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Singapoor
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# Posted: 25 May 2009 21:23
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BTW yahia, it's great that you're a long time day-to-day user of LINUX because you're the perfect person to ask this question ! Of the versions you've tried, which do you like the most?
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yahia
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# Posted: 26 May 2009 20:57
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Mandriva 2009, the gnome window manager is at the top. Still KDE is fine until you start doing complicated stuff.
The last Ubuntu I used was 8.04, it has gnome WM only, and it was even better than Mandriva. Now my daughter occupied that machine and I only have access to the mandy one  .
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Singapoor
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# Posted: 27 May 2009 14:16
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Hey yahia, thanks for that . I think I'll give LINUX Mint a go for my mom's desktop (since she keep managing to develop a spyware problem with Vista). LINUX Mint's an Ubuntu derivative, so that's reassuring since Ubuntu's really newbie-friendly - will probably do a Mint GNOME combo.
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tygersclaw
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# Posted: 28 May 2009 04:59 · Edited by: tygersclaw
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For those debating between Windows XP and Windows Vista, please keep in mind that Microsoft will stop supporting XP in 2010. Yep there is an "End of Life" for XP as Microsoft prepares to roll out Microsoft 7 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/ which is at RC stage of development with a tentative planned Final version available for release this fall.
Linux is a good alternative and for the most part you can do most everything most Home Business online people need to do, and best of all, usually more securely than with Windows.
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IMoneyReview
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# Posted: 29 May 2009 17:51
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I have recently switched from using XP to Windows 7 release candidate on one of my two computers and so far I absolutely love it!
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Singapoor
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# Posted: 1 Jun 2009 11:42
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IMoneyReview: I have recently switched from using XP to Windows 7 release candidate on one of my two computers and so far I absolutely love it!
I know four people running Windows 7 and one has been on it for over a year (he's a former Microsoft employee and literally, can't wait once there's an opportunity to hop on a new OS/update/etc.). I've never heard any complaints. but granted, my friends don't mind running RCs and typically know what to do when they encounter glitches.
With all of that said, I'm more the type to wait for Microsoft full releases (and not even generation one releases at that). But I can say this about Vista and Windows 7... and as tygersclaw was pointing out, no matter what, there will be a day when using Windows will mean letting go of XP. So it's encouraging that folks are talking about Windows 7 in positive ways .
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ScruffyMutt
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# Posted: 16 Jun 2009 23:47
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My first computer was one o' those Pieced-together contraptions, (you know, parts from here and there, and a few others from "elsewhere").
A woman next door to me, at that time, had an older Mac, and taught me how to use it. But mine was a PC, with Windows 95. (Let's compare bananas and cherries!) My next couple machines had Windows 98. My land-lady, (then), had Windows XP Student Edition on hers.
When I heard that Windows would soon stop supporting 98, a friend of mine reformatted my comp and put XP Pro in it. My firewall crashed, and every virus in the universe was having a party in my machine. Since then, his XP PRO C.D. "exploded" in another friends rom. (Obviously, not available any more!)
He got a C.D. of XP Home, and burned a copy of it, which he gave to me. It seems to be working just fine still, in this much newer, (but still not "NEW"), machine.
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yahia
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# Posted: 28 Jul 2009 21:05
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I was so bored that my minds stopped working, so I switched to youtube for a while.
I found this IBM commercial, and it responds to those who have fears from open source stuff efficiency. Banks use Linux, it has to be more efficient than anything else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwL0G9wK8j4
enjoy
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