Still too expensive even for 64 to128Gigabytes but for linux it's not bad to get 64 GB ssd, for windows 7 probably 128gb would do and just use a small hd for swap file. I would suggest to buy large HD's for storing your movies, software application ISO's, data files, etc... use NAS, or use usb external enclosure(with caution), or those removable drive bays. I use to use usb external cases but those got too hot and failed. Now using removable drive bays for storing my data, ISO's, movies. I had a whole bunch of seagates and western digitals go sour within 6 month's, a year or even 3 years. My hitachi still running for the past 8 month's. As demand increases for SSD's and manufacturing becomes cheaper the SSD will probably end up same price or even lower than HD's.
I had the same issue with office 2010 when people were sending us excel, word, ppt files in office 2003 format. Yup, some text were tabbed to the right, bullets were different sizes, lines appearing as thick double in excel, draw lines in word half in middle page while the end of the line showing up in the next page line. Word had the most issues compared to excel and powerpoint. I imported these 2003 format into libreoffice and it was not that bad compared to the office 2010, just 2 lines of text tabbed over.
Are you talking about visual studio 6.0 - 6.1? Visual c++ works so far but visual basic crashes every time I type MsgBox(. Yup it crashed at the "(". I can run Steam on wine right now in ubuntu 12.04.1 without issues but it does not run any game. I have cod4MW and of what i heard it runs fine on non-punk buster servers. I will try this today. If netflix came over to linux I would be even more happy but since they are assholes and it's running only in Chrome OS and android devices I have to run it in virtualbox which has video tearing issues. Linux is not bad. I had to install ubuntu 12.04.1 on a atom 1.3ghz netbook gma 500 with 2gbram because windows 7 was running dog slow when web browsing or watching videos. Actually the Poulsbo drivers run better on linux than the native intel gma 500 on windows 7.
Why are so many people bashing wayland? It's like when Window users were bashing Windows 7 for not being more like Widows XP, but they adopted it and not going back to the old XP. Change is good especially with technology. If ubuntu and opensuse incorporates wayland into their distro's, no biggie, there are other distro's that people can still use with X11. But, wayland will work fine in conjunction with X11 for software compatibility. This project was started by someone at Red Hat.
Man, 30 seconds between keystrokes? never had this issue with ubuntu running compiz(even at 120 cpu usage) or without it even on my old core2duo 2.4ghz. I see it running a little slow on mine at 800mhz(coolnquiet) phenom ii x6 when i'm using kaffeine(or any program dealing with graphics) for tv and browsing with firefox on the second screen. I always use the cat/proc/cpuinfo to see my cpu speed. But at 2700mhz it just flies no freezing or any stalling issues. Even with kde. Lxde and xfce have tried and are fast but not much to look at. Go and look at the compiz cpu usage or make sure to use ati and nvidia proprietary drivers because open source have performance issues.
Why is it that Open Source programmers are called hackers and every program like LibreOffice or eclipse is coded with hacks? I mean that's pretty damn insulting. I think all contributors to the Linux kernal or the open source software are professional programmers. I have used LibreOffice, eclipse, Kaffeine, vlc, bluefish, inkscape, gimp, blender, mame, mame32, dolphin emulator, pcsx, pcsx2, code::blocks, etc.. and these programs majority of the time run excellent maybe there are a few bugs here and there but no software is 100% perfect. Look at Microsoft's shitty OS buggy history.
And Microsoft has so called professional engineers and programmers with harvard degrees and yet they came up with buggy and crash prone shit like windows 3.0, windows 95, windows 98, windows Me, windows 2000, windows xp, windows vista, office 2000, office xp, office 2003, all these had major issues which i experienced at home and at work, talk about bugs. Windows xp sp3 did have horrible performance issues and also crashed when I loaded certain programs or transferred large files from drive to drive. Even with windows 7 I had to change in the bios ide compatibility mode to ahci so i would stop the damn freezing in windows 7 but with ubuntu in both ide and ahci no freezing on the same machine. And look at adobe products like photoshop which is still so damn fucking buggy and if you push it to hard it will crash.
There are tons of windows professional applications that are full of bugs and crash prone so stop bashing linux distros for being buggy or that it is written by hackers. I'm stuck with windows for now because of visual basic 6, visual studio 2010, netflix, some games and I mean cod4 modern warfare, and that's it.
Autodesk maya & 3d studio max and CAD cracked, Adobe Creative Suite 4 and 5 cracked, MS Office 2010 serial numbers and cracks, Visual Studio 2010 serial#'s and cracked, Diskeeper cracked, CorelDraw cracked, windows 7 wga removal, etc... So many windows applications hacked, cracked, and accessed by using torrent. Even games by EA, Capcom, Rockstar, Valve, etc... are cracked and able to use without issue. So if EA is scared of their software being cracked and torrented on linux or even Netflix scared that linux users might be able to save their streamed movies onto their hard drives, they are all smoking crack because it's been done already on the windows platform. Shit! people can even make iso's out of whatever dvd Netflix sends them on linux, bsd, windows. There are more than 15 million users around the world using linux including me. Call of Duty modern warfare 3 $59.99 x 15 million = $899,850,000 revenue. Well actually there are 118, 995 so far playing multiplayer so maybe around $7,020,705 in revenue. But there is a large linux market and it could increase if developers brought their products over to linux.
I had to install windows 7 32 and 64 bit with and without sp1 with full updates 3 times because my machine would freeze up for 30 - 50 seconds 10+ times a day, just to figure out the problem. No event viewer error messages or issues. No hardware issues checked myself and swapped out parts, I have the latest BIOS update as well. I had kubuntu and ubuntu installed on the second partition of the machine and i was not having any freezing so than i knew there was a driver issue. I thought maybe it was my south bridge windows drivers so I installed the amd versions and same issue. I later went into the bios and changed the storage settings from IDE compatibility to AHCI only and after reinstalling windows 7 with all the patches, sp1, than amd chipset drivers and everything is okay now. No more freezing issues in windows 7 32 and 64 bit. I meant WTF! windows 7 craps out in IDE mode and linux does not? The thing is linux like ubuntu and kubuntu it's still faster than windows when it's all configured.
Right now, MY new ubuntu 12.04.1 install can't seem to keep the resolution and refresh rate settings i set, on every boot. xorg.conf shows 1024x768 at 60hz which i set but my ati video drivers are set to 1280x1024 at 75hz and every time i changed it back to 1024x768 in ati administration mode or through terminal "sudo amdcccle" on the next log out or restart it changes it back to 1280x1024 at 75hz. I'm probably going to delete the xorg.conf and remove the fgrlx and reinstall the video drivers again if not i will have to change to xinerama mode to see if this helps, i have a dual monitor and first time i had this issue, but for me to fix things like this is pretty fun but it might not be fun for the regular joe or office people.
The other issue with ubuntu with ati, during the install i have to set it to "nomodeset" or otherwise during the install i get scrambled graphical glitches and can barely see shit, after the install i use the recovery mode to install the fglrx and no more visual issues except for the resolution thing.
I used to hate both but now I just love them. The major problem with Gnome 3 is a little slow at 800mhz(cool N quiet) six core but flies at 2700mhz but hopefully 3.6 fixes this. Unity is indeed faster than gnome 3. Both are great at accessing your files, folders, and programs quick. This is why microsoft dumped the old start button in favor of a pop up interface(metroUI) that is able to access files, folders, programs quick even when using the search. But, the good thing about linux is that if you hate unity and gnome you can always go back to the old classical gnome or just use the eye candy kde 4.8 or kde 4.9 distros. Than you have xfce,lxde, cinnamon.
Stop bitching and whining about unity and gnome ruining the desktop you have plenty of other interfaces.
Linux for the desktop is not bad after the installation. I always have to install ubuntu with the nomodeset(ati card) on or my screen during the install the screen is garbled and hard to see anything, and after the installation finishes and reboots i have to go into terminal mode and install the fglrx. With kubuntu I have to install the realtek audio drivers(make & build) and than install the alsa to get rid of the popping and horrible bass feel to the sound which plugs my ears a little bit. There are some minor issues with linux but it does run beautifully after being configured. Linux is missing professional games, netflix, and a good alternative to windows 7 media center. xbmc and mythtv a pain to configure to make the tv tuner to work. Kaffeine slow and uses to much cpu in ubuntu but runs fast with low cpu usage in kubuntu.
My windows 7 on my phenom ii x6 had constant freezing every 2 minutes(with and without sp1) when doing some heavy tasking or just watching flash or silverlight videos but with linux distros on same machine no freaking issues. My hardware checked out okay even swapped parts out except for the motherboard and cpu, and windows 7 event viewer logs reported no issues. But after 4th installation of windows 7 i get maybe only 1-2(30-60 seconds) freezes every 1 - 2 hours. I think it's the windows 7 motherboard drivers even the asrock and amd south bridge drivers gave me same issue, but again ubuntu and kubuntu installed on the same machine no issue it just ran beautifully. Well, I actually changed in the bios from ide compatible to ahci which helps, hard disk and dvd rom both sata, duh duh. Gimp(with plugins) and blender run just as good as photoshop and maya. Netbeans, code::blocks, eclipse, bluefish, are not bad development tools to use or even learn to program.
Actually, if netflix was available for linux i would just dump windows altogether for good. I have a dual monitor setup and I usually like watching netflix on one screen while playing multiplayer games(cod 4, AA3) on my other screen.
Windows 8 which i also tested for the past 2 month's is not much better than windows 7 and I could not really see any gains in performance over windows 7. Metro is basically web on your desktop without a web browser, that's it.
Never liked ID games, they all have the same boring gameplay. Wine(improve and add windows and non-windows api's) runs fine on multiple distros so why not make it a portable gaming platform to run native linux games and not just windows apps and games. Gaming on wine is not bad but for linux gaming i mostly use emulators and now xp for netflix.
Previous post did not go through, sheesh. My windows 7 is freezing right now while watching netflix or youtube on first monitor and web surfing(tried firefox, chrome, opera) on the second monitor, this happened 6 times so far. No hardware(all hardware checked out) issues especially video card which i swapped out, radeon to geforce and back. If i use linux i don't get this issue on the same hardware. I had problems like this before with xp, server 2003, and of course win7 on other amd machines. It's probably the windows standard drivers for the northbridge, sad thing asrock has only south bridge drivers no north bridge, even amd. Or there is something between microsoft and amd.
I went from opensuse to ubuntu to kubuntu 12.04 and I just love the kde 4.8. The kde taskbar is definitely better than the windows 7 when it comes to customization, adding extra taskbars, theme changing, adding widgets. Windows 7 on a dual screen is just sad I have to use ultramon to add second taskbar. The dolphin file manager looks better and has more options it's especially easy to reveal hidden files and folders in dolphin unlike windows 7 where you have to go through hoops just to turn this option on. Kde is nice when it comes to themes unlike windows 7 which you need software to do this. Visually, kde is just better.
There are pretty good apps out there for linux which i use but than there are apps on windows 7 that i need that are not on linux and wine can't run. For gaming I use emulators like pcsx2 and dolphin for both OS's and i find that the window versions are 15fps faster than the linux version with the opengl plugins. I hope steam influences game companies to develop for linux.
Actually this is a positive step towards getting more professional games onto the linux through steam for now and hopefully in the future game installers will be wrapped around by a packaging manager that will work for all linux distros. Freedom is about choices, options, not about forcing only open source software onto the linux. Linux for the Desktop runs just fine and even better than windows 7 in some areas. I have a phenom ii x6 system and windows 7 freezes when watching flash in firefox or chrome for 1 minute a few times and it goes away if i use anything than the web, i tested all my hardware and it all just fine good shape. Firefox linux is a lot faster than the windows version. But with kubuntu 12.04 it just runs flawlessly on the same hardware on the second partition, no freezes or issues. I remember I had same issue with windows server 2003 on a different amd machine few years ago. It's probably motherboard driver(using windows 7 standard) issue which I can't do anything about since the motherboard manufacturer and amd does not have the northbridge chipset drivers.
When my windows 7 is flaking out I just switch over to linux. Right now I'm relying on visual basic 6, visual studio 2010, photoshop, maya, and netflix and not so much for pc games since i'm using emulators(ps2, nes, snes, genesis, gamecube/wii, mame). I will eventually move to linux as primary OS and use win7 in virtual box.
Today's linux distros are more reliable and stable than windows xp sp3 and even windows 7 in some instances.
I ran windows 8 and nothing to brag about. It's basically 2 interfaces wrapped around the kernel. I think MetroUI(HTML5) for Microsoft was nothing more than an afterthought. They should of just released service pack 2 with usb3 support and better optimizations for AMD's newest FX processors(better hyper-threading than intel), and release the MetroUI only for the tablet. The problem with MetroUI is that it's really secondary component to the taskbar interface on the desktop, I don't want to see the taskbar desktop only MetroUI. I thought all apps would look and be based on html5/javascript and also that they would find away to wrap the MetroUI interface onto the old applications like office 2007/2010, adobe creative suits, or visual studio.net, etc....
I think, Microsoft as usual, does an half-ass job and releases whatever the hell they want without regards to customers feedback or complaints. Why do I have to go to and buy Ultramon to have a second F&*king taskbar on my second screen when Microsoft could of had easily implemented this themselves. Or be able to change the taskbar themes more easily than using a third-party program or replacing Microsoft DLL's. Almost all businesses are in too deep with Microsoft products and really need to quit cold turkey and move on to bsd or linux so that way adobe, autodesk, corel will be forced to port or develop from scratch applications for those OS's once they see Microsoft losing customers.
Doesn't GPL force closed-source commercial applications to open up their source code for anybody who request it? Isn't the GPL the major reason why no developer want's to write for linux. It seems GPL gives freedom to the user(access to code and make modifications) and Windows gives freedom to the developer(making money off of closed source not forced to open). If i owned a game developing company I wouldn't even consider developing games for the Linux, I need to pay for the company building, utilities, employee salaries, Lawyers, etc...
Even as a individual game developer I would like to make money off of my products to make a living especially during this shitty recession.
I prefer Ubuntu 12.04 over mint 12. Mint software packager is very flimsy and becomes unresponsive at times. In Ubuntu 11.10, a few times i had the desktop panels and icons disappear on my old core2duo machine. Fedora 16 kde crashed, froze, and sometimes desktop panels and icons all disappeared same as gnome in ubuntu, but at least fedora automatically installed by kworld usb tv adapter drivers. But I always went into ubuntu terminal to bring back my desktop icons and panels same with fedora. If i remember, this issue was related to compiz.
Now, on my phenom ii x6 1045t 8gb machine, windows 7 64-bit freezes when playing flash videos in firefox and chrome to running video games. I checked out my ram, motherboard, psu, video card, cpu low temperature, all check out okay. My hitachi hd 500gb might be called into question. Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit(on my somewhat busted western digital 500gb lots of bad sectors) running flash video in firefox had no freezes, slowdowns, or crashes on the same machine.
I also installed ubuntu 12.04 onto someones acer netbook(1.3ghz, 2gb ram, intel gma 500) and it runs pretty well especially when running youtube videos. Hulu is actually slow but probably do to the video drivers. Windows 7 32 bit ran hulu much better on the same machine but anti-virus slowed it down to much at some points and the machine did catch a virus which is the reason why i put ubuntu 12.04 on it.
Windows has the professional software, games, and optimized drivers. Maybe within the next 5 - 10 years wine under linux will be much better and able to run majority of windows apps.
The U.S government needs to stay the hell out of this and maybe deal with real issues in this country like the TSA, wars, 17 trillion debt, police brutality, privacy and rights going down the drain, banks defrauding this country, regulations and red tape slowly destroying small businesses.
First of all, Microsoft does not charge anybody for developing on the their previous and current operating systems, so it is a privilege to run your app on their OS. Developers need to stop crying and bitching because Microsoft likes to use their own apps over 3rd party. If you don't like Microsoft's decision how the OS(software like IE pre-installed) will be rolled out maybe you should hire or gather with other developers online and create your own operating system to compete against MS. OH wait, there is linux, there is Solaris 11, there is OS X, there is FreeBSD. STOP CRYING!!!
If Microsoft distance themselves away from 3rd party app developers, Eventually, people will move away from Microsoft's OS and to Linux or whatever is out there and surely Microsoft will implode. Let the Free Market(which is the consumer) decide.
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Still too expensive even for 64 to128Gigabytes but for linux it's not bad to get 64 GB ssd, for windows 7 probably 128gb would do and just use a small hd for swap file. I would suggest to buy large HD's for storing your movies, software application ISO's, data files, etc... use NAS, or use usb external enclosure(with caution), or those removable drive bays. I use to use usb external cases but those got too hot and failed. Now using removable drive bays for storing my data, ISO's, movies. I had a whole bunch of seagates and western digitals go sour within 6 month's, a year or even 3 years. My hitachi still running for the past 8 month's. As demand increases for SSD's and manufacturing becomes cheaper the SSD will probably end up same price or even lower than HD's.
I had the same issue with office 2010 when people were sending us excel, word, ppt files in office 2003 format. Yup, some text were tabbed to the right, bullets were different sizes, lines appearing as thick double in excel, draw lines in word half in middle page while the end of the line showing up in the next page line. Word had the most issues compared to excel and powerpoint. I imported these 2003 format into libreoffice and it was not that bad compared to the office 2010, just 2 lines of text tabbed over.
Are you talking about visual studio 6.0 - 6.1? Visual c++ works so far but visual basic crashes every time I type MsgBox(. Yup it crashed at the "(". I can run Steam on wine right now in ubuntu 12.04.1 without issues but it does not run any game. I have cod4MW and of what i heard it runs fine on non-punk buster servers. I will try this today. If netflix came over to linux I would be even more happy but since they are assholes and it's running only in Chrome OS and android devices I have to run it in virtualbox which has video tearing issues. Linux is not bad. I had to install ubuntu 12.04.1 on a atom 1.3ghz netbook gma 500 with 2gbram because windows 7 was running dog slow when web browsing or watching videos. Actually the Poulsbo drivers run better on linux than the native intel gma 500 on windows 7.
Why are so many people bashing wayland? It's like when Window users were bashing Windows 7 for not being more like Widows XP, but they adopted it and not going back to the old XP. Change is good especially with technology. If ubuntu and opensuse incorporates wayland into their distro's, no biggie, there are other distro's that people can still use with X11. But, wayland will work fine in conjunction with X11 for software compatibility. This project was started by someone at Red Hat.
Man, 30 seconds between keystrokes? never had this issue with ubuntu running compiz(even at 120 cpu usage) or without it even on my old core2duo 2.4ghz. I see it running a little slow on mine at 800mhz(coolnquiet) phenom ii x6 when i'm using kaffeine(or any program dealing with graphics) for tv and browsing with firefox on the second screen. I always use the cat /proc/cpuinfo to see my cpu speed. But at 2700mhz it just flies no freezing or any stalling issues. Even with kde. Lxde and xfce have tried and are fast but not much to look at. Go and look at the compiz cpu usage or make sure to use ati and nvidia proprietary drivers because open source have performance issues.
Why is it that Open Source programmers are called hackers and every program like LibreOffice or eclipse is coded with hacks? I mean that's pretty damn insulting. I think all contributors to the Linux kernal or the open source software are professional programmers. I have used LibreOffice, eclipse, Kaffeine, vlc, bluefish, inkscape, gimp, blender, mame, mame32, dolphin emulator, pcsx, pcsx2, code::blocks, etc.. and these programs majority of the time run excellent maybe there are a few bugs here and there but no software is 100% perfect. Look at Microsoft's shitty OS buggy history.
And Microsoft has so called professional engineers and programmers with harvard degrees and yet they came up with buggy and crash prone shit like windows 3.0, windows 95, windows 98, windows Me, windows 2000, windows xp, windows vista, office 2000, office xp, office 2003, all these had major issues which i experienced at home and at work, talk about bugs. Windows xp sp3 did have horrible performance issues and also crashed when I loaded certain programs or transferred large files from drive to drive. Even with windows 7 I had to change in the bios ide compatibility mode to ahci so i would stop the damn freezing in windows 7 but with ubuntu in both ide and ahci no freezing on the same machine. And look at adobe products like photoshop which is still so damn fucking buggy and if you push it to hard it will crash.
There are tons of windows professional applications that are full of bugs and crash prone so stop bashing linux distros for being buggy or that it is written by hackers. I'm stuck with windows for now because of visual basic 6, visual studio 2010, netflix, some games and I mean cod4 modern warfare, and that's it.
Autodesk maya & 3d studio max and CAD cracked, Adobe Creative Suite 4 and 5 cracked, MS Office 2010 serial numbers and cracks, Visual Studio 2010 serial#'s and cracked, Diskeeper cracked, CorelDraw cracked, windows 7 wga removal, etc... So many windows applications hacked, cracked, and accessed by using torrent. Even games by EA, Capcom, Rockstar, Valve, etc... are cracked and able to use without issue. So if EA is scared of their software being cracked and torrented on linux or even Netflix scared that linux users might be able to save their streamed movies onto their hard drives, they are all smoking crack because it's been done already on the windows platform. Shit! people can even make iso's out of whatever dvd Netflix sends them on linux, bsd, windows. There are more than 15 million users around the world using linux including me. Call of Duty modern warfare 3 $59.99 x 15 million = $899,850,000 revenue. Well actually there are 118, 995 so far playing multiplayer so maybe around $7,020,705 in revenue. But there is a large linux market and it could increase if developers brought their products over to linux.
I had to install windows 7 32 and 64 bit with and without sp1 with full updates 3 times because my machine would freeze up for 30 - 50 seconds 10+ times a day, just to figure out the problem. No event viewer error messages or issues. No hardware issues checked myself and swapped out parts, I have the latest BIOS update as well. I had kubuntu and ubuntu installed on the second partition of the machine and i was not having any freezing so than i knew there was a driver issue. I thought maybe it was my south bridge windows drivers so I installed the amd versions and same issue. I later went into the bios and changed the storage settings from IDE compatibility to AHCI only and after reinstalling windows 7 with all the patches, sp1, than amd chipset drivers and everything is okay now. No more freezing issues in windows 7 32 and 64 bit. I meant WTF! windows 7 craps out in IDE mode and linux does not? The thing is linux like ubuntu and kubuntu it's still faster than windows when it's all configured.
Right now, MY new ubuntu 12.04.1 install can't seem to keep the resolution and refresh rate settings i set, on every boot. xorg.conf shows 1024x768 at 60hz which i set but my ati video drivers are set to 1280x1024 at 75hz and every time i changed it back to 1024x768 in ati administration mode or through terminal "sudo amdcccle" on the next log out or restart it changes it back to 1280x1024 at 75hz. I'm probably going to delete the xorg.conf and remove the fgrlx and reinstall the video drivers again if not i will have to change to xinerama mode to see if this helps, i have a dual monitor and first time i had this issue, but for me to fix things like this is pretty fun but it might not be fun for the regular joe or office people.
The other issue with ubuntu with ati, during the install i have to set it to "nomodeset" or otherwise during the install i get scrambled graphical glitches and can barely see shit, after the install i use the recovery mode to install the fglrx and no more visual issues except for the resolution thing.
I used to hate both but now I just love them. The major problem with Gnome 3 is a little slow at 800mhz(cool N quiet) six core but flies at 2700mhz but hopefully 3.6 fixes this. Unity is indeed faster than gnome 3. Both are great at accessing your files, folders, and programs quick. This is why microsoft dumped the old start button in favor of a pop up interface(metroUI) that is able to access files, folders, programs quick even when using the search. But, the good thing about linux is that if you hate unity and gnome you can always go back to the old classical gnome or just use the eye candy kde 4.8 or kde 4.9 distros. Than you have xfce,lxde, cinnamon.
Stop bitching and whining about unity and gnome ruining the desktop you have plenty of other interfaces.
Linux for the desktop is not bad after the installation. I always have to install ubuntu with the nomodeset(ati card) on or my screen during the install the screen is garbled and hard to see anything, and after the installation finishes and reboots i have to go into terminal mode and install the fglrx. With kubuntu I have to install the realtek audio drivers(make & build) and than install the alsa to get rid of the popping and horrible bass feel to the sound which plugs my ears a little bit. There are some minor issues with linux but it does run beautifully after being configured. Linux is missing professional games, netflix, and a good alternative to windows 7 media center. xbmc and mythtv a pain to configure to make the tv tuner to work. Kaffeine slow and uses to much cpu in ubuntu but runs fast with low cpu usage in kubuntu.
My windows 7 on my phenom ii x6 had constant freezing every 2 minutes(with and without sp1) when doing some heavy tasking or just watching flash or silverlight videos but with linux distros on same machine no freaking issues. My hardware checked out okay even swapped parts out except for the motherboard and cpu, and windows 7 event viewer logs reported no issues. But after 4th installation of windows 7 i get maybe only 1-2(30-60 seconds) freezes every 1 - 2 hours. I think it's the windows 7 motherboard drivers even the asrock and amd south bridge drivers gave me same issue, but again ubuntu and kubuntu installed on the same machine no issue it just ran beautifully. Well, I actually changed in the bios from ide compatible to ahci which helps, hard disk and dvd rom both sata, duh duh. Gimp(with plugins) and blender run just as good as photoshop and maya. Netbeans, code::blocks, eclipse, bluefish, are not bad development tools to use or even learn to program.
Actually, if netflix was available for linux i would just dump windows altogether for good. I have a dual monitor setup and I usually like watching netflix on one screen while playing multiplayer games(cod 4, AA3) on my other screen.
Windows 8 which i also tested for the past 2 month's is not much better than windows 7 and I could not really see any gains in performance over windows 7. Metro is basically web on your desktop without a web browser, that's it.
Never liked ID games, they all have the same boring gameplay. Wine(improve and add windows and non-windows api's) runs fine on multiple distros so why not make it a portable gaming platform to run native linux games and not just windows apps and games. Gaming on wine is not bad but for linux gaming i mostly use emulators and now xp for netflix.
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My windows 7 is freezing right now while watching netflix or youtube on first monitor and web surfing(tried firefox, chrome, opera) on the second monitor, this happened 6 times so far. No hardware(all hardware checked out) issues especially video card which i swapped out, radeon to geforce and back. If i use linux i don't get this issue on the same hardware. I had problems like this before with xp, server 2003, and of course win7 on other amd machines. It's probably the windows standard drivers for the northbridge, sad thing asrock has only south bridge drivers no north bridge, even amd. Or there is something between microsoft and amd.
I went from opensuse to ubuntu to kubuntu 12.04 and I just love the kde 4.8. The kde taskbar is definitely better than the windows 7 when it comes to customization, adding extra taskbars, theme changing, adding widgets. Windows 7 on a dual screen is just sad I have to use ultramon to add second taskbar. The dolphin file manager looks better and has more options it's especially easy to reveal hidden files and folders in dolphin unlike windows 7 where you have to go through hoops just to turn this option on. Kde is nice when it comes to themes unlike windows 7 which you need software to do this. Visually, kde is just better.
There are pretty good apps out there for linux which i use but than there are apps on windows 7 that i need that are not on linux and wine can't run. For gaming I use emulators like pcsx2 and dolphin for both OS's and i find that the window versions are 15fps faster than the linux version with the opengl plugins. I hope steam influences game companies to develop for linux.
Actually this is a positive step towards getting more professional games onto the linux through steam for now and hopefully in the future game installers will be wrapped around by a packaging manager that will work for all linux distros. Freedom is about choices, options, not about forcing only open source software onto the linux. Linux for the Desktop runs just fine and even better than windows 7 in some areas. I have a phenom ii x6 system and windows 7 freezes when watching flash in firefox or chrome for 1 minute a few times and it goes away if i use anything than the web, i tested all my hardware and it all just fine good shape. Firefox linux is a lot faster than the windows version. But with kubuntu 12.04 it just runs flawlessly on the same hardware on the second partition, no freezes or issues. I remember I had same issue with windows server 2003 on a different amd machine few years ago. It's probably motherboard driver(using windows 7 standard) issue which I can't do anything about since the motherboard manufacturer and amd does not have the northbridge chipset drivers. When my windows 7 is flaking out I just switch over to linux. Right now I'm relying on visual basic 6, visual studio 2010, photoshop, maya, and netflix and not so much for pc games since i'm using emulators(ps2, nes, snes, genesis, gamecube/wii, mame). I will eventually move to linux as primary OS and use win7 in virtual box. Today's linux distros are more reliable and stable than windows xp sp3 and even windows 7 in some instances.
I ran windows 8 and nothing to brag about. It's basically 2 interfaces wrapped around the kernel. I think MetroUI(HTML5) for Microsoft was nothing more than an afterthought. They should of just released service pack 2 with usb3 support and better optimizations for AMD's newest FX processors(better hyper-threading than intel), and release the MetroUI only for the tablet. The problem with MetroUI is that it's really secondary component to the taskbar interface on the desktop, I don't want to see the taskbar desktop only MetroUI. I thought all apps would look and be based on html5/javascript and also that they would find away to wrap the MetroUI interface onto the old applications like office 2007/2010, adobe creative suits, or visual studio .net, etc....
I think, Microsoft as usual, does an half-ass job and releases whatever the hell they want without regards to customers feedback or complaints. Why do I have to go to and buy Ultramon to have a second F&*king taskbar on my second screen when Microsoft could of had easily implemented this themselves. Or be able to change the taskbar themes more easily than using a third-party program or replacing Microsoft DLL's. Almost all businesses are in too deep with Microsoft products and really need to quit cold turkey and move on to bsd or linux so that way adobe, autodesk, corel will be forced to port or develop from scratch applications for those OS's once they see Microsoft losing customers.
Doesn't GPL force closed-source commercial applications to open up their source code for anybody who request it? Isn't the GPL the major reason why no developer want's to write for linux. It seems GPL gives freedom to the user(access to code and make modifications) and Windows gives freedom to the developer(making money off of closed source not forced to open). If i owned a game developing company I wouldn't even consider developing games for the Linux, I need to pay for the company building, utilities, employee salaries, Lawyers, etc... Even as a individual game developer I would like to make money off of my products to make a living especially during this shitty recession.
I prefer Ubuntu 12.04 over mint 12. Mint software packager is very flimsy and becomes unresponsive at times. In Ubuntu 11.10, a few times i had the desktop panels and icons disappear on my old core2duo machine. Fedora 16 kde crashed, froze, and sometimes desktop panels and icons all disappeared same as gnome in ubuntu, but at least fedora automatically installed by kworld usb tv adapter drivers. But I always went into ubuntu terminal to bring back my desktop icons and panels same with fedora. If i remember, this issue was related to compiz. Now, on my phenom ii x6 1045t 8gb machine, windows 7 64-bit freezes when playing flash videos in firefox and chrome to running video games. I checked out my ram, motherboard, psu, video card, cpu low temperature, all check out okay. My hitachi hd 500gb might be called into question. Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit(on my somewhat busted western digital 500gb lots of bad sectors) running flash video in firefox had no freezes, slowdowns, or crashes on the same machine. I also installed ubuntu 12.04 onto someones acer netbook(1.3ghz, 2gb ram, intel gma 500) and it runs pretty well especially when running youtube videos. Hulu is actually slow but probably do to the video drivers. Windows 7 32 bit ran hulu much better on the same machine but anti-virus slowed it down to much at some points and the machine did catch a virus which is the reason why i put ubuntu 12.04 on it. Windows has the professional software, games, and optimized drivers. Maybe within the next 5 - 10 years wine under linux will be much better and able to run majority of windows apps.
The U.S government needs to stay the hell out of this and maybe deal with real issues in this country like the TSA, wars, 17 trillion debt, police brutality, privacy and rights going down the drain, banks defrauding this country, regulations and red tape slowly destroying small businesses. First of all, Microsoft does not charge anybody for developing on the their previous and current operating systems, so it is a privilege to run your app on their OS. Developers need to stop crying and bitching because Microsoft likes to use their own apps over 3rd party. If you don't like Microsoft's decision how the OS(software like IE pre-installed) will be rolled out maybe you should hire or gather with other developers online and create your own operating system to compete against MS. OH wait, there is linux, there is Solaris 11, there is OS X, there is FreeBSD. STOP CRYING!!! If Microsoft distance themselves away from 3rd party app developers, Eventually, people will move away from Microsoft's OS and to Linux or whatever is out there and surely Microsoft will implode. Let the Free Market(which is the consumer) decide.