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Comment Re:The problematic truth (Score 3, Insightful) 1010

Heh, you think they'll stay home and just deal with the occasional BSOD?  You've never worked with end users have you?  Users taking time to actually work through problems...  OMG LMAO!  No, they come to me.  And, yes, for the record, we have the occasional person come in to complain.

But not for the OS being unstable.  They come in because they can't get their ten year old printer to work.  Or, because their friend told them that the Vista is bad.  Or, because they're so afraid of computers that they can't handle change.

Look, I'm not saying that Vista is all flowers and puppies, but I only have two issues with it.  1. x64 adoption and support is not nearly wide enough to support the resource requirements.  2.  GNS3 / Dynamips doesn't play nice with the UAC and that made for a long afternoon trying to do my Cisco lab for the first time after I installed Vista.

But then the second issue could have been solved if the GNS3 developers had taken a little more time to test it with Vista.

Oh, and 'the rest of us' is not the majority.

Comment Re:I have a feeling.... (Score 0, Troll) 1010

Well, that kind of missed the point though.  MS did a presentation a little while back which pointed out that their biggest competition is pirated copies of Windows (and not by a small margin).

http://www.osnews.com/story/21035/Ballmer_Linux_Bigger_Competitor_than_Apple

The point is that people can say all they want that Vista caused an explosion in Linux installs.  But in reality, so very few people have switched to Linux or OSX that it hardly matters.  MS said that they were worried about Linux, but its like the Olympics being worried about competition from the Special Olympics.

There's lots of really great, skilled people working on Linux, but no one cares.  At least, not in the mainstream.

Comment Re:The problematic truth (Score 5, Interesting) 1010

You know, I work in a retail store as a break/fix monkey.  I hardly ever see people downgrading.  Most 'regular' people are perfectly fine with Vista.  Especially now that hardware has caught up to it.

I'd be really curious to see some actual statistics re: downgrading.  I doubt it'd be as high as Slashdot seems to think.

Comment Re:Denial is a river in Egypt (Score 1) 616

It can't be.  Just look at the former PS models.  One of the things that Sony had going for it was the gigantic collection of games that were out for the PS1 and PS2.

Sure, not all of them were great, but there were so many games that it was hard to not to find something that you liked.  Even if the majority of them played like No More Heroes.

Comment Re:Will it fly? (Score 1) 289

With 4GB I've got my lab machine running three instances of 2K3 (one running Exchange 2007), one instance of CentOS, two instances of the Cisco IOS on Dynamips, all running on a Vista box.  And that's just a Pentium D.

It doesn't run super quick, but everything except the Exchange machine runs okay.

Comment Re:Marketing MIA (Score 3, Insightful) 625

Why?  Because while you may be able to navigate it, most users can't or won't.  Microsoft has shown people that they can use computers without having to remember commands.  They don't want to go back.

And, frankly, they shouldn't have to just because Linux is a 'technically' better operating system.  Just look at Apple's recent sales increases - you think people are getting Macs because they are better for video editing?  Of course not, they're getting Macs because they have great marketing, and they're still pretty enough that people will justify a small learning curve.

While Ubuntu is getting better, it is still Linux.  It still requires the terminal to do many things, and people don't want to.  People are inherently lazy. And this is especially true when Linux gives them little reason to switch (no, the hundred dollar difference between Windows and Ubuntu is a good enough reason).

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