[Klug-general] Hi All, greetings and a laptp enquiry

Matt House matthouse at dsl.pipex.com
Tue Dec 19 21:40:00 GMT 2006


On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:04:11 -0000
<alex at asmhosting.com> wrote:

> >> i'd join in this argument but i'm far to busy playing with my new
> >> vista install - all the best bits of mac, gnome and kde repackaged
> >> and re-badged
> >> 
> >
> >And all bundled together spun round in a washing machine until what
> >emerged
> has
> >all the functionality and good looks of a pile of child puke!
> 
> Not meaning to be rude or take this OT but have you even used the
> final release? We have it here at work for testing with our software
> and I can hand on heart say it's a vast improvement over XP
> (providing you have
> >=512MB ram).
> 

Aye indeed I have, I am an MSDN subsciber thanks to my job (I'm a C#
developer) so I've installed it on a test machine at work when the final
release came out. I personally don't like it and I'm finding that I'm
less productive at work using it compared to XP (although admittedly a
large part of this could probably be attributed to familiarity).

Just because it is a vast improvement over XP doesn't make it *good*

and I object to an OS using >700Mb of RAM while idling, that ram is
meant for my applications thanks.

> It's more functional than some Linux users like to make out.
> 
> (side note: Linux is my OS of choice but due to some of the software
> we use at work we have to use windows - I'm saying the above because
> it's my views after having been using it for ~1 week for 20 hrs a day)
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
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