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| 885312 | 2010-05-20 11:36:00 | People like myself are just used to windows. The avg people I know, just wanna turn it on and it works and run MS Office etc. So what is the difference as I just turn it on and it works and it isn't Windows. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 885313 | 2010-05-20 11:46:00 | For the masses Windows is a lot more user friendly . More familiar with the start menu, it may be psychological but it is the same what they have at school or at work . If they wanna install Office it's less of a hassle, don't have to install VMware or whatever required, I may be more IT familiar than some non IT people but I have no clue how to install Office on Linux . If they wanna plug in their iPod or iPhone they can do that too . Be it psychological feel good, I think the masses and myself prefer Windows . I am more familar with Nokia, if I use a non Nokia phone, sure I can make a call, send a text but going via the menu's, and its keypad layout, I just prefer Nokias . |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 885314 | 2010-05-20 11:46:00 | this is a trivial thread that can only bring out the worst in people who will vehemently defend an OS that they have become accustomed to. | GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 885315 | 2010-05-20 11:50:00 | this is a trivial thread that can only bring out the worst in people who will vehemently defend an OS that they have become accustomed to. More or less as was mentioned way back in post #6. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 885316 | 2010-05-20 11:52:00 | As an example, I prefer not to deal with it, Win7 has been another learning curve for me. But I just gotta do it cos that is the future and that's the dominant market share. Down the road, schools and workplaces will use Win7. I just recently got Office 2007, had/is a nightmare, took me 25mins to find the autosum function icon. True, I could of types it in manually but I wanted to challenge myself to find it. The ribbon style is totally new to me. I have a friend in Singapore who is planning on getting a new laptop and MS Office and he prefer to get Office 2010 because he doesn't want to deal with 2007. 2010 is not 2003 but at least the pill is mild. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 885317 | 2010-05-20 21:26:00 | And why is this an issue? DirectX performance under wine (assuming your game will run - many do) is almost identical to DirectX performance on Windows. Put simply Wine only supports a percentage of games I am guessing 30%, many (I am being kind) of the later titles don't work. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 885318 | 2010-05-21 04:40:00 | Put simply Wine only supports a percentage of games I am guessing 30%, many (I am being kind) of the later titles don't work.Oh absolutely - nobody is trying to claim otherwise. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 885319 | 2010-05-24 11:33:00 | I'm currently running Windows 7 and am considering installing Ubuntu onto a separate physical hard drive. What do I need to do to make sure that I get a prompt to choose which OS to load when booting up? The other day I installed Ubuntu onto a separate HDD and the system was still booting into Windows with no prompt. If I wanted to run Ubuntu, I then had to change the booting priority of the hard drives. Any help appreciated. |
legod (4626) | ||
| 885320 | 2010-05-24 11:43:00 | When you change the boot priority and boot from the Ubuntu drive, does your Grub menu show an entry for Windows or does it only show Ubuntu? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 885321 | 2010-05-24 11:59:00 | When you change the boot priority and boot from the Ubuntu drive, does your Grub menu show an entry for Windows or does it only show Ubuntu? Well I'm going to try another installation attempt later this week so will report back. I presume I need to change the BIOS so booting order priority is set to the HDD that Linux is installed on? |
legod (4626) | ||
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