Widows Vista

[mikeschn]

I don't apologize for being curious about how many PC World readers are using Vista; we gotta keep tabs on that to know how much attention we should devote to the new OS. I don't have hard numbers, but I can tell you this: In the month of March so far, about five percent of PCWorld.com visitors have come to the site via a Vista PC...and about 81 percent are still on XP.

Which is a meaningless figure unless you compare it to something. Thanks to the magic of Web analytics I can do just that: Back in 2001, during the comparable period after the release of Windows XP, eleven percent of PCWorld.com visitors were already running XP.

That would suggest that for PC Worldly folks, at least, Vista might be off to a slower start than XP's rollout. But I repeat: I really don't care how well how well Windows Vista is selling....

more... http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/003944.html

[Mike B]

I just loaded Ubuntu on a backup machine... the jury is still out on that...

I have switched most of my machines over from both openSUSE Linux and Mepis Linux to Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. I now have it running on my Compaq notebook and have even gotten the wireless to work, with a bit of fiddling.

I am a very happy camper with Ubuntu. If you google for Automatix2 and install it, you will then be able to install all those nasty proprietary bits that have been left out of the distro, like support for encrypted DVDs, Nvidia proprietary driver, etc.

Mike
Linuxing in Hayden Lake since 1994 (Yggdrasil, if you can believe it)

[mikeschn]

I spent part of the weekend playing with Live CDs.

My favorite live CD is Puppy Linux. I like the motif interface, and it's fast.

I still have Ubuntu loaded on the old 750 mhz machine...

I am also running Puppy Linux inside Vmware on my desktop PC.

I'm not ready to take the plunge to Linux yet... but I found a site that might help me take the plunge...

http://www.osalt.com/

BTW, that site is also good if you are running Windows...

[Juneaudave]

I have Vista running on a newer Dell 1505 laptop and XP on a 3 year old Dell box (don't remember the Model). I'm not a bleeding edge user, so other than updating some drivers, I've not had any problems. The laptop is sweet, but there is no chance that I would swap XP for Vista on the older machine.

[Jiminsav]

Vista works great if you turn off the security and notification features.

[ssrjim]

Can anyone say OS X?

[emiller]

Vista works great for me. At first some problems but now it's great. I'm mostly not very good with computers in the first place. That's why I'm mostly camping, I can't stand being home.

[ssrjim]

Vista works great for me. At first some problems but now it's great. I'm mostly not very good with computers in the first place. That's why I'm mostly camping, I can't stand being home.

Computers pay the bills around here...