[jr2]

XP and Ubuntu 9.04, although I'm switching to Linux Mint 8.  I have Vista on my laptop unfortunately. And I have pirated Windows 7 that I don't use until I purchase it, which will probably not be until I get the pirated version working correctly with my system.  (Just think; I'd be stuck if I'd not tried before I buyed.  )

On that topic, does anyone know what a really good (read: pretty much as good as a PCI internal) USB NIC adapter is?  I'm using a D-Link DUB-E100 but the 7 driver causes random corruption in 7 (bad news with updates, it crashes the system eventually).  So far, no update on that driver, so I'll prolly end up getting another one.  Once that tests out ok, I believe I can purchase 7 as the rest of the hardware seems to work good.

[Nuke]

i usually wait for the first redistributable service pack to start pirating.

and windows 7 be stealin' my classic start menu

[Kosh]

I'm really surprised and pleased to see Linux numbers so high and mac numbers so low

Well, you do know that Linux has a lot more going for it than Mac does. Customisability and price are probably the top two reasons, not to mention that Wine works better on it. A Mac is still an expensive extravagance, and the only reasons why I use it is because my school needed me to buy one, and because a good portion of the film industry use it.

The reason the film industry went with it early on was because it used to use RISC architectures that were better at handling 3d stuff at the time. Now that Mac has gone Intel there's really no advantage, performance wise.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Well, that would explain why the new computers in my school (the quad-cores I mentioned in a separate thread last month) have Windows XP Professional on them. The best part of all is that they actually work, despite being made by HP and having been downgraded from Windows Vista Business even before the first day they were used.

[pecenipicek]

you must mean upgraded from Vista Business version?







[/sarcasm]


on a more serious note, as far as vista goes, Ultimate x64 is the most rock-solid OS i've had the luck of encountering, tbh, it rules.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

you must mean upgraded from Vista Business version?
[/sarcasm]

Oh yeah...

on a more serious note, as far as vista goes, Ultimate x64 is the most rock-solid OS i've had the luck of encountering, tbh, it rules.

Now here's something positive about Vista that I've never seen before.

[achtung]

I primarily use Fedora.

[Nuke]

ive actually had good luck with vista x64. i just wish it would stop whoring all of my resources.

[jr2]

ive actually had good luck with vista x64. i just wish it would stop whoring all of my resources.

Try playing with the services... consult Black Viper's Vista Services page and use vLite.

[Nuke]

ive used nlite before, maybe il use vlite too at some point.
but usually the first thing i do (aside from disabling uac and installing drivers, IN THAT ORDER!), is tweak services, in fact ive been tweaking services since win2k.

[pecenipicek]

you must mean upgraded from Vista Business version?
[/sarcasm]

Oh yeah...

on a more serious note, as far as vista goes, Ultimate x64 is the most rock-solid OS i've had the luck of encountering, tbh, it rules.

Now here's something positive about Vista that I've never seen before.

its got it quirks, but when you have 4 or more gigs of ram, it actually gets good.


as much as i hated vista when it came out (32 bit version), i loved vista when i got the x64 version and a pc capable of running it nicely.

[Nuke]

there are very few pure 32 bit machines aside from maybe the netbook market. so going with a pure 32 bit os is pretty pointless (unless you only use netbooks).

[pecenipicek]

there are very few pure 32 bit machines aside from maybe the netbook market. so going with a pure 32 bit os is pretty pointless (unless you only use netbooks).

i didnt have a 64 bit machine back then, Athlon 2800+ Barton something something something

the first contact i had with 64 bit was with the first Phenom. 9500 or something, i completely forgot which one it was, basically, the weakest quad. oh how i regretted switching over to a Core2Duo later on...  (games were okay, but i couldnt do as much crap at the same time without expecting any delays)

i'm on a AMD 7750 X2 cpu, its a quiet and cool little bugger which works nicely. saving up for a proper quad-core system somewhere around next year.


or... to put it better, waiting for AMD to put out something that can actually compete with i7's performance wise. (lets just say, i didnt get a very good impression of the Phenom II's... the quad core Athlon II got me drooling tho, since the price here is around $90 - ish and its a full blown quad...)

[haloboy100]

Gonna upgrade to 7 once my bull**** windows XP system finally bites the dust. I swear, with a ten minute boot up time and four minutes to load Firefox, it's the software equivalent of a drag racer held together by duct-tape and maple syrup because the registry is shot to hell with spyware and the dead shells of viruses.

[Nuke]

^this is why i format my system partition every 6-8 months. if something, whether it be a poorly designed piece of software, a virus, spyware, or an automatic update, if it slows my computer down, it goes to hell.

[haloboy100]

Yeah, except I don't have the extra harddrives to do that. So I'm just gonna wait until my dad installs some network on our network so I can transfer my important **** over before I do a format.

[Nuke]

when i was a kid and i needed some extra storage space, i didnt wayt for my parents to install a new hard drive, i simply stole one from school

kids these days, i swear!

[haloboy100]

when i was a kid and i needed some extra storage space, i didnt wayt for my parents to install a new hard drive, i simply stole one from school

kids these days, i swear!

I'd do that too, except not only are the computers at my school physically locked (so I can't steal the juicy RAM they have, rawr), but they all share the same massive hard drive that's either in the city somewhere or buried somewhere in the school.

[S-99]

my primary OS is Linux Mint, a derivative of Ubuntu part of the Debian Linux family. I also run windows 7 for programming assignments and games, though I'm trying to find ways around that.

Install virtualbox ose. It's in the ubuntu repos. It works fantastic. The idea of dual booting an OS is really inefficient and quite retarded once you think about it. However, running an OS inside an OS even for the simple tasks like you use windows 7 on occasion for is ideal.

I parted with windows a long time ago. I completed all of my college courses with linux. The only things i couldn't run in linux at the time with WINE was excel 2007 and photoshop. So i used a virtual machine program which was virtualbox ose and never registered my friends copy of xp and excel 2007 inside a virtual machine (re-install every 30 days, but with a virtual machine, this was a breeze). Once done with the software, i blasted the virtual machine out of existence (i really didn't feel like purchasing windows and excel 2007 which come at a premium for just one semester's use).

I use mepis pretty exclusively, but currently on linux mint while waiting for mepis 8.5 which is my holy grail. Mepis is a fantastic distribution! Great for computer diagnostics with the live cd. You can install it as the main OS too. Beginners take to it pretty fast, but is also great for intermediate and advanced users. It's base is debian stable running a newer stable kernel than what debian stable offers. Mepis also has it's own repository of backported software if you want the latest versions of several programs. The release mantra of mepis is to release when it's ready. Thank god they take their sweet ass time between releases, no rushed out the doors buggy **** from them compared to 6 month release cycle ****ers like fedora, ubuntu, and mandriva.

On the topic of mint, i keep it around for myself when i'm in a crunch and mainly for new users. Compared to ubuntu, there's a lot less to configure after install. After that, i switched my room mate over to it (it's what he gets for losing his xp cd key). He then switched his mom over to it because she had the same problem that he did eventually. I then switched my mom over to it on her two laptops which finally gets rid of that hacked version of xp that doesn't call home. New users to mint totally love the extra possibilities and the fact of no viruses and malware. People tend to be happy with linux if you have a good reason for them to switch as described above.

[ssmit132]

I have Windows Vista on my laptop. I'm going to get Windows 7 when I get my new desktop, though, and since I'm doing IT at uni I can download it for free (due to MSDNA)!

Also I'm thinking of fixing up my old crate desktop (which has Windows 98) to give to a relative, and I might try a distro of Linux (one from the computer magazine I get - they make their own distro of Linux and put an ISO on their disk which people can use). Have to replace the CMOS battery and CD drive first though, they're both stuffed.