needed a driver. Bullsh-t. Vista just took a massive crap is all.
I had to spend quite a bit of time googling an answer....deleting this...copying that...blah..blah blah... finally I end up directing my hardware to find the driver in the winsxs folder. It flashes a red 'YOU"RE GOnnA ReGReT THIS!!!" and I do it anyways, and the drive works fine.
This same drive has worked in XP....with no issues...for 12 months.
F....vista. I ordered another copy of XP from Tigerdirect yesterday. Goodbye, you crappy piece of crap. I had it for one year. And it sucks.
It's slow as crap, too.
And I can't play Gears of War on it. It keeps locking up after a few seconds. I have the right drivers. Vista just hates Gears of War on a Toshiba, I suppose.
And I hate readyboost. With a passion. I turn the computer on and I watch this thing load a game. A game I played the last 3 nights. It's loading like crazy. I want to create a document. I'm trying...and the hard drive is just spinning and I'm waiting for Office to load...but it can't....because readyboost is sucking up all 7200 RPM loading a game that I'm not going to play.
Goodbye, you crappy piece of crap.
Edit....
You know, I learned to program in BASIC on a TRS-80. I've had a computer since I was 13...and that was 23 years ago. And I think the only thing I can compare Vista to ...that just keeps pissing me off this bad....is Windows ME. And ME sucked big, meaty meatballs.
It definitely sad to see stable OS like Windows XP go. I think some small shop are still selling XP. I will try go to my University Computer Store and see if I can buy 2 or 3 copies of Windows XP Pro (Cost me only $20 for copy of XP).
Windows Vista isn't really cut out for task of fully replacing XP. At my work place we aren't moving to Vista anytime soon. In fact, we wipe all vista of ALL computer we get put back Windows XP Pro on. Our Server, running Orcale, run on Unix/unix-like systems (solaris, BSD, etc). Running Orcale on windows sound like bad idea to me.
Like said I hope stock up on Windows XP, so I keep on using on my future computers till I see something better come out.
I have used tons of Linux Systems (Solarix, Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE, Mandrake, Knoppix, Debian, Ubuntu) and they work for most task. However, sadly most of my games are for Windows XP. Some them DON'T work well on Vista as there some older games. In fact once in awhile I still play original version of Starcraft written win95 or win98 (I forget). Another reason I still use Windows XP is because I watch High resolution Anime video file (1080p) and CCCP codec gives BEST performance. Nothing in Linux (Mplayer, VLC, Gstreamer, etc) can play these files smoothly on computer. But CCCP under windows play it just fine.
This is main reason I use Windows XP Pro still. If fairly well versed in computer and don't want play games/watch Anime go for Linux systems. They are super stable, great for developer and running servers.
I personally don't really like Mac either, I think they more and more becoming like the new Microsoft. Everything to do with Apple costs $$$. I build my own x86 computer and I sure if Apple wanted they would let us just install OS X on ALL x86 computers, but they don't. Rather, you pay premium price to buy their Hardware + Software. Also, they don't have codec to beat CCCP nor can they play all the games. Converting to Mac system doesn't seem give me benefit I want and it will cost me more. Apple seems to be all about stupid Cool and Hip Style compared to real cost effectiveness + features. I have no wish to be come cool or stylist, I plan to remain a Geek.
I have a little program called Inferno that can probably take care of any of the files you want to delete. It can do a simple delete or a Peter Gutmann wipe (plus couple of others in between those two). Another feature it has that I haven't looked into is encryption.
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also. On the MS side, I will admit that I do like XP - solid and dependable, does what I need, how I need it for those apps. But, when come home, its all good and 
when the MacBook or the iMac welcome me... 
I have no wish to be come cool or stylist, I plan to remain a Geek.
