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Make me not love Vista, go ahead, TRY
worker201:
Myself, I have 2 computers at the moment. One runs Windows XP SP3, which I only use for one program, which is required for school. Everything else is done on the Mac running 10.5 Leopard. I have lots of experience with Slackware and Fedora, but don't currently have Linux installed at home.
Regarding the "universal installation method", a lot of people have wanted something like that. But I think it is anathema to the Linux concept. Within the Linux framework, people are encouraged to solve the same problem multiple times, because there's no standards org that says "We'll use this one". So some guy invented rpm, and thought that was the ultimate be-all-end-all package manager. Then some other guy came up with deb, and he thought that was the ultimate be-all-end-all package manager. Which is right? Both. Or neither, if you like adding Slack tgz packages. It's a crazy situation, but to enforce some kind of centralized standard would be to interfere with the independence of each individual developer. That's the price you pay for the total freedom of Linux.
I used to think Macs sucked too, and they seriously did back in the days before OSX. But nowdays, there's nothing out there that compares. Every time I open the lid, I am impressed with what this computer is capable of. When you consider the extensibility of BootCamp and MacPorts, the sky truly is the limit.
_ZeroBeta:
--- Quote from: Kintaro on 15 August 2008, 07:58 ---Yeah. Though considering I like it so much I'll have every reason to buy it, and you are allowed to use pirate copies for 60 days legally, not allowed to crack them, but I did anyway. I'm sure Microsoft will send out some ingenious update that breaks that crack and I'll finally probably buy a copy.
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I thought the limit was 30 days?
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