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Windows 7 Hits 3% Market Share, Approaches 4%

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 23:59 UTC

Windows 7 has been out and about for little over a week now, and as it turns out, Microsoft's new baby is doing relatively well. That is, according to the figures by NetApplications: Windows 7 already reached the 3% mark this weekend, and is already closing in on the 4% mark.

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RE[2]: Typical

by deathshadow on Tue 3rd Nov 2009 22:26 UTC in reply to "RE: Typical"

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That number is simply made up. I've yet to see any Ubuntu installation take longer than 20 min.

Well lucky for you then. I suspect the root cause is that I've got the BIOS in SATA mode and the linux kernel used on the install CD's hates the nForce 680i chipset... it's the only reason I can figure disk access CRAWLS on this machine during install/liveCD.

Then the bit about eth0 not configuring right, doesn't make sense to me either, what wasn't working and how did you have to fix it from the cli.

So you've never had to manually add "dmfe" to /etc/modules? Eth0 present but refuses to see the lan until you do that? Common affliction on nForce, Davicom and 3Com networking cards. USUALLY old-school it wasn't a problem until after upgrading the kernel - disturbing to have it crop up on a fresh install of the baseline.

The bit about updates for 2 hours?

Actually, I'm on 22mbps downstream, but thanks to the servers refusing connection, and when they do connect being throttled down to dialup speeds for my area - yes, it can take that long. Good for you being right on top of their servers, I have no such luck - rarely ever have.

The bit about dicking with xorg.conf does not sound believable either, first why would you invest that much time into configuring a system which you clearly hate (You made that clear at the beginning).

1) dicking with xorg.conf unbelievable? BWAHAHAHA!!! FUNNY GUY.

2) I'm a software and web developer working cross platform - so I actually install OS I dislike for testing because while I dislike it, I'm not going to be that asshat who tests in Windows/IE and **** everyone else.

Also AFAIK everything is configured with xrandr now so no xorg.conf.

Which doesn't see more than one display on my setup with the open source drivers, and which isn't compatible with the nVidia restricted drivers... Which means you have to go into xorg.conf and manually add the metamodes for each screens resolution. In THEORY you could run their configuration utility, but that does more harm than help ESPECIALLY on a multi-display setup.

I could go on, but clearly you don't know enough about Linux to be attempting to berate my experiences.

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