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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Science & IT

Windows is dead. Long live Linux

0 People are angry with Microsoft and its digtal rights dictatorship. Vista is garbage, rubbish, bloatware, crippled.02br
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0 I know Linux. I suggest you only, if you know what you do! I mean, if you know something about your computer and you know how to use it.0-
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0 Which Linux flavor do you use?02br
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10Well, if you ask which distribution I like than it's Debian and its derivatives.0-
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0 I use Linux too, 50% of my computing time at the office and 100% at home. I also use Debian based distributions, having tried (among others) Knoppix Linux, Ubuntu Linux, **** Small Linux, and am now very happily using Mepis Linux.02br
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00I recently tried an online Debian installation. It worked really well and installed without a hitch. The only problem was that when I
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0 Ya i too accept your point... My favorate edition is fedora-6 then what about you people.... 0-
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0 The table of contents in the abovelinked article about Vista is pretty telling. Doesn't Microsoft realise it is committing corporate suicide (just to appease the Hollywood studios)?;02br
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0 I would say that Windows XP is and was the best operating system of Microsoft.0-
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0 Yes. Although XP doesn't seem as fast as 98, its driver support is very nice. Unfortunatley, drivers will become a hellish nightmare under Vista. Microsofthas gone mad! Nothing that is not specifically approved by MS, and designed to cease functioning when Hollywood see fit, including content you have created yourself, will work at all (as well documented in the article).0-
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0Using Linux since 1991 on an off, permanently since 1994050010id1
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10Sounds great! And which distribution if I have the ability to ask?02br
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00I wouldn't say that Windows 98 is faster than XP.02br
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