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From: RodMcKay on 12 Nov 2009 07:13
I've been fed up with Windows ever since I switched from a Win98SE box
to WinXP a couple of years ago. But I haven't made the switch for
various reasons, one of them being the sheer numbers of Windows
programs I use. I'm ready to see how to do the switch anyway and see
how Wine works. But that seems to defeat the purpose.

So thought I'd ask for any comments from anyone who has already made
the switch. I mean, anything has practically got to be better than
Windows, but just curious as to what the major adjustments might have
been for other Windows users. thx.

From: MarcB on 12 Nov 2009 08:18
RodMcKay wrote:

> I've been fed up with Windows ever since I switched from a Win98SE box
> to WinXP a couple of years ago. But I haven't made the switch for
> various reasons, one of them being the sheer numbers of Windows
> programs I use. I'm ready to see how to do the switch anyway and see
> how Wine works. But that seems to defeat the purpose.
>
> So thought I'd ask for any comments from anyone who has already made
> the switch. I mean, anything has practically got to be better than
> Windows, but just curious as to what the major adjustments might have
> been for other Windows users. thx.

I made the change when vista came out.
At first I dual booted windows & linux, after knowing linux a little
better, I erased windows from my hard drive in order to have more space
for films.

On my site, I described the process, and wrote down some settings as a
memory aid.

https://sites.google.com/site/marcshomesite/Home

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MarcB
From: philo on 12 Nov 2009 08:18
RodMcKay wrote:
> I've been fed up with Windows ever since I switched from a Win98SE box
> to WinXP a couple of years ago. But I haven't made the switch for
> various reasons, one of them being the sheer numbers of Windows
> programs I use. I'm ready to see how to do the switch anyway and see
> how Wine works. But that seems to defeat the purpose.
>
> So thought I'd ask for any comments from anyone who has already made
> the switch. I mean, anything has practically got to be better than
> Windows, but just curious as to what the major adjustments might have
> been for other Windows users. thx.
>


I switched over at the beginning of the year and though I had been using
Linux at least part time...once in a while need to get used to some of
the differences.

After I ended up getting a root kit on my XP machine...
I will never use Windows again to perform on-line financial transactions.

For the most part I've found a good Linux application to replace what I
had been using on Windows...and for some of the Windows applications I
still use...I've found that in Wine they will run without any problems.


However...I still need to use XP on occasion...
when I work from home, my company uses video conferencing software that
only runs on Windows
From: philo on 12 Nov 2009 08:57
MarcB wrote:
> RodMcKay wrote:
>
>> I've been fed up with Windows ever since I switched from a Win98SE box
>> to WinXP a couple of years ago. But I haven't made the switch for
>> various reasons, one of them being the sheer numbers of Windows
>> programs I use. I'm ready to see how to do the switch anyway and see
>> how Wine works. But that seems to defeat the purpose.
>>
>> So thought I'd ask for any comments from anyone who has already made
>> the switch. I mean, anything has practically got to be better than
>> Windows, but just curious as to what the major adjustments might have
>> been for other Windows users. thx.
>
> I made the change when vista came out.
> At first I dual booted windows & linux, after knowing linux a little
> better, I erased windows from my hard drive in order to have more space
> for films.
>
> On my site, I described the process, and wrote down some settings as a
> memory aid.
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/marcshomesite/Home
>


Good info

I did a test install of Vista and there were no drivers for my very
common sound card and SCSI card.

Even with all the updates and the system tweaked for best performance...
it ran terribly.

I installed Linux and was very happy to see that *all* my hardware was
detected just fine. As someone who has been using Linux on a part time
basis for many years...this was the year I made the transition to it
being my main OS.

Since my machine has removable drive kits...I can compare different
operating systems on the same H/W


My main machine is a dual core XP-2800+ with three gigs of RAM



The speed test I ran was simply copy an entire CD to the harddrive,
then delete it.


Using either Linux or XP...the time was about the same...

however from Vista...it took *twice* as long


Though Microsoft has now lost me as a customer...
I suppose I should give Win7 a try...
but I will not be using it other than for evaluation
From: J.O. Aho on 12 Nov 2009 13:04
RodMcKay wrote:
> So thought I'd ask for any comments from anyone who has already made
> the switch. I mean, anything has practically got to be better than
> Windows, but just curious as to what the major adjustments might have
> been for other Windows users. thx.

I have only used microsoft for a short time, if excluding AmigaOS, I can't say
I do miss anything of what I had for microsoft, OpenOffice is far better than
micorsoft office, gimp work more than well for me so don't miss photoshop,
mplayer beats all video players for microsoft.
The only thing you may miss is the games, but better to get a proper game
console for that instead of using a crashing operating system.



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//Aho
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