I have been using the beta version of vista for a few months now and everything on the list is true. VISTA IS CRAP!!!
My machine may not be top end, AMD Athlon 64bit 3200, 1GB RAM, Radeon 9800Pro. But I have opened the task manager (I use the word "manager" very loosly) to often find that the shell is chewing up +600Mb of memory and that is just plain greedy!!
OK, so it looks pretty... but that is of no use when it takes it 10 minutes just to load the desktop. And even once it has, you better not try and run anything...
There seems to be a lot of people missing the point with this - the article is about distro's for newbies, this is not about how to master shell commands or server admin, this is for newbies, if you are a sys admin, or need to do some of the more complex stuff - get a book. If you already know how to do everything - the article was never designed for you.
Although I have set-up many a Linux system, recompiled the kernel, configured X from a console and still mount drives using the command line - I am a linux newbie (imagine how scared your average linux virgin is). I thought the article was great and if we expect Linux to be taken on by the main-stream, then it needs to be less daunting for the average end-user - most of them have never heard of linux and even more have never heard of/.
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I have been using the beta version of vista for a few months now and everything on the list is true.
VISTA IS CRAP!!!
My machine may not be top end, AMD Athlon 64bit 3200, 1GB RAM, Radeon 9800Pro.
But I have opened the task manager (I use the word "manager" very loosly) to often find that the shell is chewing up +600Mb of memory and that is just plain greedy!!
OK, so it looks pretty... but that is of no use when it takes it 10 minutes just to load the desktop. And even once it has, you better not try and run anything...
Back to XPPro & Kubuntu for me...
There seems to be a lot of people missing the point with this - the article is about distro's for newbies, this is not about how to master shell commands or server admin, this is for newbies, if you are a sys admin, or need to do some of the more complex stuff - get a book. If you already know how to do everything - the article was never designed for you.
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Although I have set-up many a Linux system, recompiled the kernel, configured X from a console and still mount drives using the command line - I am a linux newbie (imagine how scared your average linux virgin is). I thought the article was great and if we expect Linux to be taken on by the main-stream, then it needs to be less daunting for the average end-user - most of them have never heard of linux and even more have never heard of
Gibsons story (http://www.grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm) makes for a great read - and he did put up a list - and it worked pretty well.