The Eight Faces of Vista

[prathapml]

http://forum.linspire.com/viewtopic.php?t=420162

Read it - highly recommended.

I get the feeling this guy is right. And that the people whining about "too many vistas" have a paralysed brain....

[Daemonforce]

I've never fallen into the belief that Microsoft actually has any competition...Windows is not unix.

*Reads adamk's post*

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I most certainly agree!

I always run into the problem of some business partners using XP Home to get their work done. They run a small network and I see them having problems where they need those networking tools and they need the domain controller. I always tell them they're better off with Windows XP Professional and something that can be a DC, but they only listen to me once they start running into stupid networking barriers and wonder what went wrong.

You can add a ninth face to Vista.

Vista PE.

I'm going to extract it and run. I can't stand the thought of worrying about support problems when everyone goes to Vista and I'm here happy with my resource hog called XP.

I've been using it when it was great and I had a look at Longhorn in the days when it was purely labelled such. From day 1 I recognized problems on the new platform that just shouldn't be happening. It feels like that bump in the road from NT 4 to 2000. I'm done with NT 6.

[prathapml]

He's yet another of those paralysed critics.

And before you go to praise *nix....

Let me state I have no idea how ubuntu is doing so well.

I installed it on my system, and it insisted on using the nv driver, which wouldn't work for my newer (geforce 6100) card, and it did not even have the frame-buffer X-server, to use for fallback. Fine, i said, and downloaded the latest nvidia drivers. But since ubuntu uses a newer kernel, the pre-compiled binaries wouldn't work & I had to tell it compile driver from source. But then, BAMM, ubuntu does not have kernel sources on CD. Nor GCC.

I happened to be skilled enough to download those as well & get it all working fine, but what about those who expect things to "just work" ?

[Scubar]

i think that most of the comments over on the linspire forum are pretty bias when it comes to microsoft, i was lucky enough to get a free copy of linspire when they had that promotion a while back, i was not impressed with it one bit, i would much rather just use a copy of debian or gentoo. I personally think MS have been very clever with what they are doing with Vista, by offering all those different versions at different price ranges it is only going to persuade more ppl to purchase the windows based OS instead of trying to find a free linux alternative which proove to be far more complicated to the average user.

[prathapml]

I personally think MS have been very clever with what they are doing with Vista, by offering all those different versions at different price ranges it is only going to persuade more ppl to purchase the windows based OS instead of trying to find a free linux alternative which proove to be far more complicated to the average user.

Exactly!

The first post in the thread I linked to, is VERY level-headed & reasonable indeed, no bias!