Re: How workable is Vista?


"rickman" <gnuarm@xxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelelsen news:e9f7949b-fb8f-43a9-a220-d1bf6d62592f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Is it
time to switch to Linux?

Depends - Wine supports most of what runs on Windows XP *except* .NET .... as it happens, I (also) make money writing software that requires .NET so no, cannot switch entirely.


What experiences have people had with Vista?


I actually got Vista to a useable state - meaning:

About the same speed asthe old 1.2 GHz Athlon 64 + 1 Gig RAM - But this time on a Dual core 1.8 GHz
Toshiba A300 lapdog with 3 GB RAM!! The graphics driver on the Toshiba A300 is *** - thx to Intel!

There is a lot to of things switch off but especially: The service
"Superfetch" whitch sucks away all the RAM and "Readyboost" which I will
never use. Since it is a lapdog one can also set the HDD to use maximum
buffering because we have backup power.

On "Windows Features" I killed the following:

Remote Differential Compression*, Removable storage management, Servives for
NFS, Print Services, Windows Fax & Scan, Windows Meeting Space, Windows DFS
Replication Service, Indexing Service.

Anyways:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/remove-optional-and-probably-unnecessary-windows-vista-components/

*responsible for hour-loooong drag & drop Vista Experience via Explorer!!!

I.O.W. It's lame, more or less a WinXP ME but is sort-of-works well enough most of the time.

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