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Mike, as I am genuinely interested (I've tried and failed linux before, but I'll doubtless try again) are you suggesting that on my fairly good PC I will be able to run modern games, such as Crysis and Call of Duty WaW the same as in vista (dx10 etc..), if you are, then I'll add another (suggested) distro to my download client, for now I have a vista liscence, but one day I'll be letting it expire

MikeWhitehead

tonyhague wrote: »

Elite (bbc) vs Elite (Atari ST500) vs Elite (PC Dos)

Sadly tony, I was born the same year Elite was released! Can't comment on this one

Millionaire

MikeWhitehead wrote: »

Ummmm...you may feel rather foolish now that you've said that.

Vista hasn't gained, Windows has LOST market share.

Windows overall and XP have lost Marketshare, Vista has gained marketshare. So Conor would be correct.

MikeWhitehead

Jaffa. wrote: »

I like the look of vistas GUI, compared to Windows XP, blue and green what were they thinking

I take it Windows 7 will have the same sort of look. I've seen some screen shots of it, it looked like the KDE desktop? or at least it was customised to look like that.

Yes W7 will have a similar GUI to Vista, although I personally think it looks better (I don't know, more airy?) Also on the KDE front, from what I hear they will have some similar sort of aspects, but won't be TOO similar.

MikeWhitehead

Millionaire wrote: »

Windows overall and XP have lost Marketshare, Vista has gained marketshare. So Conor would be correct.

Ok I'll give him that Vista has gained market share from its release, but that's not really a fair comparison. You can't compare a single OS to a kernel on which many OSs are built. Therefore, the comparison should be Windows and Linux.

Conor_3

hemophobic wrote: »

I've been using an xp machine for years until few months ago i got vista and i dont even see a big difference (and i'm doing systems support IT at college)

Shall we start with a list?

• New TCP/IP stack
• NTFS 6
• New Bootloader
• Native IPv6 support
• No access to the kernel for drivers
• New graphics and sound framework
• New driver model
• IE now sandboxed.
• Massively improved search
• Bitlocker drive encryption
• Shadow Copy allowing you to restore previous revisions of a file.
• File copy operation changes
• Non English languages can be applied on a per user basis
• JPG files can be set as the desktop background without having to use Active Desktop
• IIS7 which is modular and contains a core web server instead of the monolith that was in previous versions of IIS
• Windows Setup now runs in a WinPE environment instead of a DOS session.
• Kernel Patch Protection
• UAC
• Address Space Layout Randomisation
• Parental rules
• Windows Firewall now filters outbound
• Large range of system performance measuring tools.
• Windows Imaging Component
• New Colour Infrastructure and Translation Engine
• More configurable power management options
• Windows Mobility Center
• Windows Mobile Devices API

And that's before we get to all the GUI changes....want me to go on, thicko?

I suggest you go find another subject as you're not very good.

Conor_3

MikeWhitehead wrote: »

So are you trying to say Vista was a complete code restructure? If not, then what was it based on? Ding ding ding, we have a winner.

Goodnight.

Yes I am. It is based on the Windows Server 2008 kernel.

Jaffa.

MikeWhitehead wrote: »

Ok I'll give him that Vista has gained market share from its release, but that's not really a fair comparison. You can't compare a single OS to a kernel on which many OSs are built. Therefore, the comparison should be Windows and Linux.

Of course Vista is going to gain market share, it comes pre-installed on most windows computers now. When someone buys a computer with Vista they essentially buy vista.

Besides more people are going to buy a PC as they would be more compatible with work/school

MikeWhitehead

tonyhague wrote: »

Mike, as I am genuinely interested (I've tried and failed linux before, but I'll doubtless try again) are you suggesting that on my fairly good PC I will be able to run modern games, such as Crysis and Call of Duty WaW the same as in vista (dx10 etc..), if you are, then I'll add another (suggested) distro to my download client, for now I have a vista liscence, but one day I'll be letting it expire

No of course you won't run them under their DX10 modes as support isn't available for WINE. You can run many modern games at a decent rate (remember WINE Is Not an Emulator), but it's all down to preference. If you are more interested in gaming and doing so with absolute maximum abilities, then you will obviously need to run them natively - that goes with all non-nativity.

If gaming is purely what you want, then dual boot can also be your friend to get your fill of Linux goodness

Conor_3

MikeWhitehead wrote: »

Ummmm...you may feel rather foolish now that you've said that.

Vista hasn't gained, Windows has LOST market share.

According to whom? Oh yeah, Netstats which gets its figures from its 9000 partners who peddle ads on websites. Well I for one don't see them because I have an adblocker so according to Netstats, neither of my two Vista computers exists. And if you don't actually visit a site that has ads served by these partners, your computer won't exist either apparently.

If you're going to use a source, at least use a decent one that aggregates data from several sources including Netstats. Wikipedia has such a page.