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cory.ok on 22 October 2010

ubuntu <thumbs up>



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the_bloodwalker on 22 October 2010
cory.ok said:

ubuntu <thumbs up>

One of the best OS'es I have seen. IMHO, Ubuntu and Kubuntu are Linux done right to get to the general user



sethnintendo on 22 October 2010
sparticus112b said:

I know right, they had such a good sales plan.  Make Vista completely suck and make everyone totally annoyed by it and so they begrudgingly buy Windows 7.  Reminds me of when Cingular bought AT&T and made it so that the people with AT&T had horrible service after the buyout so that we had to migrate over to AT&Tingular. I hate those bastards.

 

 

Edit: Nevermind I guess it was Cingular that bought AT&T Wireless..

I was a little confused myself but I found a pretty funny post in Yahoo answers of someone trying to explain it...



"Cingular was a joint venture between at&t (formerly known as SBC) and BellSouth. When at&t bought BellSouth recently, they took control of the entire Cingular company, and decided to rename it "at&t Wireless". This is not to be confused with the company "AT&T Wireless", which was purchased by Cingular when AT&T was purchased by SBC.

Confused? Yeah. It's confusing. In the beginning there was BellSouth Mobility, Ameritech, Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, and PacBell Mobile, which "merged" into Cingular. Then there was AT&T Wireless, which was purchased by Cingular, mostly for the customer base. So at that point, AT&T Wireless ceased to exist. Then, SBC bought AT&T and renamed the new company "at&t" (lowercase). And now that at&t bought BellSouth (and BellSouth's share of the joint Cingular venture), they control 100% of the Cingular venture, they've renamed it from Cingular to "at&t wireless."

Bottom line: It's really still the same company. Just a new name reflecting the unified ownership. Same towers, same phones, same service. You'll have to decide if that's good or bad. :) "

 

 

ON TOPIC:

I will stick with XP till I get a new computer.  I don't game too much on my computer anymore so I see no need in getting a new one.  I did do little upgrades like more memory and newer graphics card..  Maybe in 2-3 years I will get another computer and try Windows 7.



fordy on 22 October 2010

I've been on Windows  7 since beta (first Microsoft beta I've tried that didn't crash once) and I'm pretty happy with it. The taskbar management is deifnitely a step up (with all of the software I have open for my job, and still being able to fit on one row, was impressive).

I havent looked at too many Linux GUIs in years (about the time KDE 2 just got released). As for comand line based systems (I have a few servers running CLI only), I love Debian.



DirtyP2002 on 22 October 2010
yo_john117 said:

That's because its the best OS ever made.


this.

VIsta was meh at best. Windows 7 is awesome in every way. My PC never freezed since I am running Windows 7. Never in 9 months.



Imagine not having GamePass on your console...

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Silver-Tiger on 22 October 2010

Well I can't say anything about bad about Win 7, even if I wanted. Windows 7 just runs stable, 100x faster than Vista, and is more secure. they did a damn good job with it.  Some of the people I know were diehard win98 and XP fans and most of them upgraded to Win7.



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FaRmLaNd on 24 October 2010

Windows 7 is a great OS, I personally prefer osx but 7 was a great step up from vista.



fps_d0minat0r on 24 October 2010

only because xp got old and vista sucked.

if vista was better, people wouldnt have bothered getting windows 7.

windows 7 is what vista should have been in the first place.



Mr Puggsly on 24 October 2010

I don't understand the Vista hate. I've never had an issue other than it being a resource hog (same story for 7). Windows XP far less reliable. Sometimes it even fucks up from Windows Update.

Anyhow, all this misinformation about Vista has done a great job moving Windows 7.



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880user088 on 24 October 2010

Win 7 is awesome. I wanna to see what will Google do with their chrome OS.