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I'll prolly switch when I'll have a beter PC.... or I won't switch at all, heh


Vista? NO!

dagoburt wrote:I will switch to vista .. never :> i will switch to linux instead :>

Linux has a lot of disadvantages regarding games and multimedia. You don't have graphic programs in linux( here I mean professional programs ) and many other things.

What you mean is that Linux does not have Adobe photoshop..
As for other multimedia, what do you mean?

Games are mainly made for Windows since most people use it, so there aren't many off-the-shelf-at-the-store-games, but open source games that can be quite fun. Many games also work under Linux albeit sometimes through a few rose bushes.

I wouldn't call them a lot of disadvantages though, and you're skipping over the fact windows has more disadvantages.

My Computer Engineering teacher has this program with Microsoft. She gets free software for class use, and got us all accounts on the site. From Windows XP to Microsoft Office to Vista.... I got a free copy of Vista, and installed it on another partition.

It's actually pretty nice. There isn't a huge difference from XP except some security options. Also the taskbar is transparent

I'll probably upgrade to it when it's officially released.

A free copy of Vista?

I didn't know Vista was finished yet fully, only the beta? The beta's free anyhow. Can't see how you could upgrade it without paying..

Well, probably within an Year, since I want to be able to play Halo 2 for the PC

Tim wrote:I will probably upgrade as soon as it is made available to me (note I didn't say as soon as it is available to the public), I personally quite like BETA 1 (though I'm not running it right now) and found that generally it ran very well on my old 1.7ghz Athlon XP with 512mb ram and a 64mb graphics card even with the memory leaks.

The DRM stuff doesn't worry me as such, its not going to last, thats why we have the internet so groups can hack and tear at any given product until the undesired quality is mysteriously gone.

I agree with you to a point, I could see microsoft simply fixing their drm crap after it's been hacked through windows update which most users blindly install anyway. What is more, I believe companies like intel and fujitsu are also on board with this TCPA thing so what will happen when TCPA modules are built into hardware? I feel no need to expand, on this, I am pretty sure I wrote another post about this stuff already. As for what I voted, doesn't my signature say it all?

Let's see...
Vista hogs resources and requires a high end CPU and a large amount of RAM just to run the thing.

I recently switched to XP from 2000 since I upgraded my computer. I don't use Windows much, unless I need to burn a Dreamcast game or play a PC game.

Linux is the OS for me. It looks much better than any Windows OS, and it can easily be customized without downloading tools that hack the skinning features in and have many bugs and can make the GUI unstable (such as the case with third-party Windows skinners). Maybe there is one that doesn't do that, but as far as I know, they all screw up during certain situations.

Anyway, until Microsoft proves otherwise, Vista doesn't offer anything appealing for me to switch. For one, once it's officially released, it will be hacked to death. Good luck to all the early adopters; I hope you have good firewalls in place. Also, my CPU does not support Vista. In addition, I'm sure there will be incompatibility issues with drivers and such. It's too much of a hassle.

One last point: unless you pirate (arr!) it, Vista will cost a lot of money. Money wasted, in my opinion.

Anyway, that's just my three and a half cents.

Boso wrote:I don't have the money to buy a PC where to run Vista . Also I'm trying to swtch from WIn to Linux as I'm sick of searching derials and keygens for stupid software that crashes or does nothing. And finaly even it is a finel version I guess that I'll feel like some beta tester as Windows allways has bugs and stuff that has to be fixed . I don't want to say that MS are doing bad products, it seems that the Linux it's better for some apps .

I have the same opinion and I wanna to run Linux Always but I cant

If I will continue to sue win I will use Vista when Upgrade my PC

To upgrade (actually downgrade) from Gnu/Linux to MS Vista? Are you Insane
Never

I won't... I'm doing grate with linux and freeBSD here...
Even if i would have wanted to try it out, only 2 of the 8 PC's i've got at home can actually run it... so no thanks...

I had to vote never because you left out when they make it from Linux.

A couple of days ago, I tried a 10-days old Vista-build.

And I actually liked it. But, I like Mac OS X and Linux better, even though I'm running Windows on my workstation (due to some programs, and I can't completly get away from it :p )

welli will have to do two major system upgrades one to my mac (10.5) and one to my PC (Vista) i will be an early adopter as i usually have been (can you say OS X beta leak?) =p

Samppa wrote:What you mean is that Linux does not have Adobe photoshop..
As for other multimedia, what do you mean?

Games are mainly made for Windows since most people use it, so there aren't many off-the-shelf-at-the-store-games, but open source games that can be quite fun. Many games also work under Linux albeit sometimes through a few rose bushes.

I wouldn't call them a lot of disadvantages though, and you're skipping over the fact windows has more disadvantages.

yeah I agree..you can play games on Linux but you have to pay monthly for a special software. I admit that there are many advantages that Linux has but still, as far as it goes to the user friendly side windows is better