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Re: [News] Pondering a Migration to Linux After 10 Days with Vista 'Ultimate'?

On 2006-12-13, Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted something concerning:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:21:40 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>>| Overall Windows Vista is most definitely a strong effort by 
>>| Microsoft to replace Windows XP. Unfortunately thanks to many of
>>| the problems I ran into over the last 10 days I can't recommend
>>| it for anyone but early adopters or those who don't mind finding
>>| work-arounds for these types of problems. Ultimately Windows
>>| Vista does remind me of the ill-fated Windows Millennium
>>| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Almost all of his problems can be attributed to hardware drivers.  His
> mouse cursor problem, likely a video driver problem.  His suspend problem,
> likely needs a bios update.  The only (perhaps) legitimate gripe about the
> OS itself is his experience with force terminating Windows Explorer, but
> then i've not seen that problem.  Sounds like it may have been related to
> some of the other driver related problems he was experiencing.

Apology accepted.

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designed to be *used* and Windows is designed to be *sold*.

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