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#31 25 Days Ago
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Originally Posted by Paul Thompson 
Dont immediately discount things before trying them, and also i bet your girlfrends laptop cost a lot more money then you are running the XP system on. If you payed the same amount of money as you did for the mac i think you would find it would be closer to 35 - 40 seconds, that was what it was for me on a $500 netbook.
And not discounting things before trying them - listen, name one product that Microsoft has put out that isn't a complete hack. The only one I can think of is solitaire. Why would I want to give my loyalties to a company with such a poor track record with quality? Especially when a faster alternative is free? If I go out and by a pair of shoes from Nike, and they fall apart after 2 weeks, and then I go out and by another pair of shoes and they fall apart - How many pairs of crappy shoes do I have to buy, hoping that Nike can make a decent product. We've been dealing with crappy products from microsoft for the last 18 years! They should have just stuck with DOS.
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#32 24 Days Ago
Hahaha, you should have been here a few weeks ago, you really would have enjoyed this topic:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread228059.html
But as this is not a topic about bagging windows, its about saying who's got it and first experiences and so on, there really is no need. Start a new thread for that.
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread228059.html
But as this is not a topic about bagging windows, its about saying who's got it and first experiences and so on, there really is no need. Start a new thread for that.
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#33 24 Days Ago
Oh so you don't think *nix is not just a bunch of hacked together programs??? After I installed Ubuntu and Fedora 11 they both went to their respective web sites and downloaded updates. Even after that I couldn't get the sound to work right, but I found a tutorial that explained how to uninstall something (I forget what) then download something else. It was quite a lengthy tutorial -- but worked. Even after all that I still can not play movies that are on DVD, I understand that's because the drivers are not installed with the os.
I have Windows 7 Home Prem and everything worked perfectly after installing the os. Perfect sound, plays both blue-ray and normal DVD movies, youtube videos (with sound
Now tell me who has the hacked operating system.
I have Windows 7 Home Prem and everything worked perfectly after installing the os. Perfect sound, plays both blue-ray and normal DVD movies, youtube videos (with sound
Now tell me who has the hacked operating system.
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#34 24 Days Ago
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Originally Posted by Ancient Dragon
Oh so you don't think *nix is not just a bunch of hacked together programs??? After I installed Ubuntu and Fedora 11 they both went to their respective web sites and downloaded updates. Even after that I couldn't get the sound to work right, but I found a tutorial that explained how to uninstall something (I forget what) then download something else. It was quite a lengthy tutorial -- but worked. Even after all that I still can not play movies that are on DVD, I understand that's because the drivers are not installed with the os.
I have Windows 7 Home Prem and everything worked perfectly after installing the os. Perfect sound, plays both blue-ray and normal DVD movies, youtube videos (with sound
Now tell me who has the hacked operating system.
I mean, put together a bunch of ad-hoc components, get your elbows dirty and you have a end result product better than Microsoft. I've had all the issues you've had and have spent some frustrations getting things to work. But they do and it's awesome.
So I have two closing thoughts: Windows will remain dominant because A. It's cheaper than a mac and B. There isn't a distro that provides the level of integration that you are looking for.
But, conversely, any business infrastructure worth it's salt will rely on *nix servers to run their networks. Exchange servers may be well and good for the office LAN, but enterprise systems will always be dominated by Unix.
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#35 24 Days Ago
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Originally Posted by eggmatters
Time it takes my Linux box to load on startup:
~45 seconds to one minute (and it has issues)
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It took me < 20 seconds to open Firefox and go to daniweb's home page after shutting off my computer and restarting Vista. I started the timer when I clicked the login button.
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#36 24 Days Ago
Yup, 20 seconds from pressing the on button to get to the log-on screen.
another 20 seconds and my desktop was fully loaded
another 20 seconds and my desktop was fully loaded
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#37 24 Days Ago
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Originally Posted by eggmatters
But, conversely, any business infrastructure worth it's salt will rely on *nix servers to run their networks. Exchange servers may be well and good for the office LAN, but enterprise systems will always be dominated by Unix.
Agree. But I don't think severs are what we are talking about.
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#38 24 Days Ago
Can't wait to try Windows 7 for myself. I heard it has some huge appearance changes and doesn't perform all that amazing...
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#39 23 Days Ago
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Originally Posted by BestJewSinceJC
Are we comparing things that depend on your hardware's speed now? In that case my dell running on Vista loads in less than that. I'll be back online shortly, I'm actually going to time how long it takes me to open Firefox and start using it.
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It took me < 20 seconds to open Firefox and go to daniweb's home page after shutting off my computer and restarting Vista. I started the timer when I clicked the login button.
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#40 23 Days Ago
Yeah, im still using avast and it seems to keep the boot time fine. I used AVG and it seemed to slow down a LOT
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