Vista? Options

[Maccabee]

What do you think of it?

vs xp who wins?

Im not worried about speed so I like vista. WHich I never thought Id say.
As my new vista computer gets old and slow I might put xp on it to speed it up.

Thoughts?

What are you running?

Vista? Xp? OS X?

Thoughts?

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Linux is better.

But out of Windows, I'd say Vista.

[Maccabee]

Linux is better.

But out of Windows, I'd say Vista.

What is Linux! I constantly hear about it but dont know what it is!
I know its an operating system but i have never seen or used it! And i dont know what is different about it? and how to get it!

[heyo-captain-jac...]

What is Linux! I constantly hear about it but dont know what it is!
I know its an operating system but i have never seen or used it! And i dont know what is different about it? and how to get it!

http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/showthread.php?t=434787

http://www.linux.com/

http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/showthread.php?t=626185

There's other distributions, my favorites are Mandriva, Ubuntu, and Kubuntu.

Also, wall of text:

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Linux Pros:

* You can leave you're computer on for like a year and it'll still be just as responsive as when you first booted it.
* Looks prettier than vista whilst using massively less resources to provide the same kind of effects.
* Pretty much all software for linux is free.
* Linux itself is free.
* When I installed linux on my laptop I didn't need to locate a single driver for any piece of hardware everything was configured for me automatically.
* Linux is a piece of piss to get all your drivers and software updated. It's literally just a one click process to update all your software and drivers to the latest versions.
* Background processes don't rape your resources at all. I get much better battery life on Linux, as 99% of the time the CPU is at 0%
* I downloaded a 1Kb bash script which auto-locks the desktop if my mobile phone moves more than 10 feet from the PC, and unlocks it again automatically when I return, which I think is awesome for some reason.
* No viruses.
* Super secure and unf*ckupable once configured. I installed Ubuntu on my grans computer after she managed to get over two dozen viruses/spyware apps installed on the machine under XP.


Linux Cons:

* Filesystem will be pretty alien to people used to MS-DOS/NT based filesystems.
* Games don't run quite as well under Wine as they do under windows.
* Some commands require the user to muck about with command lines/console, which may seem intimidating to novice users.


These are pretty specific to Ubuntu/Kubuntu, as that's the distribution I currently have installed.





Windows Pros:

* Windows media center. I absolutely love this feature of vista and it's probably the only reason why I haven't upgraded my gaming PC back to XP. If linux's MediaPortal ever gets as good as Media Center I'll die a happy man.
* DirectX. Microsoft have admittedly done an excellent job of persuading developers to use their game development platform. This means that windows has a MASSIVE catalog of games developed for it. If OpenGL ever catches back up with DX in terms of features & ease of use for developers we'll hopefully see much more cross-platform gaming. Until then, windows is really the only choice when it comes to an OS for a gaming rig.


Windows Cons:

* Have to re-format every few months, as after a while windows slows to a crawl and takes an age to respond to anything you tell it to do.
* Vista's fancy effects require some pretty meaty specs to be run correctly.
* You Have to pay for windows.
* Every piece of software updates differently, if you wanted to update every bit of software on your machine to the latest versions it's take ages.
* Background processes rape your resources constantly. Want to install a new printer? sure, but lets install fifteen background processes while we're at it. Want to install a PDF viewer? sure, but lets force you to install a background process and yet another system tray icon as well.
* Viruses are pretty much exclusively developed for windows, so obviously windows has a greater virus/spyware risk.


These pretty much apply equally to all windows versions (with the exception of 2000, which I reckon was the most stable, secure Windows version of recent years.)

Codebox'd because it's probably tl;dr for most people.

[Maccabee]

http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/showthread.php?t=434787

http://www.linux.com/

http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/showthread.php?t=626185

There's other distributions, my favorites are Mandriva, Ubuntu, and Kubuntu.

Also, wall of text:

CODE

Linux Pros:

* You can leave you're computer on for like a year and it'll still be just as responsive as when you first booted it.
* Looks prettier than vista whilst using massively less resources to provide the same kind of effects.
* Pretty much all software for linux is free.
* Linux itself is free.
* When I installed linux on my laptop I didn't need to locate a single driver for any piece of hardware everything was configured for me automatically.
* Linux is a piece of piss to get all your drivers and software updated. It's literally just a one click process to update all your software and drivers to the latest versions.
* Background processes don't rape your resources at all. I get much better battery life on Linux, as 99% of the time the CPU is at 0%
* I downloaded a 1Kb bash script which auto-locks the desktop if my mobile phone moves more than 10 feet from the PC, and unlocks it again automatically when I return, which I think is awesome for some reason.
* No viruses.
* Super secure and unf*ckupable once configured. I installed Ubuntu on my grans computer after she managed to get over two dozen viruses/spyware apps installed on the machine under XP.
Linux Cons:

* Filesystem will be pretty alien to people used to MS-DOS/NT based filesystems.
* Games don't run quite as well under Wine as they do under windows.
* Some commands require the user to muck about with command lines/console, which may seem intimidating to novice users.
These are pretty specific to Ubuntu/Kubuntu, as that's the distribution I currently have installed.
Windows Pros:

* Windows media center. I absolutely love this feature of vista and it's probably the only reason why I haven't upgraded my gaming PC back to XP. If linux's MediaPortal ever gets as good as Media Center I'll die a happy man.
* DirectX. Microsoft have admittedly done an excellent job of persuading developers to use their game development platform. This means that windows has a MASSIVE catalog of games developed for it. If OpenGL ever catches back up with DX in terms of features & ease of use for developers we'll hopefully see much more cross-platform gaming. Until then, windows is really the only choice when it comes to an OS for a gaming rig.
Windows Cons:

* Have to re-format every few months, as after a while windows slows to a crawl and takes an age to respond to anything you tell it to do.
* Vista's fancy effects require some pretty meaty specs to be run correctly.
* You Have to pay for windows.
* Every piece of software updates differently, if you wanted to update every bit of software on your machine to the latest versions it's take ages.
* Background processes rape your resources constantly. Want to install a new printer? sure, but lets install fifteen background processes while we're at it. Want to install a PDF viewer? sure, but lets force you to install a background process and yet another system tray icon as well.
* Viruses are pretty much exclusively developed for windows, so obviously windows has a greater virus/spyware risk.
These pretty much apply equally to all windows versions (with the exception of 2000, which I reckon was the most stable, secure Windows version of recent years.)

Codebox'd because it's probably tl;dr for most people.

Cool. Maybe ill do that thing where you run two processing system things on the same cp to test it out!
Does it run on more less ram and memory stuff than xp?