OT: Windows is too expensive

Baron Munchausen · #1 March 11th, 2007, 02:34 PM

What? You could have used Linux instead? Or you would have bought a retail copy of XP at the higher price instead?

I'll take the XP package if you don't want to use it.

Windows still has its uses. For a while, anyway.

Arralen · #2 March 12th, 2007, 06:08 PM

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Baron Munchausen said:
Windows still has its uses. For a while, anyway.

Until April, 2014:
End of extended support for XP prof and home ... .

Lets hope Reactos and/or Linux are really usuable by then!

(and if anyone else has a wrapped version of XP prof lying around - I would be glad to help him getting rid of it ;-) )

AgentZero · #3 March 13th, 2007, 04:07 AM

Heh, by 2014 we'll have mobile phones that can run XP fer cryin out loud, and a Vista machine would cost less than a grand. Still, I'm all in favour of the user-friendly Linux idea. That'd be sweet.

Fyron · #4 March 13th, 2007, 05:23 AM

A "vista machine" only costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $600 US, including the ability to run Aero.

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 March 13th, 2007, 07:47 PM

Aero? Oreo? what do cookies have to do with vista?

Santiago · #6 March 13th, 2007, 07:51 PM

Give Microsoft Oreos and get Vista Aero

frightlever · #7 March 14th, 2007, 05:57 AM

If you're ever thinking of experimenting with Ubuntu again there are usually three versions on the go. I think the current 6.10 (Feisty Fawn?) is the latest stable version. There may be an unstable beta and there's the first time installers friend 6.06LTS - the ultra stable version. The LTS is for long term support, which is to say they'll support the OS repositories not that you have to buy a support package off them. I never had a problem with 6.06 but 6.10 eventually got kicked off my second machine.

parabolize · #8 March 14th, 2007, 07:38 AM

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AgentZero said:
Heh, by 2014 we'll have mobile phones that can run XP.

I'm not seeing the advantage to running XP over the faster, more specialized operating systems phones use now.

AgentZero · #9 March 14th, 2007, 05:07 PM

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parabolize said:
I'm not seeing the advantage to running XP over the faster, more specialized operating systems phones use now.

I never said there'd be any advantage, only that it'd be possible.

Phoenix-D · #10 March 14th, 2007, 07:03 PM

Games is one issue, but Linux is simply a pain in the ***. The UI works all right, but it doesn't cover most essential functions, leaving only the command prompt and manually editing control files. Not a good thing. I shouldn't have to do that for basic tasks like installing drivers on a fresh machine..