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harvey
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      08-08-2008

Ubuntu:

http://fosswire.com/2008/04/24/ubunt...-heron-review/

Vista:

http://reviews.cnet.com/windows/wind...-32013603.html


One costs dearly

whilst the other is FREE !!!

Thoughts? Comments?
 
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Bruno
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      08-08-2008
"harvey" wrote:
> Ubuntu:
> http://fosswire.com/2008/04/24/ubunt...-heron-review/
>
> Vista:
> http://reviews.cnet.com/windows/wind...-32013603.html
>
> One costs dearly
> whilst the other is FREE !!!
> Thoughts? Comments?


Are you a Linux cult member?


 
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Hobbes
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      08-08-2008
"harvey" <> wrote in message
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>
> Ubuntu:
>
> http://fosswire.com/2008/04/24/ubunt...-heron-review/
>
> Vista:
>
> http://reviews.cnet.com/windows/wind...-32013603.html
>
>
> One costs dearly
>
> whilst the other is FREE !!!
>
> Thoughts? Comments?
>



For overall ease of use, performance, hardware capability ... Vista.

For free ... ubuntu ... it's free for a reason.
Malware usually is free : )

--
Hobbes, Tiger Extraordinaire

 
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Bruno
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      08-08-2008
"harvey" wrote:
>
> Ubuntu:
>
> http://fosswire.com/2008/04/24/ubunt...-heron-review/
>
> Vista:
>
> http://reviews.cnet.com/windows/wind...-32013603.html
>
>
> One costs dearly
>
> whilst the other is FREE !!!
>
> Thoughts? Comments?


For running programs: Vista (but I prefer XP)

For playing with the OS and drivers: Ubuntu


 
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HeyBub
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      08-08-2008
harvey wrote:
> Ubuntu:
>
> http://fosswire.com/2008/04/24/ubunt...-heron-review/
>
> Vista:
>
> http://reviews.cnet.com/windows/wind...-32013603.html
>
>
> One costs dearly
>
> whilst the other is FREE !!!
>
> Thoughts? Comments?


It's roughly the difference between a chorus girl and a blow-up doll.


 
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Ringmaster
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      08-08-2008
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:02:14 -0400, "Hobbes" <>
wrote:


>For overall ease of use, performance, hardware capability ... Vista.
>
>For free ... ubuntu ... it's free for a reason.
>Malware usually is free : )


Typical fanboy comment. You twits simply can't be objective. One
reason I LOVE to make fun of you clods. It's so easy. Is Ubuntu the
right choice for everyone? Hell no! Neither is Vista. That's the point
that sails far over the heads of the Microsoft faithful.

It is really a matter of degree. Judging by the simplistic bunch that
hang out here Ubuntu is clearly a good alternative if all you are
doing is surfing the web, email, some rudimentary tasks. Clearly Vista
can do that too. Which is after all the point. Why spends hundreds of
dollars for Vista if Ubuntu can fill your needs?

For the rest of us stuck with Vista my main gripe is you rather than
getting the promised WOW, your first impression is blah. Aero, for all
the hype Microsoft gave it is a huge disappointment. Just eye candy
fluff. Poke below the surface and you can't even tweak it in any
useful way. If you try, you're stuck falling back to Classic themes
which don't support Vista.

Yes, Vista's Search abilities have been improved, once you understand
how to use them, but again Microsoft fell flat on their face in the
implementation... a common theme often repeated.

What should be rock solid in a operating system around for over twenty
years, the all important shell, still sucks and often will give you
the moronic Explorer encountered a problem and needs to close message.
File copying for many is painfully slow compared to XP. IE7 is bug
riddled and still falls easy prey to hackers and script kiddies.

What should be Microsoft strength, how it handles multimedia is awful.
The included Media Player often sputters, stalls, refuses to play
industry standard file types. Burning a CD or DVD can causes playback
issues on earlier versions of Windows. Images imported from cameras
can end up getting corrupted. The still crude Disk Management and
Defragmenter tools are at least ten years beyond third party
alternatives. The included Paint, a mere toy incapable of doing
anything beyond the most basic tasks.

Windows Explorer may still refuse to remember how you told it to sort
files. Windows resize and reset their location on your desktop. You
icons placed on your desktop can get totally rearranged if you change
resolution or suffer certain types of system crashes.

I could go on, but I already made my point. Vista isn't polished. Many
would say it still behaves like a Beta. UAC is an insult to your
intelligence and most quickly turn it off.

The bottom line is Ubuntu is a labor of love. Just a bunch of people
working together to offer something that performs quite well and is
offered free. Vista was produced by the world's largest software
developer that supposedly has some of the best talent on the planet.
They demand hundreds of dollars per copy, refuse to listen to customer
suggestions on how to improve it, won't supply help unless you pay for
it and expect their customers to act as unpaid beta testers and never
have been able to release a stable version of Windows until after at
least one Service Pack has patched it's many flaws.

Anyone OBJECTIVELY looking at Vista at best gives it a mediocre
rating. Anyone ranking it higher simply doesn't have a clue what
they're talking about.

 
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The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly Known as Nina DiBoy'
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      08-08-2008
HeyBub kneeled before the porcelain god and vomited:
> harvey wrote:
>> Ubuntu:
>>
>> http://fosswire.com/2008/04/24/ubunt...-heron-review/
>>
>> Vista:
>>
>> http://reviews.cnet.com/windows/wind...-32013603.html
>>
>>
>> One costs dearly
>>
>> whilst the other is FREE !!!
>>
>> Thoughts? Comments?

>
> It's roughly the difference between a chorus girl and a blow-up doll.
>
>


You speak as if you know this from experience.

--
"...every non-modular OS SUCKS...Speaking for myself only."
- zachd [MSFT]

DRM and unintended consequences:
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/se...35&tag=nl.e101
 
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Frank
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      08-08-2008
Ringmaster wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:02:14 -0400, "Hobbes" <>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>>For overall ease of use, performance, hardware capability ... Vista.
>>
>>For free ... ubuntu ... it's free for a reason.
>>Malware usually is free : )

>
>
> Typical fanboy comment.


Typical, insulting response from our resident drunken lying pig.

You twits simply can't be objective. One
> reason I LOVE to make fun of you clods. It's so easy. Is Ubuntu the
> right choice for everyone? Hell no! Neither is Vista. That's the point
> that sails far over the heads of the Microsoft faithful.


You are insane (as we all know!).

<--deleted the rest of this pig's raging incoherent rant as a public
service-->
 
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KDE
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      08-08-2008

"HeyBub" <> wrote in message
news:%23cAGcyY%...
> harvey wrote:
>> Ubuntu:
>>
>> http://fosswire.com/2008/04/24/ubunt...-heron-review/
>>
>> Vista:
>>
>> http://reviews.cnet.com/windows/wind...-32013603.html
>>
>>
>> One costs dearly
>>
>> whilst the other is FREE !!!
>>
>> Thoughts? Comments?

>
> It's roughly the difference between a chorus girl and a blow-up doll.


best comparison yet ! They both may get the job done in the end, but.......


 
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Bill Yanaire
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      08-08-2008
Most know newsgroups such as these attract trolls. Ringmaster
is obviously a troll, to be more precise the troll in residence
in this newsgroup, but Ringmaster is much more than your
garden variety troll.

Ringmaster is a buffoon. That simply means Ringmaster
is a clown, obviously some poorly educated loser, what many
would simply call stupid. To prove that point, shortly after Ringmaster
reads this there's a better than 50% chance he'll remove his
name in the title, substitute mine, maybe change a few words around and
pretend he wrote the post. That's a classic Ringmaster ****wit move.

What's a ****wit? Really we're getting into degrees of stupid. Ringmaster
excels at showing how stupid he can be. Ringmaster
loves to be the internet bully. Anyone raising any issue that
differ with Ringmaster, Ringmaster
automatically spews a familiar string of obscenities. For good measure
Ringmaster will usually accuse the poster of being a ****wit and
will say they are too stupid to have an opinion and will post infantile
comments more common to six year olds playing some non-stop games.

Ringmaster craves attention and acceptance, so he tries hard
to impress people. He loves to pretend he runs a business and is an
Accountant. Sometimes Ringmaster gets really carried away
and says he can program Flash. When challenged what these technologies are,
Ringmaster retreats and refuses to name them, knowing it is just a lie.

If you read just a few of Ringmaster's posts you'll quickly
discover Ringmaster loves to lie. That is his real passion.
In fact you would be hard pressed to read any Ringmaster
post that was over stuffed with his lies.

Ringmaster has told some whoppers too. Like he insists he's
very handsome. Again, any picture to back that claim up is never offered.
Ringmaster says he has goo all over his shorts. Another tall
tale Ringmaster loves to throw out like him claiming to be
rich and successful. Depending on how demented Ringmaster is
when posting he'll tell you he is a masturbator guy actively shooting off
his mouth, to being hands-off and retired, to being semi-retired or being in
the process of selling his business or some other tall tale. Ringmaster
claims to drive a Prius. He can't drive because he lives in an
institution.

Ringmaster is most obvious the liar when he tries to pretend
he's an authority on everything. Ringmaster forgets he
once told this newsgroup he had to call Microsoft's help line which he
refers to has his private consultants before he could get Vista to run on
his system. In spite of this admission Ringmaster is
clueless, he's usually the first to accuse others of not knowing how to
install or run Vista when it was HE that couldn't get the job done by
himself.

Ringmaster is quite the little crybaby. He's among the first
to curse, yell and bitch and he's always shaking his finger at others if
they put known troublemakers in their place, however Ringmaster
has given himself absolute authority and dominion over everyone
posting to this newsgroup. Ringmaster has actually said he
can yell, curse and scream all he wants, because he has a right to. Maybe
Ringmaster hears voices in his head. When pressed Ringmaster shits his
pants.

Ringmaster obviously is way short of a full deck. The mental
picture most get of Ringmaster is some old fool beet red in
the face, pounding his fist on his desk as he curses somebody out.
Ringmaster not being very creative always uses the same
insults even though he's never met any of us personally. So if Ringmaster
attacks you, you are automatically a fanboy, a ****tard, or an
idiot.

So what you should take away from this little post is Ringmaster
is mentally unstable, a known deranged pervert, a proven Sheep
****er and just the biggest Putz on Usenet you'll probably ever come across.


"Ringmaster" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:02:14 -0400, "Hobbes" <>
> wrote:
>
>
>>For overall ease of use, performance, hardware capability ... Vista.
>>
>>For free ... ubuntu ... it's free for a reason.
>>Malware usually is free : )

>
> Typical fanboy comment. You twits simply can't be objective. One
> reason I LOVE to make fun of you clods. It's so easy. Is Ubuntu the
> right choice for everyone? Hell no! Neither is Vista. That's the point
> that sails far over the heads of the Microsoft faithful.
>
> It is really a matter of degree. Judging by the simplistic bunch that
> hang out here Ubuntu is clearly a good alternative if all you are
> doing is surfing the web, email, some rudimentary tasks. Clearly Vista
> can do that too. Which is after all the point. Why spends hundreds of
> dollars for Vista if Ubuntu can fill your needs?
>
> For the rest of us stuck with Vista my main gripe is you rather than
> getting the promised WOW, your first impression is blah. Aero, for all
> the hype Microsoft gave it is a huge disappointment. Just eye candy
> fluff. Poke below the surface and you can't even tweak it in any
> useful way. If you try, you're stuck falling back to Classic themes
> which don't support Vista.
>
> Yes, Vista's Search abilities have been improved, once you understand
> how to use them, but again Microsoft fell flat on their face in the
> implementation... a common theme often repeated.
>
> What should be rock solid in a operating system around for over twenty
> years, the all important shell, still sucks and often will give you
> the moronic Explorer encountered a problem and needs to close message.
> File copying for many is painfully slow compared to XP. IE7 is bug
> riddled and still falls easy prey to hackers and script kiddies.
>
> What should be Microsoft strength, how it handles multimedia is awful.
> The included Media Player often sputters, stalls, refuses to play
> industry standard file types. Burning a CD or DVD can causes playback
> issues on earlier versions of Windows. Images imported from cameras
> can end up getting corrupted. The still crude Disk Management and
> Defragmenter tools are at least ten years beyond third party
> alternatives. The included Paint, a mere toy incapable of doing
> anything beyond the most basic tasks.
>
> Windows Explorer may still refuse to remember how you told it to sort
> files. Windows resize and reset their location on your desktop. You
> icons placed on your desktop can get totally rearranged if you change
> resolution or suffer certain types of system crashes.
>
> I could go on, but I already made my point. Vista isn't polished. Many
> would say it still behaves like a Beta. UAC is an insult to your
> intelligence and most quickly turn it off.
>
> The bottom line is Ubuntu is a labor of love. Just a bunch of people
> working together to offer something that performs quite well and is
> offered free. Vista was produced by the world's largest software
> developer that supposedly has some of the best talent on the planet.
> They demand hundreds of dollars per copy, refuse to listen to customer
> suggestions on how to improve it, won't supply help unless you pay for
> it and expect their customers to act as unpaid beta testers and never
> have been able to release a stable version of Windows until after at
> least one Service Pack has patched it's many flaws.
>
> Anyone OBJECTIVELY looking at Vista at best gives it a mediocre
> rating. Anyone ranking it higher simply doesn't have a clue what
> they're talking about.
>



 
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