On 2/1/08, Michael Rigby-Jones <Michael.Rigby-Jones@bookham.com> wrote:
>
>
> > But at the end of the day, if you want to complain about speed, the
> > constant upgrade mill, DRM, bloatware, etc then you should probably
> > just move to Linux.
>
> IME most Linux distributions 'suffer' from the same fate as MS's
> offerings.  Every new generation seems runs slower and require more
> hardware resources.

That is if you are doing the same type of work and use the same
type of software. In that case, I think that is the norm for the IT
industry as a whole. So you have to live with it.

But the new (and hence the "greatest") software will enable you
to do new things right out of the box.

You can always keep your old stuff around.

> I bought a new laptop (in a hurry as previous one died) that
> unfortunately came with Vista.  I decided to stick with it to see if I
> could learn to like it, but even with all the fancy graphics turned off,
> and the interface set to "classic" mode I still end up getting
> frustrated with it, so it will be replaced with XP as soon as I have
> time.

If you get frustrated by Vista so soon, no wonder you get frustrated
with Linux as well.

Anyway, XP will still be around and usable for most of the things.
So I think it is also nothing wrong to replace Vista with XP for now.
Maybe you will bring back Vista in the future.



Xiaofan
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