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1 posted on 07/16/2010 6:38:19 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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2 posted on 07/16/2010 6:38:57 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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Can you run windows applications on Ubuntu?


3 posted on 07/16/2010 6:40:29 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: ShadowAce

This is one of the weakest articles I have read in a long long time. Either that or it’s a parody and I missed the humor.


5 posted on 07/16/2010 6:42:32 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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7 posted on 07/16/2010 6:44:40 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: ShadowAce

Downgrade to Windows 95?

Haha, sure if you don’t like using Flash, Java or most web based programs. Or, well Firefox at all. Most websites will not load because they require updated versions of the above.


8 posted on 07/16/2010 6:44:51 AM PDT by BigGaloot
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To: ShadowAce
Defrag Windows disk drive 3X a day

Funny parody

12 posted on 07/16/2010 6:46:27 AM PDT by badpacifist (Life is short and hard... Bad decisions make life is shorter and harder)
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To: ShadowAce

Awesome article, thanks


16 posted on 07/16/2010 7:01:19 AM PDT by thecabal (Destroy Progressivism)
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hehehehe...

However in the real world...

My Quadcore Q6600 with 3 gig of RAM and running Windows Vista Business Ultimate is 21 seconds from the time I push the button to the time I have a usable desktop! Yes I have AVG antivirus installed and also Spybot Search and Destroy. I certainly don’t expect the “average” user to know how to customize the profile to accomplish this but it can be done with mainstream hardware.


20 posted on 07/16/2010 7:09:52 AM PDT by Syntyr (Mace, Kirk, Thomson, Griffin, Scusa, Martin, Gallegos, Hart - Remember the fallen of Kamdesh)
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To: ShadowAce
I keep waiting for the "X-nux is faster than Windows" meme to be true but every time I install SuSE, Fedora Core or Ubuntu and etc, I find that to not be the case.

I really like SuSE, though. It's odd when I realize I haven't booted my laptop to Windows for a week or two.

21 posted on 07/16/2010 7:15:33 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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To: ShadowAce

Good advice, but I prefer to use Windows 98se. It really screams on a Phenom with 4GB RAM!


23 posted on 07/16/2010 7:17:02 AM PDT by smokingfrog (freerepublic.com - Now 100% flag free.)
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Step 1.: Hire a techno geek to select the “distro”, download it, install it for you, configure it, buy new hardware because that “distro” doesn’t support your hardware, reconfigure the system, show you how to use it as everything is non-standard, etc.

Step 2: Repeat, because your “distro” producer was so last week and is no longer in business.


29 posted on 07/16/2010 7:47:23 AM PDT by CodeToad ("Idiocracy" is not just a movie.)
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To: ShadowAce

Tech humor is a tenuous art at best. When it’s bad (unfunny) it’s very bad.


30 posted on 07/16/2010 8:14:34 AM PDT by relictele (Me lumen vos umbra regit)
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I can’t switch over to Linux — Linux makes me think about Ubuntu, which makes me think about Africa, which makes me think about the World Cup, which makes me think about vuvuzelas, which gives me a screaming headache...


31 posted on 07/16/2010 8:21:44 AM PDT by mikrofon (Nice tongue-in-cheek there - for a fanboy ;)
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To: ShadowAce

Actually, Windows 7 is already beating Ubuntu 10 on many benchmarks. As usual, YMMV depending on your specific software and hardware.


35 posted on 07/16/2010 9:25:26 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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Question? While online I receive the Upgrade to Internet Explorer 8. Is it worth it?


38 posted on 07/16/2010 11:18:30 AM PDT by Young Werther ("Quae cum ita sunt" Since these things are so!)
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