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Linux Fan : Vista's not that bad!

I use Kubuntu and CentOS for running websites back-ended by Oracle, so I know enough about Linux/Unix to get by. I tried the big V about 2 months after it came out, it was truly awful, however I recently thought I would give it another go. Installed it in bootcamp on an iMac, shoved on SP1 and I have to say that it is actually very good. Installed Oracle 11g, kitted up a DB, ran some CGI with an Apache kit, seemed OK. Also ran up a copy of FarCry and UT3, sorry to say, it actually is not that bad. Seems to make all the right noises when i try to change something I am not entitled to. I do feel that they rushed it, hope they will get it right with the next Windows kit or they really will be in trouble. OSX and Linux have had plenty of time to make the world aware of their presence and I think people are actually listening!

Most people are just jumping the "Vista's cack!" bandwagon, most of them not even having tried it. Unless you have actually tried it AND done stuff that normal people would do with it ( REMEMBER IT'S A DEKSTOP O/S NOT A SERVER O/S! ), not recompile God knows what and try to get Crysis running on some bizarre combination of unknown Taiwanese pattern parts, STFU!

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