I use Fedora on my personal machine, and I admin RH boxes.
Count me as one of those that hates Unity. I’m becoming a fan of Linux Mint. However, I have to run as a VMware guest OS on a Windows 7 platform for now.
sigh
Maybe one day my company will allow a Linux desktop.
Excellent points.
Microsoft has a history of forcing unwanted changes and “feature” on the users.Most users would be quite happy if they could just continue to use their XP systems,I know I would.Windows 7 isn’t bad.But I don’t want to have to relearn again for Windows 8.
I wouldn’t be surprised if consumer and corporate resistance plays as big a factor in this rollout as for Windows ME -and WinME actually didn’t cause me any difficulty.
You've GOT to be kidding me. They have run out of actual IDEAS in Redmond, but they have to change SOMETHING or how do they sell the new OS, right? Guess everything old is new again -- looks like those old menuing programs we used to buy as a front end for our DOS machines.
And whatever comes after that could well be the next XP or Windows 7.
This is a joke of an article Right? I mean it’s so onesided you can just put a big * by the whole thing and say...all this can be ignored.
I have gray hairs to prove otherwise.
Windows 8 seems like something designed for a phone or tablet, not a desktop computer. Of course, some desktop computers today do have touch screen capabilities, so there might be some advantages for casual browsing and such.
If any gurus on this list use their PCs for extensive audio reproduction I have a couple of questions.
I have a need for 16 Gig minimum to possibly 32 Gig of RAM which means I need to leave the WinXP Pro 32 bit world. The huge RAM requirement is for audio samples in a Virtual Pipe Organ application and every sample (can be thousands of individual Pipe samples) must reside in RAM for performance issues. When playing there is no time to access these samples from any other storage media other than RAM.
I also must have the ability to run a medium size VB6.0 program linked to an MS Access DB file (no Access actually needed VB does it all) and I had heard Win8 will not support VB6 (.NET sucks for this application by the way). Is that the case or will Win8 run VB6? I know VB6 is old but damn it sure worked well for a bunch of applications and it lost many followers in the transition to .NET (you certainly could not call that an upgrade).
I am using a 10 channel Audio card from M-Audio and I doubt they have a driver available as they were barely able to make one work for XP. I would need a minimum of 10 audio out channels. Does/would Win8 support this?
It seems high end Audio is not on the priority list from Microsoft and that may make all the sense in the world for them as long as the tools are available for 3rd parties to jump in.
The video requirements are minimal for this application so outside of the audio issues a Win3.1 OS could handle it.
Vista is a dog on this 5 year old laptop, too slow to really do anything, straight out of the box.
Unity is pretty slow, too, but at least it is pretty, and in 12.04 the dash is much faster to open, altho I would not call it snappy by any means.
Gnome 2 running compiz was not so bad, def much faster than Vista, and I loved being able to switch desktops or see all my open windows by dragging the mouse to the corner and clicking the mouse button.
But I have finally settled on Xubuntu, untweaked, no compiz. I mostly only use the browser, the terminal, and Gnucash anyways.
Metro just looks confusing to me, but I haven’t tried it. Probably won’t. I assume I will get a Macbook soon, like Linus, and dual boot MacOS and Ubuntu.
So far, I have found one thing I like about Win8. The default dark-blue-green background color (as shown in the posted screenshots here) is more or less identical to the color I've used for many years as my Windows desktop -- plain background color. I find it very relaxing and easy on the eyes compared to the lurid blues of XP or the swoopy-loopy Vista/7 Aero stuff.
Good on them for picking a nice color.
Other than that, my only concern is whether I can force Win8 to present a simple Win2K-like desktop with small meaningful icons of consistent size. If so, fine. If not, I have no use for it and will stick with Win7 until Win9 comes out to correct this apparent mistake.
