Re: EULA - glad I chose Linux

BlackTopBum <going.vert@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

The fools will flock to it. Or, should I say lemmings ?

I make a voluntary donation, from a thankful heart, of at least $50 USD
yearly the distribution of my *choice*. Those poor souls suffer highway
robbery just to have the OS let alone a word processor, AV, etc at
further expense. Then they spend huge portions of their ever passing life
trying to keep MS OS usable between crashes, et al.

OMG!, we've got it made !!

I've been running Vista RC1 and OMG it's not good. It's a RC (in MS
speak that seems to mean beta) so there are some crashes. The RC is at
least as stable as XP though.

I've nearly broken Vista a couple of times, once by installing Office XP
and accidently letting Outlook become the default mail app. It took a
lot of fiddling to get Windows Mail back as the default (I'm testing it
with the default apps rather than just install Firefox and Thunderbird).

My system can't do the Aero glass eye candy so I have no idea what
that's like. The default look gives me a headache. It "feels" cluttered
but it's not.

The stupid security stuff asks me if I'm sure I want to do almost
everything. It gets to the point where you click ok (or equivalent)
without reading the dialog box because there are so many of them. That's
not very secure at all. I much prefer the Ubuntu/Mac OS X way of asking
for my password once and only on very specific admin tasks.

I have 1GB RAM, Vista easily uses 500MB when do nothing of that and eat
over 9GB of disk space just to install the OS.

On the plus side, Vista will recognise my Kodak camera without needing
any drivers (XP SP2 needs drivers even though it's an old camera),
something that Fedora, Ubuntu and Mac OS X have done for ages now.

That alone without the EULA bull*** and over-pricing will keep me using
Fedora, Ubuntu and OS X.

FC6 installs in 2GB disk space with tons of apps, uses less than 200MB
RAM do nothing. The Compiz eye candy works perfectly and is very
impressive, way ahead of the Vista demos I've seen. It's very stable, in
fact I haven't had a single crash since installing it on Saturday (I'll
get loads now I've said that). The Gnome UI is much cleaner and doesn't
give me a headache.

I use XP at work (no choice :( ) so I'm used to it. I found Vista very
hard to use at first because things are so different and I was looking
in the wrong places for some things. Some people use the excuse that
Gnome or KDE are too different to XP so they, or others, can't move to
Linux. What excuse will they use now I wonder?

--
Andy.
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