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Oh everybody says that, then they try it, and most come right back to Windows. It's generally a PITA to wait around for WINE to catch up with the programs you need to use now.Time to move to Linux, it's free, it's ad free, truly an OS for the user.
To further explain my issues with Ubuntu, I was simply unable to settle the driver issue to to complete an install, without providing external drivers for my SATA HDDs. There, I would have needed a RAID card, and the drivers associated to get the HDDs recognized by Linux. I was able to install Ubuntu on an ancient eMachines T-5026, which as it turns out DOES run SATA drives as SATA, because it has Intel's SATA drivers integrated into the the Windows XP "image", AKA "restore discs". So, if you reload that OS, it loads the Intel SATA drivers from an image, rather than forcing you to install them via floppy. Ububtu "?.0" that I tried was workable, but so isa the XP installation in that machine, and I saw no salient advantage in keeping the dual boot OSes.captaincranky
My experience is different: I have an Ububtu and a Windows 7 system. My Ubuntu system recognizes most add ons without having to provide a driver whereas my windows system has trouble recognizing just about anything with or without a driver.
In all honesty, this just sounds like a troll. I'm not one to sit around and brag, or give much thought to boot times but, the eMachine I mentioned, takes less than maybe 5 minutes to boot, but, it's running an Intel 915 chipset, with DDR <notice there's no number behind the last "Dee"!But then again, even after rigorous cleaning, updating and whatnot, my Windows 7 now needs a solid 35 MINUTES to start up of which most of the time it apepars to do just nothing. No, I am not a windows hater (though microsoft makes that hard not to) but for the life of me I dont understand why windows seems to have problems with just about anything and just gets slower the more you use it, while my ubuntu system just runs smooth time after time after time. I will give windows that their desktop looks a bit smarter than Ubuntu
This is a witty and topical reply. But, it could have been better with some selected quotes to help us know to who you're replying. I'm pretty sure I do, but the drift tends to get lost as other posts come between the quoter and the quoted.I do not think he is comparing cocaine with an OS. He is merely discussing a mechanism of how one forms an opinion, wether that is an OS or cocaine and I for one find it a valid argument.
I for one, never tried same gender sex, and I can tell you I never will and if other people want to, fine that is their decision, but I formed a valid opinion about what I think of it before even trying. I will also not dive out of a plane woth or without aparachute eventhough I never tried it and I will never hit my wife and my girlfriend, all because I find it unappealing and jeez, I never even tried it.
Select text, and hit ( " ) you get this groovy box! which you could embellish by saying, "captaincranky said, captaincranky was rude, captaincranky put me up to this"...et al
Thats exactly what I have been saying and exactly why I will not be buying Windows 8. I could probably get used to the functionality of Windows 8, but why would I promote Windows 8 when I don't fully agree with the direction Microsoft is going?Ya know Tony, I appreciate you looking out for me. But honestly, I haven't seen anything in Windows 8 that compels me to even want to try it. That's not a judgment on its quality or lack thereof. It's butt ugly...
The Win 7 task bar, Aero interface, and slide show background is a constant joy to me. Why would I ever go to this new gobbledegook, that for all the world, looks like a bad photo of a set of Fischer-Price children's blocks?