Vista Released IN 30mins!!!!!
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Can i have a copy? Will send £5.
Same ere, will probly get Ultimate, or go back to SuSE (I like win32 programs though
Wine/Cedege/Crossover Office/Win4lin/vmware as appropriate.
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But for gaming... they all suck really, especially with the power of my computer - VMWare seems to hold it back
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KILL THE DEVIL WORSHIPER!!!!
Anyone know how to get mir to run under wine, or is it ok under vmware workstation?
I sincerely apologise to dataforce and all other linux users out there.
It does not suck, it is good.
It does not suck, it is good.
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Apology Accepted, SO Who's gettin vista, looks awesome eh! better than that ubuntu rubbish! (please dont kill me, im only small)
Nah - Linux is good, shame about the lack of commercial acceptance
[edit] ooooo that was post 100
Nah - Linux is good, shame about the lack of commercial acceptance
[edit] ooooo that was post 100
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I am definitely getting Vista Ultimate 64bit, but not right away, i'll wait for everything to be working correctly, drivers, games etc.
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jesus blam, you get out of one warning, and walk right into another... :P
mir works fine under vmware i believe, else i've read in the past about wine support being ok, and wine has developed much sinse then - its even able to run HL2/Eve/WoW etc these days - mir should be no problem
mir works fine under vmware i believe, else i've read in the past about wine support being ok, and wine has developed much sinse then - its even able to run HL2/Eve/WoW etc these days - mir should be no problem
yeah but can it run WoW on one monitor, and MSN / Firefox on the other with windows media center TV playing at the same tiem with like 80FPS on WoW?
The latest version of Ubuntu is hot.
But until Linux get's compatability with NTFS harddrives, it will remain, entirely horse manure, I have over 100gigs of media on a harddrive which I'm simply not prepared to format, and to only be allowed Read-Only access to it, is absolutely appalling. Also.. I could not get a single game to work at a decent standard with absolutely any emulator, I mean for ****s sake, it runs WoW with god damned GNOME GUI, I mean, what the hell is that all about? Also, not a single Instant Messanging company supports Linux, aMSN, kMSN, etc. etc. fail in comparison to Windows Live Messenger 8.1 BETA with LOADS more errors and that's a beta for gods sake. Just because an OS is incompatible with Spy/Ad/Mal/Gayware doesn't mean it's superior, Linux should remain for networking only until it get's decent support from decent companies.
As for Windows Vista, I thought I'd check it out in currys today before I torrented it.. needs 512MB of RAM to run, not 2GB, so.. that's wrong and also it costs £99 not £250 or whatever the hell you said. But it does take up 15gigs of harddrive space, which is awful considering my OS/Software harddrive is only 32GB. But, the GUI is absolutely BEAUTIFUL and as long as compatability with old software remains intact, I'm pretty sure it's the best OS to date.
But until Linux get's compatability with NTFS harddrives, it will remain, entirely horse manure, I have over 100gigs of media on a harddrive which I'm simply not prepared to format, and to only be allowed Read-Only access to it, is absolutely appalling. Also.. I could not get a single game to work at a decent standard with absolutely any emulator, I mean for ****s sake, it runs WoW with god damned GNOME GUI, I mean, what the hell is that all about? Also, not a single Instant Messanging company supports Linux, aMSN, kMSN, etc. etc. fail in comparison to Windows Live Messenger 8.1 BETA with LOADS more errors and that's a beta for gods sake. Just because an OS is incompatible with Spy/Ad/Mal/Gayware doesn't mean it's superior, Linux should remain for networking only until it get's decent support from decent companies.
As for Windows Vista, I thought I'd check it out in currys today before I torrented it.. needs 512MB of RAM to run, not 2GB, so.. that's wrong and also it costs £99 not £250 or whatever the hell you said. But it does take up 15gigs of harddrive space, which is awful considering my OS/Software harddrive is only 32GB. But, the GUI is absolutely BEAUTIFUL and as long as compatability with old software remains intact, I'm pretty sure it's the best OS to date.
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Well no, cos Windows Media Center is windwos only. it can run MythTV tho instead :P
Indeed
"sudo apt-get install ntfs-config" fixes that. NTFS-3G fixes ntfs write access. I'm using it right now to access all my drives.
I havn't tried WoW, but cedega is aparently meant to work quite well these days
But really, what does an msn client need todo apart from send/recieve messages and possibly files/webcam ?
If your that puhsed, wine probably runs live messenger.
It has decent support
Thats their minumum specs, in realtiy it consumes more than that
Which eddition is that? Home basic Upgrade? (Which DOESN'T have the fancy GUI, and required a pre-installed system to upgrade. No more fresh installs using your upgrade CD only, you need to instal XP, then install vista.)
Prices from currys.co.uk:
- Home Basic Upgrade - £99.99
- Home Basic - £179.99
- Home Premium Upgrade - £149.99
- Home Premium - £219.99
- Business Upgrade - £189.99
- Business - £289.99
- Ultimate Upgrade - £249.99
- Ultimate - £369.99
Do you really think Vista is worth these prices?
Not forgetting that short of getting ultimate your getting a crippled OS at the end of the day.
Thats just f**king appauling, really
Ubuntu+Beryl gives you the ability to have the Same style GUI.
I can forsee it being as compatible with older stuff as XP was.
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Like sean said, why the hell would you buy retail vista? especially from curry's i mean what the hell dude.
You can get Vista Ultimate 64bit for as little as £125
You can get Vista Ultimate 64bit for as little as £125
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