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re: The new ME?
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 7:13 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by shollomon
(69 messages posted)
Allow me to tell you what an odd position this puts me in as I am typically a Linux
user. I have been running Linux as my primary desktop OS for the past 5 years and
most recently was running Mepis. I bought a new laptop in October, a Dell Latitude
with 2 gigs of ram, 256m dedicated video memory, and a 2ghz Core2 Duo processor.
Installing mepis on the new machine did not go well. Palm sync support had always
been flaky (worked but not well), could not get hibernate/suspend to work, WPA support
was non-existent (that's been addressed now), and I could not get it to work at all
with the Dell flat screen monitor attached to my docking station.
After futzing around with Mepis, Kubuntu, Ubuntu and Linux Mint for several months
I decided to go back to Windows and in December loaded XP then switched to Vista
in February. By the end of March Vista was slowed to a crawl and I switched back
to XP. But then I had a bad crash in XP in early May and switched back to Vista
again.
If you care (and doubtless you do not) you can read about my experiences in detail
at http://www.southofdallas.com. My conclusions are that all OS's suck, its a matter
of what you are willing to live with.
In its current incarnation I would have to say that Vista is no ME (been there done
that) and with what I have learned over the last couple of weeks it is currently
working well for me.
- Written in response to:
- The new ME? (peter: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 6:20 am)
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