I refuse to buy a machine with Vista on it.
That said, Ubuntu rocks, you should check out www.kubuntu.org very slick.
At 09:48 AM 9/13/2007, James B. Byrne wrote:
>On: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 5:05 PM, Ray Shahan wrote:
>
>
> > I just finished reading "Visual Studio 2005 for Dummies", and I must
> > admit, I'm thoroughly impressed with the MS view of the world.
>
>Well, I just bought two brand-new Toshiba Satellites for my daughters each
>with MS Vista Home Premium (allegedly pre-installed - what a joke), and
>after spending the better part of an hour on each (with considerable
>parallel, if manual, processing) both machines were finally ready to do
>some work. No problems mind you, just tedium.
>
>Except... every three minutes or so each machine gives a warning message
>that .net has encountered a bounds violation. Both machines are
>exhibiting exactly the same condition and both have been updated to the
>very latest hot fixes. The only software besides that pre-loaded at the
>factory that I have added is open-office and Firefox. Neither of these
>need to be running to get this error so I doubt that either has anything
>to do with it. I will look into the matter further when I have time.
>
>Further, from what little I have seen I am not impressed with MS's recent
>conversion to security. In Vista every program that you invoke causes the
>OS to request that you confirm that you started it yourself before it
>will run. No doubt this feature will prove a great productivity enhancer
>until the user figures out how to turn it off. You think these people
>would have learned from "Clippit", but noooo, let us roll out the same
>annoying little aids so beloved by the under 20 set.
>
>My next laptop is going to be a Linux box. I just cannot decide whether to
>go Ubuntu or CentOS. I lean toward CentOS because I prefer a stable core
>and I am willing to source and build my own personal apps. But, Ubuntu
>seems to be more in tune with the desires of a desktop user. We shall
>see.
>
>
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