Posted on 04/14/2008 6:23:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
Oh, and an added bonus of Ubuntu, you can download an ISO image, put it on 1 CD, and boot to it. It’s self contained, and functional on 1 CD. It won’t molest your system, but if you choose to install it, obviously it runs better.
““Blah-blah” sucks has got to be the thinnest argument ever. What sucks about it?”
What sucks about Vista? Please tell me you’re joking.
Give Ubuntu a try. It’s a Debian variant. You can boot to it on a single CD or install it. It really is impressive.
“I have new laptop with Vista and wanted o know if I can load XP without formating drive?”
You can, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Best to clean install.
You can't "drag & drop" files saved on your flash drive like you can do with XP.
When you bookmark an internet page you have to register for "google bookmarks" (what the heck is this???)
Give me more time, I just got the new laptop last Wednesday.
One positive thing CD RW disks don't have to be formatted in Vista.
You’re askin’ the wrong guy. I think Shadow Ace could help or many other FReepers. Now if your computer ran on Diesel..................
I’ve got five machines that run Ultimate without issue.
So, back to the question...
Kinda sounds like Ford, General Motors, Chrylser and AMC in the 50's and 60's. I support American made products, but I believe the foreign competition was good for the market in this case.
I just got a new laptop with vista and I am hating it. Everytime I try to close my internet browser, the window freezes and it takes forever to get rid of it. I will likely go back to my old laptop that gets the blue screen of death almost daily because it works better than my new one.
You people disgust me!
Are you too stupid not to understand that Gates needs to promote Vista and the coming Windows 7 to provide outsourced work for the programmers in India who are doing the work Americans won’t do to sell the software those same Americans will be forced to buy.
/cyn
Does that means the next name for a new MS OS will be "Hope"?
“I’ve got five machines that run Ultimate without issue.”
Wow, so you’re the one....
“So, back to the question...”
http://www.computergripes.com/windowsvista.html
Happy reading...not everyone’s experience (in fact MOST people’s experience) aren’t as happy as yours.
means=mean
Way to demonstrate a complete lack of understanding about the oil and gas industry. You go!
” “Blah-blah” sucks has got to be the thinnest argument ever. What sucks about it?”
I don’t use it, I’ve only had exposure to it on other people’s computers and through my son, who is a consultant. My biggest concern, Vista runs so many things, 800MB of memory used when idle, that it will slow down a normally fast computer. You have to have the latest and greatest hardware to overpower the cracker code.
Yes, but I can diagnose a problem with my car faster than Windows Vista can boot.
That’s funny and all, but doesn’t lead to a solution. What doesn’t work about it? How do you expect it to get fixed when the most cogent feedback is “it sucks”? I don’t think it sucks, but that doesn’t mean I’m right - just differently opinioned.
These guys are running around like Chicken Little.
XP will continue to work after June 30!
If one is using it, and likes it, one just has to continue to use it.
It is not suddenly going to disappear from your computer!
[If enough people refuse to buy VISTA, VISTA will go the way of the Ford’s Edsel. If enough people refused to give up XP, MS will be forced to continue to support XP. They saw that last year when purchasers were demanding XP over VISTA on new computer purchases.]
I’m putting two new systems together next month, and unfortunately, they’ll be running Vista 64-bit Home Premium, due to Microsquish’s impending withdrawal of XP support next year. To be safe, I’m spending the extra money to get 4 GB of memory for each instead of the 2 GB that I wanted.
I’m getting 500 GB hard drives with each, and I’m seriously thinking about leaving 100 GB unpartitioned so I can go back and add a dual-boot Linux installation later on (if I can do that after-the-fact, I hope I can). I am not a big fan of bloatware, which is Microsloth’s specialty these days...I just want the OS to manage the computer, let me perform system tasks, and otherwise, stay the hell out of my way, eat up the fewest resources possible, and just WORK. Neither XP nor Vista really fit that bill.
}:-)4
It's not the petroleum industry who are requiring special blends of fuel for each city and time of year; it's not the petroleum industry who enact every type of regulation or find so-called endangered species that prevents drilling in ANWR or many areas of the US; it's not the petroleum industry who is responsible for the increase in gasoline use in developing countries; it's not the petroleum industry who is responsible for the declining value of our dollar relative to other currencies. Shall I go on??
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