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Re: Vista vs XP [Re: Oatman2000]
    #7711797 - 12/03/07 04:48 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)


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Re: Vista vs XP [Re: Ythan]
    #7711882 - 12/03/07 05:02 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Damn if only!
But who has that much money to spend on that?

I'm waiting for someone to come out with a Virtual Reality version - like maybe a headset.
That and some shrooms would rock!

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Re: Vista vs XP [Re: Sell Your Soul]
    #7712240 - 12/03/07 06:12 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

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andyistic said:
Damn if only!
But who has that much money to spend on that?





:lol:




I'm about to have another try installing XP back on my laptop.  I don't "hate" vista, but it doesn't feel like the machine it should be

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Re: Vista vs XP [Re: Boom]
    #7712361 - 12/03/07 06:43 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

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Boom said:
I'm about to have another try installing XP back on my laptop.  I don't "hate" vista, but it doesn't feel like the machine it should be




Best of luck to you.  :sun:

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Re: Vista vs XP [Re: Sell Your Soul]
    #7712514 - 12/03/07 07:25 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

So it's taken me about a week and a half... 4 or 5 complete reinstalls.. a bunch of blue screens of death..and about 100 drivers later.. and I finally have XP running, updated, and all tweaked out. I have to say... the performance I'm getting out of XP compared to Vista is about three times better, literally.

Vista can go suck it. Maybe in 2 years when they have it running somewhat decently I'll think about switching, but for me now XP is the shit.

PS - Finding XP drivers for my new toshiba was three and a half pains in the asses :crankey:


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Re: Vista vs XP [Re: Ythan]
    #7712816 - 12/03/07 08:46 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

:lol: "it's a big-ass table."

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Re: Vista vs XP [Re: maggotz]
    #7713354 - 12/03/07 10:39 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

I have Vista Ultimate 64bit right now, works fine... Before that I had Win XP Pro 64bit.

I have 2 gigs of ram, 250 gig hd, intel 2 duo 2.4 gighertz, evga 8800 gts 640mb. Gonna get 6 more gigs of ram, 3 250 gig hds for raid, and another 8800 gta 640mb. Rock out with 1.28 gigs of vid memory. Chyea bitches.


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Re: Vista vs XP [Re: downforpot]
    #7713387 - 12/03/07 10:45 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

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I have Vista Ultimate 64bit right now, works fine... Before that I had Win XP Pro 64bit.

I have 2 gigs of ram, 250 gig hd, intel 2 duo 2.4 gighertz, evga 8800 gts 640mb. Gonna get 6 more gigs of ram, 3 250 gig hds for raid, and another 8800 gta 640mb. Rock out with 1.28 gigs of vid memory. Chyea bitches.




Do you have an SLI motherboard?
My motherboard is for Crossfire, but I'm not a big fan of ATI.

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Re: Vista vs XP [Re: Shroomism]
    #7713912 - 12/04/07 03:13 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

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So it's taken me about a week and a half... 4 or 5 complete reinstalls.. a bunch of blue screens of death..and about 100 drivers later.. and I finally have XP running, updated, and all tweaked out.




On the plus side, you learned a lot about your system from the experience. When XP breaks (which is always does), you will be much better positioned to figure out what is wrong and fix it.

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I have to say... the performance I'm getting out of XP compared to Vista is about three times better, literally.




Yep... and Linux is faster yet, though there is less software available. Vista has to check your hardware some 30+ times a second to ensure that you aren't doing anything bad, as defined by the recording industry.


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Re: Vista vs XP [Re: Seuss]
    #7714120 - 12/04/07 06:58 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

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Vista has to check your hardware some 30+ times a second to ensure that you aren't doing anything bad, as defined by the recording industry.




i didn't know that. good thing i no longer have it installed. :wink:



hey man, what linux version are you using? i want to try another linux distro to be my definitive one. i've only tried ubuntu and kubuntu but i was thinking of trying linux mint and maybe pc linux os. what do you think about those?

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Re: Vista vs XP [Re: maggotz]
    #7714268 - 12/04/07 08:12 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Yea the new Ubuntu version is honestly kind of buggy. Ive been less then impressed by it. Im thinking of installing a different distro and waiting until the ubuntu 8 comes out in a year or so. So we are in the same boat, and this is what Im thinking

Suse sounds reasonable as it uses the fedora .rpm package system which is nice, also its KDE looks really good especially with version 4

Gentoo, I was thinking it might be time to finally try out Gentoo as I think I have enough linux experience to deal with it, but Im not sure if I want to bother

Besides those two I was considering Fedora, which Ive used plenty, seemed like a reasonable distribution.
I guess those are really the only 3 that Ive been considering.

By the way has anyone here tried out the Window manager Enlightenment? Im running it on my ubuntu at the moment, its quite strange and a bit hard to use at first. Im not sure I dig it, but its certainly a difference from Gnome and KDE. I run the latest e17-cvs files so it can be a bit buggy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_%28window_manager%29

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Re: Vista vs XP [Re: TheCow]
    #7714291 - 12/04/07 08:22 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

yeah, i installed ubuntu gutsy, after having fesity for a couple of months, and it wasn't what i expected. configuring it wasn't as smooth as it had been with feisty. so i installed, kubuntu gutsy and it went smooth.

but i'm new to the linux world so i need stuff for newbies.

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Re: Vista vs XP [Re: maggotz]
    #7714641 - 12/04/07 10:14 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

I use pclinuxos at the moment and im liking it, more so than ubuntu actually...

peace

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Re: Vista vs XP [Re: Sell Your Soul]
    #7716838 - 12/04/07 06:44 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

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Quote:

downforpot said:
I have Vista Ultimate 64bit right now, works fine... Before that I had Win XP Pro 64bit.

I have 2 gigs of ram, 250 gig hd, intel 2 duo 2.4 gighertz, evga 8800 gts 640mb. Gonna get 6 more gigs of ram, 3 250 gig hds for raid, and another 8800 gta 640mb. Rock out with 1.28 gigs of vid memory. Chyea bitches.




Do you have an SLI motherboard?
My motherboard is for Crossfire, but I'm not a big fan of ATI.




Of course, I wouldn't be able to get another vid card if it wasn't.


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Re: Vista vs XP [Re: downforpot]
    #9006548 - 09/30/08 02:47 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

I just upgraded from Ubuntu's Gutsy to Hardy and decided to try out KDE recently.
So far KDE seems to be more elegant and advanced than Gnome, but it's taking some time to get use to it.

Fortunately, we're allowed to use either-or within the Unix environment - and switch anytime we want!  Without losing access to either our preferred programs or our documents.  That's the beauty of Unix/Linux IMO.

Edited by Hoggy (09/30/08 02:49 AM)

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Re: Vista vs XP [Re: Hoggy]
    #9006597 - 09/30/08 03:27 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Yeah, I run stock KDE 3.5 and I prefer it to Gnome.

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Re: Vista vs XP [Re: lIllIIIllIlIIlIlIIllIllIIl]
    #9009792 - 09/30/08 06:17 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

I'm also using kde, ive used gnome, xfce, and kde, out of them, I like kde for most applications, and xfce for my old laptop, but it doesn't work anymore...ive also tried fluxbox and thought it was pretty cool, if your a minimal type person, its great...its also funny to see people come up to your comp and have no idea how to use it, since it is just a blank screen...lol

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