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Re: [LUG] vista cost you two hours a week

 

On Thursday 20 November 2008 13:40, aashish kumar wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 18:35, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Tom Potts wrote:
> > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/20/windows_vista_overtime/
> > >
> > > Costs me more than that* and I haven't even installed it!
> > > Tom te tom te tom
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *in laughing at its failures and bitching ...
> >
> > How does a modern PC with vista end up taking as long as 15 minutes to
> > be ready to use from switch on and then 15 mins to switch off,  perhaps
> > they are not using vista hardware,  or perhaps they bought vista ready
> > PC's upgraded to vista only to find the actual specs needed for vista
> > were higher than they have,
> >
> > If people go out and buy Windows 7 after this sort of farce, they need
> > their heads looked at.
> >
> > on the subject of Windows  7
> >
> > http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/10/28/windows_seven_review/
> >
> > transparent windows,  hmm, i have that on my Debian desktop here running
> > KDE, have had this for years, and before vista was even released,
> > looking at the specs its still pretty high just for an operating system,
> > designed to interface a user with applications,  eh
> >
> > Also its faster,  then they mention that features have been removed for
> > the preview relase, this means once they are back in the software will
> > be back to good ol bloatware that windows is, and always will be.
> >
> >
> > Paul
>
> I would like to mention here the case of Mac OSX (Tiger and Leopard) they
> both too have awesome graphics capabilities with low hardware requirements
> (by the way everybody knows that Vista is copied from OSX) but yeah KDE is
Vista is based on Unix????????????????????????
> much better.
>
> Aashish


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