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Re: [LUG] Im moving back to windows

 

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> The same goes for software apps to a degree however we must remember here that 
> MS has encouraged bad software design for a long time and poisened standards 
> to ensure its difficult to move away from them. One of the reasons I gave up 
> working in IT was because there were so many MS trained (via bribed 
> universities) script kiddies with first class honours degrees in computing 
> that couldn't debug a simple bit of code or write anything slightly generic 
> that I got bored with wiping their coding bottoms. These people were never 
> going to be Software Engineers let along architects - it was always 'wait 
> till the next SP or Windows OS release comes' out rather than so a simple fix 
> for the MS created problem in the first place.
> Tom te tom te tom
> 
> 

I think you make a valid argument here and its backed up by a real world
example.

I have to say that instaling the nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 8.10 was
pretty easy, and enabling / disabling them can be done in a few clicks,

My Jaunty box however is runing an MX 420 card, and is stuck at 640x480,
so I have enabled panning, if I then connect using remote desktop it
actually displays the whole desktop on the other screen so there is no
panning (move mouse over screen border to display more desktop) involved.

I tried to install a geforce 5200 the other day on my current 8.10 box,
and had a few issues, but at no point was a dropped to a command line.
I need to have another look at it.

Paul


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