whats best about vista ????

Everyone says get linux but you cant run hardly any programs on it. Dual booting is fine and dandy but whats the point if your name gonna use linux for anything.

I like the graphics/look and also some minor features.... such as the fact the the task manager gives a brief description of the process running.
 
Sorry to follow the above trend and go off topic, but it tends to be games that won't run. Some Windows apps have a Linux version and the ones that don't have Linux alternatives.

If you're not a gamer then you'd probably be perfectly happy with Linux.

As for what has Vista got over XP, I guess that would be DX10. XP won't ever have support for that, so if you are a gamer then you'll be needing DX10 support sometime soon I imagine.
 
WeatherGeek said:
Everyone says get linux but you cant run hardly any programs on it. Dual booting is fine and dandy but whats the point if your name gonna use linux for anything.

I like the graphics/look and also some minor features.... such as the fact the the task manager gives a brief description of the process running.
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i think you probably need to get yourself a linux distro and try it. Yes you can run programs on it, providing you know how to !!
 
[-GEO-];639736 said:
Name one program you can run on windows that you can't run on Linux, ONE.
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That is so ridiculously easy to do there. Let's start off with Steam's Source gaming engine requiring IE not Firefox! Direct X is another component that somehow doesn't make it to Linux quite yet. Despite some improvements seen in running virtual environments...?

patrickv said:
i think you probably need to get yourself a linux distro and try it. Yes you can run programs on it, providing you know how to !!
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For the average and certainly new person starting to get acquainted with the ease yet not easy way to use MS the Grub and Lilo prompts for loading a distro are just a little above their heads there. For an original MSDos user the language and commands have to be learned just to get things done at the more basic level. The UNIX command structure is quite a bit different.
 
[-GEO-];639736 said:
Name one program you can run on windows that you can't run on Linux, ONE.
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you're wrong dude. There's a lot..and i stress on "a lot" of programs that we can't run on linux.
 
Gradually with the newer distros there has been some improvement in crossplatform support. But Linux still has the basic UNIX platform to work with. Besides the old and very large reel to reel tape banks with basic manual commands there UNIX was out before MS Dos for the most part. Apple saw reailty in the late 70s along with Commodore. Then came MS in the 80s.
 
why go threw the trouble of learning how to run programs on linux, makeing programs compatible with linux, dealing with emulators/drivers/etc to make games etc run on linux when you can just get windows and have everything work fine right away with no trouble at all?



anyway, all the graphics stuff in vista is nice.
it supports dx10 which is nice.
 
I think Vista will be great once DX10 games are our, but theres not a reason to switch yet if your a gamer.
 
I agree with [-GEO-] "Get Linux/GNU" but as far as Vista goes the graphics are good looking and it uses WAY more RAM than XP. I like it better than XP though. Hey, WeatherGeek, Linux runs lots of software and the majority
of it is free. Here is a list of free Linux software. http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/tools.htm
If that's not lots of software I don't know what is.

~Jordan
 
I get to run Vista, XP, Linux, and Solaris here with a simple effort made to split the second sata drive since the first runs XP Pro. The XP Home still runs well on the primary ide while Vista runs on the second ide without drag. It doesn't take any big leap in memory to actually run Vista. The main problem was seen when XP first came with the need for new working drivers and new programs or patches to run existing ones on the new Windows.

Linux is still based on the old now antique UNIX platform. But the OS is still open source where someone is always working on ways to get MS or maybe MAC programs to run there. The main thing to remember about Linux is that it's simply an OS for those that like tinkering around with programming while the rest simply click and point! For having been an old MS Dos user I can understand the want to "do your own" tinkering and modifications.
 
vista got new features such as its new look... and also new features... like ready boost and others... i personally will never go back to xp...vista all the way..
 
For msot the "new look" is the main focus. With XP I still use the classic view for ease and personal preference there. But that's user preference. While having Vista now set as the default version between that and XP the main applications here won't run on the newer Windows. Some are for extra hardwares currently installed. But getting familiar with the new version is the main reason at this point even as a secondary OS still.
 
I would have to say how it took like 40fps off every game and how it still uses almost the same understructure as XP.
 
Vista is still an NT cored OS like XP and 2000 as well as when compared to the older Fat type doe shelled versions of Windows. NTFS is a far more stable type of partition while Fat saw many type of errors even when running a strictly dos machine things came up. What was done with Vista was boost the security features now seen like the User Account Control and an improvement with the built in firewall to some but not great degree.

The one thing found most annoying however is the Windows Defender now being included and no longer an option with the new version. You are reminded of new updates while other free utilities like Ad-Aware and Spyware Terminator will go well with AVG, Avast, AntiVir, or a few others. The actual improvement besides a "new look" everyone wants is the Disk Management tool now able to more useful for things like increasing or shrinking the size of partitions. This wouldn't work on the C while Windows is running however but a second partition or on another drive. XP can'r partition but format and reformat there along with changing a drive letter in the right click menu.

Another additional item now seen is memtest! Instead of making up a boot floppy or burning a boot cd you can load it from the install cd when booting from that to see if there are problems found. The new options for automatic repair of Windows replaces the recovery console seen in ME, 2000, and XP. But you lose on being able to remove Windows components except updates that were downloaded later. That option in the new "Programs and Features" is left out while XP and the older versions saw the add/remove Windows compoonents in the add/remove section.

(you mean I can't uninstall wmp 11 to see if wmp 10 will run? :confused: :eek: !)
 
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