No offense bud,
But i've gotta say your full of shit. I'm no MS apologist, i run linux on my desktop, my wife desktop, my laptop is duel boot vista ulimate and linux, and the kids laptop is vista ultimate.
Lets focus on my laptop.
It has a 4200 rpm hard drive of 100 gigs.
celeron duel core 1.6ghz.
2 gigs of ram.
not an amazing machine? Oh and its got an onboard intel graphics chipset, with shared video ram.
I run vista ultimate, with aero, with no slow downs. In fact, I can run 2 eve clients with minimal graphics lag with my craptastic video card. Vista has never seemed "slow." Do i like vista? no, not really. UAC is annoying as hell. My install got flagged as unauthorized untill i installed WGA tools. I very much dislike vista, but it does run well. The only reason i have it installed on this machine is to sync my un-jailbroken ipod touch ( waitin to see what feb sdk brings, i just bought it ) and because my graphics chipset can't handle the eve client under linux, yet it can handle 2x eve clients under vista. Vista is annoying. It prompts a lot. Is it horribly slow? no.. not at all. After boot my computer idles at about 30% memory usage with 2 gigs. ZOMG bloat. oh wait its called pre-caching, i load an app and the memory usage goes up by 1%....
Vista sucks. But its not insanely slow on modern (cheap) hardware.
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Not really.
:)
I also duel boot windows / linux, and ran into the following errors tryin to set it up with TC
You can't encrypt the whole drive if you have more than 1 OS on 1 drive (not partition)
You can encrypt only your windows partition, but ONLY if you are using the windows boot manager in your MBR, and move grub to your linux partition.
If you have 2 drives, 1 for windows and 1 for linux, you should be home free.
Guess i'll stick to encrypted volumes
No offense bud, But i've gotta say your full of shit. I'm no MS apologist, i run linux on my desktop, my wife desktop, my laptop is duel boot vista ulimate and linux, and the kids laptop is vista ultimate. Lets focus on my laptop. It has a 4200 rpm hard drive of 100 gigs. celeron duel core 1.6ghz. 2 gigs of ram. not an amazing machine? Oh and its got an onboard intel graphics chipset, with shared video ram. I run vista ultimate, with aero, with no slow downs. In fact, I can run 2 eve clients with minimal graphics lag with my craptastic video card. Vista has never seemed "slow." Do i like vista? no, not really. UAC is annoying as hell. My install got flagged as unauthorized untill i installed WGA tools. I very much dislike vista, but it does run well. The only reason i have it installed on this machine is to sync my un-jailbroken ipod touch ( waitin to see what feb sdk brings, i just bought it ) and because my graphics chipset can't handle the eve client under linux, yet it can handle 2x eve clients under vista. Vista is annoying. It prompts a lot. Is it horribly slow? no.. not at all. After boot my computer idles at about 30% memory usage with 2 gigs. ZOMG bloat. oh wait its called pre-caching, i load an app and the memory usage goes up by 1%. ...
Vista sucks. But its not insanely slow on modern (cheap) hardware.