"Windows Vista didn't make a smooth market entrance; in fact, nearly every aspect of the operating system has been attacked since its release on January 30, 2007. Multiple SKUs allegedly confused customers, anti-DRM groups disliked Vista's Protected Video Path and its overall DRM friendliness, and Microsoft's definition of 'Vista Capable' got the company sued. Toss in a plethora of bugs and the usual consumer backlash over GUI changes, and you'd think consumers would be avoiding Vista in droves. According to new information, however, they aren't - Vista's adoption rate over the past year actually exceeded XP's in 2001, and consumers apparently choose Vista over XP by a 7:1 margin."
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Member since:2005-07-28
Sometimes it's like, your CHARACTER is judged by what OS you run.
There is no operating system presently in existence that I would recommend over others for all users in all situations. I am suspicious of anyone who has that kind of attitude. I am definitely a Linux advocate but I can't imagine recommending it to a complete newcomer to computers, and especially to those who are immersed in Windows environments, want to run Windows games, and so forth.
It's just a bunch of ones and zeroes. I can be productive on any machine, but I have my preferences. I can understand having a strong preference; for my own use, I certainly do. What I don't get is why it gets so incredibly EMOTIONAL.
(When forced to support an OS I don't like, or make interoperable web pages, well, okay, I do get emotional, but only in those instances.)
Member since:2005-07-06
There is no operating system presently in existence that I would recommend over others for all users in all situations. I am suspicious of anyone who has that kind of attitude. I am definitely a Linux advocate but I can't imagine recommending it to a complete newcomer to computers, and especially to those who are immersed in Windows environments, want to run Windows games, and so forth.
I agree from my posts you could probably tell that I think Vista is better as a consumer OS than any GNU/Linux distro. BUT recently I helped a friend. She has four children and two computers at home. The one is a new computer than came with an 3 year ISP contract. She also has an older cheap computer that is about 4 years old now. I set them up with OpenSuse 10.3 on the old computer. They would use it for all their mp3 files. The machine they do homework on etc is the Windows machine. It is also nice to expose children to the fact that their is more to the computing world than Windows.
I really wish Haiku would move along because that kind be an awesome home OS.
Lastly I would say that Linux is quite fine with someone who is new to computers. As long as they don't tinker or try every little piece of software they will be fine. For example if their uses are:-
- email
- internet
- VoIP
- music
- youtube / gmail / facebook
- Basic word processor
then they are more tha fine on Linux. As long as they don't mess with things and they don't want specific stuf like iTunes, Microsoft Money / Quicken, etc.
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2005-07-06
True. They're just as bad. There is, however, a fine line between "it doesn't work for me" and "it plain well sucks". For Linux, it doesn't work for me, but that's not saying it won't work for someone else. My brother has linux on his desktop. As a university student (like me), he loves running it.
The again, zealots of any flavour can be annoying and tiring. Even as "Maclot" (to coin a term from Arstechnica battlefront), I'm interested in what Microsoft does - Channel9 has some great videos worth watching. Same with opensource projects that help me directly as an end user, such as libpurple which form the foundation of Pidgin and Adium.