"I have been using Mac OS X as my primary OS for almost a year now, but last night I switched back. What spurred it is that my Mac OS X partition crashed and it wouldn't boot back into the OS - I used rescue tools and drive scanners but it appears that the partition just disappeared. I booted into a much smaller NTFS partition and put the Vista install disk in."
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RE[3]: you must be joking
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-07-06
Vista only needs 1GB of RAM. And even then Vista is allocating RAM that it doesn't need just so it can have it availablle, and then if something else needs it, Vista release that RAM.
Unused RAM is useless RAM.
Also, perhaps you forget, but OSX was in development for longer and the performance of 10.0 was FAR FAR worse than Vista is today, and the functionality wasn't even there.
Also, Compiz and Beryl are both CRAP. Not only are the effects not even close to as smooth as Vista, but the whole engine isn't nearly as powerful as Vista's.
The only reason that Vista "requires" a Dx9 video card is because it gives developers that much more room to play with as far as effects et al go, whilst know that it will run smoothly on any PC that can handle the full Aero experience.
Member since:2005-07-06
Interesting that you talk about that; when UNIX people said this, the Windows crowd used to boohoo it and claimed it was a excuse made up for bloat - now because Windows does this through nifty new names, its all good.
Who is talking about MacOS X? I certainly didn't raise it - I certainly didn't defend the fact that MacOS X continued to be in 'beta' up until the late 10.3.x cycles, and even then, 10.4.x was as buggy as hell.
Heck, I ran Mac's for around 4 years, G4 eMac and G5 iMac, and all I can say is 'don't believe the hype' - I've used MacOS X on machines I've owned from 10.2.x to 10.4.x, all quite frankly, they're buggy; if Microsoft shipped something as buggy as the experience I had with the early versions of MacOS X, they would be crucified in seconds.
The only reason that Vista "requires" a Dx9 video card is because it gives developers that much more room to play with as far as effects et al go, whilst know that it will run smoothly on any PC that can handle the full Aero experience.
Me, I don't care. I don't use or want those affects; I want an operating system that is snappy, reliable and stable. I want an operating system that is secure, reliable and fast. Both MacOS X and Windows fail on those counts.
I don't understand the attraction to bling, for me, I've got Ubuntu here, and I certainly don't feel the need to enable effects - I stick to the status quo, and it suites me fine and dandy.
Member since:2005-10-02
Member since:2006-02-11
Unused RAM is useless RAM.
Seems that the design is taken from FreeBSD.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-...
Member since:2005-07-22
Member since:
2005-07-06
People will mod you down because you make an offtopic comment, or although against the 'policy' - a stupid poorly constructed argument. I can look through this forum and find atleast 1/2 dozen posts that are pro-Windows, infact, the latest one was marked 5 which outlined the lack of commercial applications on Linux. Sorry, to scream 'persecution' is alot easier to accept that maybe your post was crap.
Regarding your 'performance issues' - nice that you failed to provide your machine specifications, I'm sitting here with a HP dv6209TX laptop running Ubuntu, it is vastly faster than Windows Vista Business Edition on the same machine, and as for OpenSolaris B63, it is rocketting fast.
I'm sorry, but it is absolutely pathetic when an operating system that has been in development for 5-6 years to have such dog terrible performance - even if you take hardware compatibility and software compatibility out of the mix, the performance is still terrible.
I'm sorry, but when small company's and organisations (relative to Microsoft) like Conical, Sun, Red Hat, Novell, Debian and the likes can push out distributions which are superior speed, stability and security compared to an organisation the size of Microsoft, there needs to be some heads rolling at Microsoft, because obviously their resources are poorly managed and allocated.