OT: Windows is too expensive

AgentZero · #1 March 13th, 2007, 04:07 AM

Heh, by 2014 we'll have mobile phones that can run XP fer cryin out loud, and a Vista machine would cost less than a grand. Still, I'm all in favour of the user-friendly Linux idea. That'd be sweet.

Fyron · #2 March 13th, 2007, 05:23 AM

A "vista machine" only costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $600 US, including the ability to run Aero.

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 March 13th, 2007, 07:47 PM

Aero? Oreo? what do cookies have to do with vista?

Santiago · #4 March 13th, 2007, 07:51 PM

Give Microsoft Oreos and get Vista Aero

frightlever · #5 March 14th, 2007, 05:57 AM

If you're ever thinking of experimenting with Ubuntu again there are usually three versions on the go. I think the current 6.10 (Feisty Fawn?) is the latest stable version. There may be an unstable beta and there's the first time installers friend 6.06LTS - the ultra stable version. The LTS is for long term support, which is to say they'll support the OS repositories not that you have to buy a support package off them. I never had a problem with 6.06 but 6.10 eventually got kicked off my second machine.

parabolize · #6 March 14th, 2007, 07:38 AM

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AgentZero said:
Heh, by 2014 we'll have mobile phones that can run XP.

I'm not seeing the advantage to running XP over the faster, more specialized operating systems phones use now.

AgentZero · #7 March 14th, 2007, 05:07 PM

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parabolize said:
I'm not seeing the advantage to running XP over the faster, more specialized operating systems phones use now.

I never said there'd be any advantage, only that it'd be possible.

Phoenix-D · #8 March 14th, 2007, 07:03 PM

Games is one issue, but Linux is simply a pain in the ***. The UI works all right, but it doesn't cover most essential functions, leaving only the command prompt and manually editing control files. Not a good thing. I shouldn't have to do that for basic tasks like installing drivers on a fresh machine..

parabolize · #9 March 14th, 2007, 07:24 PM

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Phoenix-D said:
Games is one issue, but Linux is simply a pain in the ***. The UI works all right, but it doesn't cover most essential functions, leaving only the command prompt and manually editing control files. Not a good thing. I shouldn't have to do that for basic tasks like installing drivers on a fresh machine..

Everything Geo did can be done from one GUI or another that is installed by default. The command line is a very useful tool in getting people to do exactly what you want because the commands can be copy/pasted.
You should also keep in mind windows often looks to the manufacturer for drivers. If Trendnet would have made a driver for Linux and not Windows anyone using Windows with that hardware would be out of luck.

geoschmo · #10 March 14th, 2007, 08:26 PM

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parabolize said:
Everything Geo did can be done from one GUI or another that is installed by default.

To be completely honest though I tried doing it using the GUI tools and it didn't work. Whether that is Linux's fault or my own I can't say, but it certainly wasn't as plug-and-play easy as XP.

Of course XP wouldn't be that plug-and-play easy if the hardware manufacturer hadn't spent the time and money to write a basically self-installing driver and included it in a CD with the adapter. And Linux could be if they would do the same for it. It's not an advantage of the OS per se as much as it is the fact that the hardware mfg did all the work for me.