How many people on here are using Vista?

    Paul Lamar


I won't touch any Microsoft product unless I have to.

Best Regards,

Steve Thomas

2 of my laptops have vista, everything else is XP, vista is the pits.

Decker, Michael

OK, Paul...

This thread has gone on for awhile, and you never said WHY you want to
know how many use Vista!  If nothing else, you sure started a thread
that got a lot of lurkers interested in responding...and from what I
see, the vast majority are not quite in favor of Vista.

I think you've broken open a hornet's nest...was this your intent?

Harley

I have a friend that wants to sell a new product for engines.
Part of the product is off the shelf software. He tried the software
on Vista and it did not run while it runs fine on XP.
I told him to forget Vista and just make if for XP. He did not believe me :)

He could also supply free Ubunta Linux distro on a bootable DVD along with
the software as the software also runs on Linux.

BTW Open Office runs fine on Linux. So does Thunder Bird and Firefox.

As most of you well know I have
been running Linux for eleven years now and it just keeps getting easier
and easier to install. It has always been rock solid. Yes some programs
crash from time to time but there are other free programs that do the
same thing that don't crash. 99% of the time that does not affect
the OS. You just kill the offending program and go on. The source
code for the OS is freely published so there are thousands of programmers
around the world looking at it and fixing bugs and improving it
constantly.

When a person sets out to write a book on the OS
he has available the source code so he knows exactly which way it works.
The books on Windows are one tenth as comprehensive because
nobody can look under the hood. It is like buying a car with the hood
welded shut.

I would never connect a Windows computer to the internet as the anti virus
software checks all I/O slowing the computer enormously. Also every time
you go online the back door automatically sends message to Microsoft.

No activation required for Linux or back door to Microsoft constantly looking
over your shoulder. No cost to upgrade either. Almost all software is free.
Most of them automatically install over the internet in seconds.
There are some command line programs that search a couple of hundred thousand
file names in seconds. 100 times faster than is possible in Windows.
It has a real easy to use screen capture program. So far I have
been unable to get that feature to work on Robin's Mac.
I use the heck out of that.

On the down side some specialized programs like Rhino that
don't run on Linux so I keep an XP computer around to run them.
99% of the files will work with either OS. You can put them on a local
network or you can use a sneaker net with 32 GigiByte  USB stick.

Paul Lamar