you got it right, i have been using linux for almost a year now, had 2 crashes in 10 months! my winXP used to crash once every week, i didnt need drivers for anything, neither my sound card nor my lan card, nothing! i use windows only in gaming, and last week i discovered how easier it is to write math formulas in openoffice from writing them in the overbloated M$ office, and my whole linux system is barely 5 gb, whereas XP with office and few other applications is taking 12 gb! all-in-all my experience with linux has been and is still being great, no matter what!
now that you mentioned how laughable windows is on supercomputers, it is even laughable on desktop, there is simply no proper resource management! after upgrading to 2 gb of ram, i still got annoyed with swapping, so i checked task manager just t find out that there is almost 1 gb of ram available and 500 mb in pagefile!
im using linux now, (kubuntu), and found out i dont need the 2 gigs so sold out 1 gig and my PC is happy!
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I think if you read this http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html/ you would know why vista suck
you got it right, i have been using linux for almost a year now, had 2 crashes in 10 months! my winXP used to crash once every week, i didnt need drivers for anything, neither my sound card nor my lan card, nothing! i use windows only in gaming, and last week i discovered how easier it is to write math formulas in openoffice from writing them in the overbloated M$ office, and my whole linux system is barely 5 gb, whereas XP with office and few other applications is taking 12 gb! all-in-all my experience with linux has been and is still being great, no matter what!
now that you mentioned how laughable windows is on supercomputers, it is even laughable on desktop, there is simply no proper resource management! after upgrading to 2 gb of ram, i still got annoyed with swapping, so i checked task manager just t find out that there is almost 1 gb of ram available and 500 mb in pagefile! im using linux now, (kubuntu), and found out i dont need the 2 gigs so sold out 1 gig and my PC is happy!
Well , why would you have to open a new window? use thunderbird, the best email client available, outlook sucks