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December 16th 2007, 09:40 AM #1
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Female - ChristianThat's It!!! Vista Stinks! Looking for New OS for Laptop.
Suggestions?
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December 16th 2007, 09:41 AM #2
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Male - Micah 6:8Re: That's It!!! Vista Stinks! Looking for New OS for Laptop.
I just started using Leopard last week. I can't tell you how much I love it.
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When I was young I admired clever people. Now that I'm older I admire kind people.~Rabbi Abraham Heschel
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December 16th 2007, 10:56 AM #3
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Male - ChristianRe: That's It!!! Vista Stinks! Looking for New OS for Laptop.
Ubuntu
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December 16th 2007, 12:33 PM #4
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Male - ChristianRe: That's It!!! Vista Stinks! Looking for New OS for Laptop.
Dos
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December 16th 2007, 12:46 PM #5
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Male - ChristianRe: That's It!!! Vista Stinks! Looking for New OS for Laptop.
Turing machine.
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December 16th 2007, 12:51 PM #6
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Male - ChristianRe: That's It!!! Vista Stinks! Looking for New OS for Laptop.
Originally posted by Pilgrim
My two favorite desktop OSes. Originally posted by Adrift
Just a note, $cir is right. -Sparko
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December 16th 2007, 02:19 PM #7
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Male - ChristianRe: That's It!!! Vista Stinks! Looking for New OS for Laptop.
practically your only choices without buying a new computer are:
Linux or Windows XP.
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December 16th 2007, 03:52 PM #8
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Male - ChristianRe: That's It!!! Vista Stinks! Looking for New OS for Laptop.
Or BSD, or Solaris, or one of hundreds of other OSes. Originally posted by Sparko
Just a note, $cir is right. -Sparko
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December 16th 2007, 04:20 PM #9
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Male - ChristianRe: That's It!!! Vista Stinks! Looking for New OS for Laptop.
thus the word "practically" Originally posted by $cirisme
Or BSD, or Solaris, or one of hundreds of other OSes.
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December 16th 2007, 04:24 PM #10
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Male - ChristianRe: That's It!!! Vista Stinks! Looking for New OS for Laptop.
BSD doesn't get the attention Linux does, but there are some pretty decent desktop BSDs out there that are actually quite practical. Ubuntu still is probably your best bet tho.
Just a note, $cir is right. -Sparko
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December 16th 2007, 04:32 PM #11
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Male - Meta-SkepticRe: That's It!!! Vista Stinks! Looking for New OS for Laptop.
I'm assuming here that you're not looking to buy a Mac. If so, then I would second the vote for Ubuntu. I had a great experience with it on my Dell laptop. Originally posted by Teallaura
You can go to www.ubuntu.com and get a live CD—which means that you can boot directly from the CD without changing anything on your computer to get a feel for how the OS works.
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December 16th 2007, 05:03 PM #12
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Male - ChristianRe: That's It!!! Vista Stinks! Looking for New OS for Laptop.
I think some people need to change their BIOS settings to make the computer look for a CD OS before the hard disk when booting. Originally posted by Tickle Me Mercury
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December 16th 2007, 05:14 PM #13
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Male - Meta-SkepticRe: That's It!!! Vista Stinks! Looking for New OS for Laptop.
Yeah, it depends. Dell's hardware was always good for making that stuff easy. You just hit f12 during boot up and it gives a device menu. Choose CD and you're good to go. Originally posted by Augustine2004
Not sure what the process is on Teal's comp. I doubt it's any more complicated than that, though.
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December 16th 2007, 05:16 PM #14
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Male - JediRe: That's It!!! Vista Stinks! Looking for New OS for Laptop.
That's more like 10,000 choices. Originally posted by Sparko
"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." — Steve Jobs
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December 16th 2007, 05:38 PM #15
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Female - ChristianRe: That's It!!! Vista Stinks! Looking for New OS for Laptop.
Thanks, everyone.
It took me over an hour to figure out how to save music from a memory stick onto the hard drive.
Over complicated, stupid, rename everything ...
Never did get the thing to acknowledge that it had already imported everything!
It's a Compaq with way too much HP _____ still on it. Same one I could never get to upload AVG (still haven't uninstalled that mess, either... 
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Anyway, the Ubunto trial run sounds good - isn't there something similar for Linux? Seems like there is... :cs: What about Leopard?
Hey, if I gotta learn a new system anyway I might as well kick a few tires and find one I really like.
Thanks everyone! ( Except Tuck who thought I wouldn't get that DOS crack...)
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles. -G.K. Chesterton
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