After an exhasperating but rewarding learning experience installing
Vista Home Basic several times on my old machine I finally was
able to do things the right way and it is running fine, thanks, again,
to all the help I got in these great forums.
Having said that, I have to admit that Vista cannot be my default
OS on this system; I have several hard drives, each with a different
Operating System, and I swap them out to test and enjoy the
various differences.
I commited to getting Vista because XP was fine and I expected
Vista to be at least as good, and it is! It's better, now that I've
gotten to know it, even though I did wonder for a few days.. ........
Xandros Linux wins by a large margine, chiefly because, as with
most Linux distributions, it is smaller, faster and far more secure
(I have nothing to do with the Xandros company and am not
"advertising" for them.. this is merely about my experiences with
the two operating systems).
This is not a Windows bash!
I love Windows software and have
always had a hard drive with a Windows OS on it and I always
will, much to the dismay of some zealots in the Linux forums around
the 'net. Too bad for them; they are missing out on beautiful,
cutting edge technology and the standard setter in computing in
the world.
Meanwhile, my old machine moves along rather slowly with Vista,
and that became dramatic when I put my Xandros (one of the
slower Linux distros out there) disk back in yesterday; so I have
to stick with it as my default OS, as I say.
I'm wondering how many other Vista users around here are also
experimenting with or using Linux as your primary OS.
-- Jerry