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2ax

why not do this with Vista?

andreboyle

I have to say it's sad to see so many negative comments from people who most likely haven't used the product. Stability is excellent and the benefits worthwhile.

The majority of instability in Windows is caused by poorly written 3rd party apps and drivers. The core windows tends to be mostly stable. Before I get flamed this comes from supporting thousands of desktops in a 10+ year career in IT and not a few installs at home. Though to be fair I have 5 PCs just now running Windows OSs and they're all perfectly stable.

Windows CAN be stables, Linus CAN be stable, UNIX CAN be stable and Netware CAN be stable. Equally they can all be very unstable, it's all in the config.

Also, testing of Vista so far shows is to be a good OS with noticeable speed improvements on lower spec machines. If you're looking for an alternative try Linspire (Linux at a cost.)

identitymismatch

And you'll really want more than 256MB RAM... but that's just to run XP in the first place ;-)

So far I've heard it offers performance improvements over the 32 bit version - but really you'd be far better off going with something like SuSE Linux. It's free, easy to install and pretty straightforward to use. Note that it also comes with Open Office 2, so you're saving money there too. There are a few downsides; the biggest one for me is that DVD decryption (i.e. playback of purchased DVD movies) doesn't come out of the box, but don't get me started on the insane background to that one!

Get Linux. If you're the sort of person who chooses a 64-bit processor you're probably the sort of person who'll find the change a piece of cake. I'd love to recommend Linux to everyone, but I know that the learning curve might phase one or two.

Mr_Skint_2

andreboyle wrote:

Before I get flamed this comes from supporting thousands of desktops in a 10+ year career in IT and not a few installs at home.

Windows CAN be stables, Linus CAN be stable

Horses live in Stables, and I think youll find thats Linux... :rotfl:


I wouldnt trust MS with a Coffee perculator, and why should joe bloggs always
have to do Mickeysofts work, If thats the case wheres my wages.. :rolleyes: