Thread: windows

Never truer words spoken - actually written!!

Merry Christmas mate>

Have you got XP? If so, be glad, because Vista is worse. It would tell me I didn't have permission to do things on my own flipping confuser

Vote with your feet.

Seriously - [without getting into the usual of mine is bigger/better than yours] have a look at what a Mac has to offer.

Go to the store and have a play.

Talk to those who have them.

You may be pleasantly surprised.

Originally Posted by Bob38S

Vote with your feet.

Seriously - [without getting into the usual of mine is bigger/better than yours] have a look at what a Mac has to offer.
You may be pleasantly surprised.

That's true.
I've had a Mac Mini for sometime but it got very little use other than running an astronomy package.
After the death of my main system (Linux based), I needed to get my Internet fix while waiting for spare parts (video board) so I started to use the Mac more.
If all you're interested in is browsing and email, it's a no brainer. There are also a lot of software packages available for the Mac, not something that is always true for Linux
Now the Linux system is back on the air, I'm still using the Mac for playing videos and for organising photos.

I don't run any Microsoft operating system as Linux (or the Mac) looks after anything I want to do.

Keep complaining! Winders 7 is only worse.

weisyboy, as Bob38S & snowyskiesau said, try a Mac. Even better try a flavour of Linux. You can run linux on the same box that you have Windows on, flipping between the two until you've gained confidence with the new OS.

Google Linux Mint or PCLinuxos.com, download & burn to a standard CD. These two OSs are very very user friendly for people used to Windows.

When you have burned the iso onto the CD simply pop it into your CD/DVD player & reboot the computer. When it fires up follow the prompts & you can test run the new OS without affecting your existing Windoze instalation in any way. After your test drive, power down, remove the CD, power up & your back at Windows.
Yep, slight learning curve, same with a Mac, though nobody was born knowing all about Windows, you had to learn. If you give it a fair go, you'll never go back.

Good luck

Yep, that the gates bloatware, I will sticking with XP Pro for some time yet. But if you get really peeved off. Go check out XPLite on the net XPlite and 2000lite Uninstall Windows components.. With this you can surgically carve up XP and get it running like a sleek racing machine.

I have used it on Win98 and it was superb.I cut out IE and a whole lot of other stuff, sped up the OS amazingly.