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posted September 22, 2008 02:33 PM |
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Edited by radar at 14:38, 22 Sep 2008.
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The experiment has shown that the criticism comes from nowhere as the ones who moan how much Vista is screwed haven't tried it by themselves.
For comfortable work the system requires 2GB. Now don't tell me the latest computers are sold with 128mb RAM 
And Vista indeed always consumes 50% of your memory (no matter how much you have) to do "its things" (truly I don't know what for). It also gives you back the RAM when you need it, in example launch a game.
@William: noone's gonna force you to install Vista on a 5-years old machine. The thing is with updates it performs actually faster then XP on today's machines.
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posted September 22, 2008 02:35 PM |
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2GB is too high of a requirement for an OS. I agree with TheDeath and say that an OS should be able to run at 128MB these days. That's another problem with Vista. It has too high requirements. I just want to have a stable OS, not a pile of junk that will probably require me to buy another computer just so I can get a new OS which uses more resources and will probably make it the same in performance that I already have, probably even worse actually.
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posted September 22, 2008 02:39 PM |
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MSDOS 4.0, Win98SE(Currently out of service, the HD blasted) and XP SP3.
I would be running Linux but I'm a gamer so it's out of option. I do have Knoppix for bypassing windows limitations when needed.
OS shouldn't need more than 2 MB of memory to work at max. Too bad that isn't the case with most.
Oh and I agree Vista sucks. It runs like a snail and linux is more beautiful if you want a stylish OS anyways. 3D cube desktop!
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william
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posted September 22, 2008 02:41 PM |
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3D Cube desktop is the best. And the good thing is, the OS STILL runs very fast, if not faster than how Windows would run. It's a great OS and very fast imo. 
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posted September 22, 2008 02:43 PM |
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Edited by TheDeath at 14:45, 22 Sep 2008.
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For comfortable work the system requires 2GB. Now don't tell me the latest computers are sold with 128mb RAM
I want a newer computer so I can run BETTER software and smoother.
When I purchase 2 GB of RAM, I expect 90% to go into something I WANT, not in the OS. I don't want to spend 4GB and end up with only 2. That's like saying: "Vista requires 2 GB, so if you have 2GB + 128, you can still run your previous games fine, when you had 256 MB RAM".
Why did I buy the new computer? To run the same games and expect the same performance from them because the OS eats all the new stuff I bought?
If I buy 16 GB tomorrow, I expect to run 16 times the amount I have now (1 GB), not just 8 times because the "new and improved" OS eats 8 GB 
Oh and I don't need 3D crap and Aero style, I need a clean and systematic approach to my SYSTEM. It's not a video game, it's TECHNICAL.
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william
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posted September 22, 2008 02:45 PM |
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Edited by william at 14:47, 22 Sep 2008.
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Yes, that was the point I was trying to make with my post before JoonasTo. Good post, TheDeath.
And TheDeath, you actually have to try the 3d cube in order to say stuff about it. It's actually very good and it helps out a lot by making the usability a bit better. Seriously, maybe research a little bit on it then maybe even try it, then come back here and say what you think. I would like to know what you think after all that.
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Asheera
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posted September 22, 2008 02:47 PM |
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The XP vs Linux thing is like MSN vs Pidgin, but even worse: imagine if Pidgin can handle less protocols than MSN (since Windows can run a much higher variety of programs and games)
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radar
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posted September 22, 2008 02:47 PM |
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Yuo didn't read what I wrote
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posted September 22, 2008 02:49 PM |
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Edited by Asheera at 14:49, 22 Sep 2008.
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Read this again DeathQuote:
And Vista indeed always consumes 50% of your memory (no matter how much you have) to do "its things" (truly I don't know what for). It also gives you back the RAM when you need it, in example launch a game.
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posted September 22, 2008 02:49 PM |
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@Radar: But mac still beats Vista in terms of performance.
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william
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posted September 22, 2008 02:49 PM |
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The XP vs Linux thing is like MSN vs Pidgin
It's nothing like that at all actually. Linux is an solo OS and so is XP. MSN is a solo messenger client but Pidgin can run many protocols which makes that a kinda bad comparison if you ask me.
A better comparison would be Linux and Windows, not just Windows XP and the whole of Linux.
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TheDeath
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posted September 22, 2008 02:50 PM |
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The XP vs Linux thing is like MSN vs Pidgin, but even worse
"Even worse"?
I'd say that being faster AND having more protocols is kinda... pwned.
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imagine if Pidgin can handle less protocols than MSN (since Windows can run a much higher variety of programs and games)
Then it would be 'fair' since the performance excuse can be used for MSN (i.e handles more protocols thus it's slower).
The other way around there's simply no contest what-so-ever, apart from a few features that probably will be implemented later. (remember MSN protocol is not very open-source unlike Linux, so Pidgin staff have some trouble figuring it out).
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Asheera
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posted September 22, 2008 02:52 PM |
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"Even worse"?
I'd say that being faster AND having more protocols is kinda... pwned.
Sure, I was pwned, in Quote Wars. You do see that ":" (colon) after even worse, don't you? It's supposed to explain why it's "even worse" than the example that was set before (MSN vs Pidgin)
I'm seriously done talking with you. Even this simple topic got into Quote Wars meh
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posted September 22, 2008 02:53 PM |
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Edited by william at 14:54, 22 Sep 2008.
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Even this simple topic got into quote wars? Funny, because in your post there is a quote. Seems like you are contributing to that as wel. 
@Radar, this machine is new and it runs fine with XP, except for a few errors here and there but that is partly my fault.
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TheDeath
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posted September 22, 2008 02:55 PM |
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Sure, I was pwned, in Quote Wars. You do see that ":" (colon) after even worse, don't you? It's supposed to explain why it's "even worse" than the example that was set before (MSN vs Pidgin)
"Even worse" means that what is before is "worse" lol. It's the other way around actually. That was my point.
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posted September 22, 2008 02:58 PM |
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Bah! Young whippersnappers and yer fancy windows! Who needs windows? Back in my day, before 'Nam, we just had brick walls, and we walked uphill to school in the snow both ways, and we only had 150 Pokemon!
Seriously, though, Windows XP isn't that much better than any other Windows. If Win95 were compatible with newer programs and had System Restore, then it'd be even better. But Vista is teh suxxors. I mean, Vista is to OSs what a colored padded insane asylum room is to rooms in general. It's meant to make people say, "Wow, cool!" with its interface, and make sure they don't hurt themselves (I mean, you can't even save anything in "Program Files"!), so it's completely .
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william
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posted September 22, 2008 02:59 PM |
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I was afraid you would post in here. Do you even know what you are talking about? And young whippersnappers? I'm pretty sure nearly everyone who has posted in this topic is older than you, lol.
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Asheera
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posted September 22, 2008 02:59 PM |
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@William: You don't even know what Quote Wars are. It's not to Quote something in a post, but if you quote a part of a paragraph instead of the whole, so that the point will get twisted, then THAT's quote war
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posted September 22, 2008 03:00 PM |
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I was afraid you would post in here. Do you even know what you are talking about? And young whippersnappers? I'm pretty sure nearly everyone who has posted in this topic is older than you, lol.
BAH! Get off my lawn!
And yes, I know what I'm talking about.
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william
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posted September 22, 2008 03:01 PM |
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Edited by william at 15:03, 22 Sep 2008.
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Asheera, I have been here long enough to know what a quote war is, so don't say I don't know what one is. My post wasn't even serious, and I thought that you should have known that. Just like MSN, when I write after something, it means that I wasn't really too serious or I was just joking.
And Mvass, I have a hard time believing that. Seriously. 
This topic is finally a topic which strays away from the usual stuff we have in OSM and it would be good if you could take this at least a little seriously just like you treat your most replied to subjects like God threads, Politics etc. Maybe it would be better to just leave the jokes out for a bit, k? 
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