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Vista is Slower, But XP Is Still Dying
An anonymous reader writes "Though the Redmond software giant may be extending the lifetime of XP on low-end laptops, the end is nigh for the aging OS. That extension makes perfect sense, as recent studies have shown XP is far faster than Vista across a number of platforms. Still, Microsoft is 'sticking to its guns' when it comes to drop-dates for most other uses of the XP operating system. 'There are several dates that apply, but the one you're probably thinking of is the June 30 deadline that Dix referred to. That's the last day when large computer makers -- the Dells, HPs and Lenovos of the world -- will be allowed to preinstall Windows XP on new PCs. It also marks the official end of XP as a retail product.'"
Thanks for completely ripping me off, asshole. Probably why you posted as an Anonymous Coward.
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
What is your point? The last LTS release is still going to be supported for years to come. As will the next LTS release.
Upgrading Ubuntu isn't like upgrading windows. It's like upgrading windows, and your office suite, and your productivity tools, and your games, and every other little thing on your system.
Which is one of the best parts of using Ubuntu. You don't have 20 little applets running all the time, phoning home with who knows what personal data, nagging you to register or upgrade or screwing with your default file associations.
Windows feels like a wrestling ring, with representatives from a dozen different companies duking it out, creating drama and looking for attention with anti-virus and anti-rootkit and anti-spyware programs acting like assistant referees and slowing everything to a crawl.
Sometimes using open source software can be frustrating. But after growing accustomed to using it, running windows is like trying to get work done in a daycare full of children with attention deficit disorder.
I'm sorry, but if my artist/designer girlfriend, my 7 year old daughter and my 7 year old niece find it easier to use than Windows, and you can't figure it out, well, either you didn't try, or you're fucking retarded.
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OpenOffice.org's productivity suite.
A test that ignores ALL of Vista's performance tools, options, smartfetch break in, and they runs benchmarks based on 'legacy' components of an Open Source project.
Is everything really this stupid now?
It is bad enough that some of the features Open Office taps into are considered legacy, and only availble in Vista for compatibilty, and have horrible performance in Vista when using these tools in this benchmark senerio, but to use a fresh install, with no optimization, and even turning off features in Vista that are designed to speed it up?
WTF are these people trying to prove or smoking.... Go to any freaking gaming site and look up games like Oblivion that run 20% faster on Vista, or other games that run equal to XP or 5% faster in recent benchmarks.
If a freaking game on the Vista WDDM model can outperform freaking XP, then a fucking wordprocessor is NOT GOING TO BE SLOWER ON VISTA, unless you are retarded and use retarded testing.
I wish our freaking tech labs wasn't private, so I could show our benchmarks that discredit crap like this to the point of being ridiculous. But hey, our company only advises EDS, NASA, and other little 'companies'...
Slashdot, how much shit will you support being made up to support a point that isn't even 'furthering' FOSS. You and your readers spend more time tearing down MS than building up any OSS project. WTF is wrong with you, don't you realize this makes MS automatically win, as you are obsessed with them?
I have virtually no faith left in this site or crap that gets to the front page.