Vista on Older Hardware - Windows Vista Forum

jerrybasham · #1 02-19-2007, 03:36 PM

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

Znod · #2 02-19-2007, 03:54 PM

Well said, and you are very welcome for any help I have given. I hope that you will continue to use Vista some and to post here regardless. You have Vista learning experiences to share. We would miss you if Linux stole you away completely. Buy a new Vista machine??? Hope so. There are some very inexpensive Vista Premium Ready machines floating around.

jerrybasham · #3 02-19-2007, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Znod

Well said, and you are very welcome for any help I have given. I hope that you will continue to use Vista some and to post here regardless. You have Vista learning experiences to share. We would miss you if Linux stole you away completely. Buy a new Vista machine??? Hope so. There are some very inexpensive Vista Premium Ready machines floating around.

Thanx, Znod.. like I said, I'll always have Vista (and/or whatever comes next

), I'm
not a member of The Church of Linux (I made that up) as so many Linux users
are.. I've been fooling with it since way back in '97 when Redhat 5.2 first got my
attention.. it's been fun watching Linux grow and evolve over the years; as a
matter of fact, the most popular non-free Linux versions have adopted a very
"Windows-like" appearance while retaining the Linux stability and security,
Xandros and Linspire especially.

But, anyway, I need Windows running because the work computers are all
Windows and my wife won't switch to Linux so I can't be left in the dark about
what is going on in the Windows world; I have to maintain a familiarity with
the OS or it's like starting over each time there's a crash or virus to weed out.

Once I'm ready to go high-tech and purchase a nice Pentium 4 with a big
flat screen and all the other great stuff I'll likely leave Linux behind. Right
now it's a necessity on this 900Mhz Celeron antique.

-- Jerry