Comments on: How Many People Does It Take To Remove A Wireless Network From Windows Vista?

By: cron

cron — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:53:51 +0000

you know what is funny?? i was newer been user linux i was run yaaaars windows …one day i was seen on youtube video with 3d efects ubuntu compiz mac os desktops and lots of more things and finaly i was find that ubuntu is free ya and top story my second instalation ubuntu 7.10 work after 20 minuts and all guide plus wireles on atheros which is big pain after 1 hour that was 7.10 now i run 8.10 ubuntu between that i was try 4 diferent linux distros ohhhh guy windows is and will be crap sorry my MAC desktop from yesterday i was change today for wista look about one klick ,camera ,tv what ever you want on toshiba laptop im more happy with linux like windows i remember that times wery well

By: Suitchaself

Suitchaself — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:55:13 +0000

For those of you complainin’ about google.com giving a lot of strange results when you search about Linux, try typing http://www.google.com/linux in that case google.com will show you 99.99% results on stuff only about linux.

By: asmiller-ke6seh

asmiller-ke6seh — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:54:16 +0000

Oh, boy! The OS wars are heating up again! But wait until Windows 7 is released to the marketplace with an invitation to “upgrade” from Windows XP!!! There is no upgrade path – just a discounted purchase of a new operating system. People are going to have to back up their essential data, and upgrade loads of application software, and learn a new interface.

This is a perfect time to move from XP to Ubuntu. You will still have to backup essential data, and you will still have to “upgrade” applications software … BUT, there is no out-of-pocket expense to move from XP to Ubuntu. Think of all the money that one can save by abandoning Micr$oftland for the wonderful world of Open Source Solutions!

I, for one, am glad that I made the transition from XP to Ubuntu 6.04. I am already free of the Tyranny of the “Masters of the Universe” in Redmond
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ubuntu – life without windows

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:26:59 +0000

I think what people don’t realise is that XP doesn’t ‘work just fine’ and it did need an upgrade. To the normal user, XP does work just fine, but I’ve spent a lot longer trying to fix XP than vista.

Although I do have a slightly biased viewpoint as I switched from 2k to Vista. 2k was great!

Quick side note to the guy saying that consoles outclass computers: Every generation of consoles quickly gets overtaken by PCs (if it was better in the first place).

By: ikt

ikt — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:05:32 +0000

Linux = Sitting in front of it for hours compiling, installing, and setting up. <- You’re doing it wrong…

By: splashneverquit

splashneverquit — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:30:11 +0000

hey there people…

my first contact with ubuntu was with the 6.10 like 2 years ago..i thought it was gr8…but i knew it had its problems…so i went back to windows…but i was waiting for ubuntu to comeout with a distro that handles all my problems…

anyway…recently i aquired a vista for my laptop…amilo pro v3205…

and i had to spend a week….A WEEK…downloading the drivers for my laptop from the fujitsu siemens site..thats the ones i found there that worked….

when i was totally fed up…i removed vista…got back to xp…and downloaded ubuntu 8.10…..

8.10 INSTALLED AND WORKING UNDER 20 MINUTES… I DIDNT NEED A SINGLE DRIVER FROM ANYWHERE..UNLIKE XP AND VISTA

MY LAPTOP WORKS LIKE A WONDER…ALTHOUGHT ITS DAMN OLD AND WEAK,, i have all the screen effects,…damn cool….

WANNA SEE WINDOWS DO THAT …LOL

and last ..

i bought a usb dongle…placed it in my USB 2.0 slot….and pressed connect
and i was connected……!!!!!:D:D:D:D

i tried the same dongle with my moms sony viao laptop. centrino duo 2.8 4 giga ram running vista….IT TOOK ME 15 MINUTES TO JUST INSTALL THE DAMN USB DONGLE ON WINDOWS…

VIVA LA UBUNTU…….SPLASHNEVERQUIT FROM EGYPT…CIAO…

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:34:14 +0000

@Josh
Get real, xp and Vista are worlds apart as far apart as XP and Ubuntu if not more so. My GF is on Vista and we both hate it. I wont buy a new computer because it would probably come with Vista. Vista is an overblown, try-to-be-pretty Windows OS trying to copy linux. And it fails miserably. I have big hope for Windows 7 if they learn from their Vista mistaket ehy might just keep my business, otherwise I will kiss windows good bye forever. As for games everyone knows that consoles will out class PC’s and only continue to do so in the future (and dont even get me started on the quality of an xbox 360 as a console…red ring of death, a flaw so common and so bad they had to come up with a jingle for it). I like microsoft I really do (wont touch apple products not even itunes…unless I am forced to for work) but they had better learn their lessons from Vista or they will lose their market share…point finale

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:17:09 +0000

My Ubuntu experience:
I was given a Dell Dimension E510 because the individual had problems with the PC and had given up on trying to fix it. I updated the BIOS which SEEMED to fix the problem, The individual that gave me the PC did want to keep the hard drive and monitor, so I purchased a new drive and a widescreen monitor.
I did not have a legit copy of windows XP or Vista so I installed Ubuntu Feisty. Only one issue. Ubuntu wanted to use the wrong resolution for the monitor. I had this issue resolved with about 15 minutes of research. To my pleasant surprise, Feisty detected my wireless network card without any action on my part.
I upgraded Feisty to Gutsy. No issues.
Next came a new Nvidia Video card and More RAM. Again, no issues.
My other PC with WinXP installed was extremely old and SLOOOOW, so I retired it. I then reformatted the Hard drive on the E510 and installed XP and Ubuntu Gutsy (dual boot). Within 1 week, Windows started giving errors that made the PC unusable (the same errors the original owner had). I could only use XP for about 30 minutes before the OS forced me to reboot or rebooted automatically. Again, no issues when using Ubunutu.
I then wiped Windows and did a fresh install of Ubuntu Hardy (approximately 10 days after it was released). I had only one issue and it did not prevent me from using the PC. I could not install the restricted drivers for my Nvidia card. This issue was resolved after the first update (the same day I installed Hardy).
I’m a relative newbie to Ubuntu, but, this experience has convinced me. Neither OS is perfect, but, for some reason, Problems with a free OS are less frustrating to me than one that costs $100 or more.
I now have a PC that I customized exactly the way I want to and operates without a hitch, but would be just a huge paper weight if it had XP installed.

By: Manky Gitt

Manky Gitt — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:21:06 +0000

Clearly the discussion here is not represented by the MS Windows-only community. I think the comments about marketing to the windows crowd are somewhat misguided: This clearly is not a billboard that Windows Users frequent (unless they happen to also use a linux OS). Promoting an alternate to Windows if that is your hobby should occur on a Windows forum site if anywhere.

Personally I use both OS’s and find that neither is a perfect total solution. It seems to me that at present there is a need to collaborate more closely on how to take the best of all the OS choices and REALLY make a difference. Sniping and bitching doesn’t win the game for anyone.

Both OS’s cost a lot of money to support. 1 has cheaper entry fees (linux), but requires significant person-hours when attempting to deploy to an enterprise. The licence fee savings are soon absorbed in the personnel costs.

On the other hand – a half deployed linux network seems to stay up longer with less successful breaches than one finds in the MS counterpart.

About Vista specifically: Yes – it looks different. To paraphrase nnonix’s observation: Expecting the same functions from a new or different OS is insanity: If you are making a change (or if change is forced on you) you must prepare to invest effort in understanding the new OS for what it is, not for what it like, or in the case of this topic, what it is not like.

In closing: The work from Canonical is astoundingly good given the regularity and completeness of releases, especially for the licence fee charged. If nothing else it is raising the bar for Microsoft, IBM, and Apple. From competition comes good things.

By: Peter Jones

Peter Jones — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:26:18 +0000

The posts about Google searching for answers is interesting. I find the Ubuntu Forum to be the best their is. Also UbuntuGuide is great. However I also use SUSE and the forums and support available for that do not compare. I have been trying to learn Visual Studio Express (I am not against Microsoft I use both each has their strengths) and when you look at the training materials on the Microsoft site it is a mess.. Some of it still for Visual Studio 2005, and some for 2008. No mention of what works on the express editions until you try and download a sample and find it does not work. I am also learning MySQL and PHP and opening a database takes three lines of code rather that some nightmare in ASP!