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23rd August 2005, 12:06 AM
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Reps: 127 (power: 0) | | | Not if you tweak it appropriately... Also I have never encountered a corrupted one nor one with missing files oO I've gotten my version of home and pro, both legal working just as fast as eachother. |
23rd August 2005, 01:08 AM
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Reps: 17,207 (power: 30) | | | If I didn't use Flash so often to make images, it's a sure bet would install Fedora in a couple of weeks. As far as I can tell Flash is one of the few software purchases I made in the past where I'm getting my money's worth. Probably the other good purchase is Acrobat distiller. Neither of these programs will run on Fedora. So I'll probably keep on getting irritated with XP for a little while yet.
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23rd August 2005, 09:57 AM
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I found that if I load win98se first, then update to XP, it runs as well as my 98 did......which is fantastic.
But installing just XP and its file system alone, my machine ran so badly I was ready to toss the XP disk in the trash.
I dont know if XP offers much of anything that is worth the irritation.
Surely the ease it makes of burning cds isnt worth all this Originally Posted by Les Grands Pieds I hate XP. What kind of [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] operating system tries to put itself into standby when you're trying to login? What kind of operating system will fill an entire floppy before it realizes that it doesn't have enough space to store the file that you're trying to save? Not that I actaully still use floppies, but it's not like it doesn't do this with any disk you put in the computer.
Why is my little 1 GHz eMac running Panther 20 times better than the 3 GHz Pentium 4 machine running XP downstairs? What allows it to pound the XP machine into the ground in every task I do?
People are always trying to tell me how fast XP is, but compared to what? A slug? What do you have to judge it up against?
I can't go down and use the XP machines for more than 20 minutes without wanting to throw them into the ground. I've built PCs (by hand), but since I got my Mac, they just disgust me now.
If you think you're XP machine is so great, then I dare you to switch to a Mac and see what you're missing. XP SUCKS!  |
23rd August 2005, 10:01 AM
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Reps: 1,075 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by bigat I have no problems w/ my XP Pro Machine. Just be sure you keep it clean from spyware, adware, and viruses - other than that - flying high.
Or just stick w/ firefox - helps to keep it clean.
Mine ran like trash tho, just after a fresh install with service pack 2 and all automatic updates.
I have an XP processor and mb as well.
It ran horribly, not letting me start applications, not letting me install applications, not running even older games like Morrowind hardly at all.
I reinstalled win98se, then updated to XP this time, keeping the fat32 file system, and it runs like a charm.
Makes no sense to me at all. |
23rd August 2005, 10:31 AM
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Reps: 925,495,331,517,238,656 (power: 925,495,331,517,268) | | Originally Posted by Egghead Mine ran like trash tho, just after a fresh install with service pack 2 and all automatic updates.
I have an XP processor and mb as well.
It ran horribly, not letting me start applications, not letting me install applications, not running even older games like Morrowind hardly at all.
I reinstalled win98se, then updated to XP this time, keeping the fat32 file system, and it runs like a charm.
Makes no sense to me at all.
FAT32 has a lot less security...that's probably why it runs smoother.  |
23rd August 2005, 10:51 AM
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Reps: 10,411 (power: 20) | | Originally Posted by Koba The Dread I must say, I've never had any problems with any of my XP machines(two of them btw)
Me too man, no problems and I have to deal with many XP machines at work and mine at home.
Also never had trouble with ME... I'm the only person I know (in real life or online) that had a flawless run with ME for over two years. 95 and 98 tho were crash monsters...
The only problems I've seen with XP relate to the nurses at work getting garbage installed on them (which I think they should be fired for, it is against our hospital policy for them to be surfing the web for anything non-work related). I have not used any Macs to compare my PCs with in regards to speed or reliability.
What little I've seen of Macs (physical apearance, not software/OS) makes them look too "pretty" for me, I want a tool, an apliance, not a decoration. Take that Mac and put it in a black rectangular case and I'll take it more seriously.
In regards to Linux, I used Mandrake 8.0 for a while but could not aquire software for it to make it useful to me so I stopped using it. I'm sure the software base is bigger now for Linux, but until I have another spare PC to play with it on I'm not going to dual boot my main PC (and confuse my wife and risk messing up the windoze partition the way I did the first time I tried it).
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23rd August 2005, 11:21 AM
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Reps: 10 (power: 0) | | | I run a duel boot between Linux Mepis and Windows XP on my computer at the moment.
I don't like Windows as an OS. The look of it is ugly compared to KDE 3.3+
The way it tries and do things for you like when you try typing a word document "It looks like you are writing a letter" is very annoying.
When a computer has had windows on it for about 3 years it slows all the way down and this then causes people to go out and buy new computers.
Windows is very dangerous on the internet, lots of security threats, however there are not yet any known viruses for Linux yet as viruses for linux are hard to make so people don't bother.
Internet Explorer is the worst browser ever made many security threats.
I could go on and on about Windows...
The only reason people get Windows is because it comes preinstalled on their computer.
As you can tell I love Linux and believe me once you get it your life in the computing world becomes so much easier. I only ever use windows xp on my computer for gaming. |
23rd August 2005, 11:32 AM
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Reps: 10,411 (power: 20) | | Originally Posted by Mikesoft The way it tries and do things for you like when you try typing a word document "It looks like you are writing a letter" is very annoying.
That is just the Office software, and it is an easy to disable "feature" LOL. Originally Posted by Mikesoft When a computer has had windows on it for about 3 years it slows all the way down and this then causes people to go out and buy new computers.
That has less to do with an intentional windows flaw and more to do with a problem with the registry. A format/reinstall of windows always seems to clear this up for me (I do it almost yearly because I like to start clean ocasionally - yeah, I know, I don't really have to, but it is so easy for me to do it that I don't mind). Originally Posted by Mikesoft Windows is very dangerous on the internet, lots of security threats, however there are not yet any known viruses for Linux yet as viruses for linux are hard to make so people don't bother.
It isn't that the viruses are harder to write, it has more to do with there being less linux and mac PCs out there so people don't bother writing viruses for them if they're only going to affect .5 % of the computers out there. Originally Posted by Mikesoft Internet Explorer is the worst browser ever made many security threats.
Yeah, I agree there. A lot of Windows vulnerabilities come from the fact that Internet Explorer is built into the OS rather than a separate piece of software... that does suck. Originally Posted by Mikesoft The only reason people get Windows is because it comes preinstalled on their computer.
That may indeed be true.
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23rd August 2005, 11:36 AM
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Reps: 10 (power: 0) | | A format/reinstall of windows always seems to clear this up for me (I do it almost yearly because I like to start clean ocasionally - yeah, I know, I don't really have to, but it is so easy for me to do it that I don't mind).
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23rd August 2005, 04:02 PM
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Reps: 187,858,023,962 (power: 187,858,031) | | It isn't that the viruses are harder to write, it has more to do with there being less linux and mac PCs out there so people don't bother writing viruses for them if they're only going to affect .5 % of the computers out there.
IMO this is a ½ truth. The reason why viruses are not so common with Linux is because you have to be logged in as root to change critical settings and its still hard to altr system files. As long as you are not logged in as root there are ony a few things you can change and its mainly only the cosmetics of KDE, Gnome or whatever XWindows you use.
As for MAC yes I think far less users is a trait but, the new MAC OSs are using UNIX/Linux based code..way kewl and smart move by Apple. I never was really in to Apple comps, I will be buying a MAC at the beginning of next year now because of the change in code. | | |
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