Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (12 Viewers)
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I had a ThinkPad running Windows 7 at work. It was fine for the first year after which it went into crawl mode. Re-imaging worked for a few weeks, but it again got too slow, too quick. Windows 7 essentially felt like Vista in a new dress 
Well it is really. I appreciate Linux immensely and I constantly tinker with various distros from time to time. I acknowledge in the hands of an expert(you) it's far more stable and responsive as compared to Windows. However, with 7, Windows has achieved normal user/moderate power user greatness, IMO. Proof; my younger cousin is on the same install for over 2 years. Years ago I was reinstaling XP on her PC on a quarterly basis.
So it's not crashing, ergo it's good. I see what you mean.
Crashing or not crashing I find it unusable. Doesn't have a good shell. Doesn't have a package manager. Errors happen without ever reporting what actually went wrong so the only recourse you have is retrying. I could go on, but I won't.
EDIT: Doesn't have ssh. How the f do you live without that.
Crashing or not crashing I find it unusable. Doesn't have a good shell. Doesn't have a package manager. Errors happen without ever reporting what actually went wrong so the only recourse you have is retrying. I could go on, but I won't.
EDIT: Doesn't have ssh. How the f do you live without that.
Well yeah. If a car isn't getting broken, it's a good car. Doesn't matter if some greasehead can't put that V8 in it, if it drives, it's good.
That's your professional deformation. You're looking at this from your professional/personal viewpoint, based on years of experience. I can understand that as it's not meant to do what you want it to do. But for the casual joe; who's surfing, playing, making spreadsheets or whatever, not crashing is and getting broken is all that matters. Just like I can't live with my Android not being rooted and that status bar icon not looking exactly how I want it, the usual guy couldn't care less as long as whatsapp and facebook opens.
Personally, Win 7 has made my life a whole hell of a lot easier.
That's your professional deformation.
You're looking at this from your professional/personal viewpoint, based on years of experience. I can understand that as it's not meant to do what you want it to do. But for the casual joe; who's surfing, playing, making spreadsheets or whatever, not crashing is and getting broken is all that matters. Just like I can't live with my Android not being rooted and that status bar icon not looking exactly how I want it, the usual guy couldn't care less as long as whatsapp and facebook opens. Personally, Win 7 has made my life a whole hell of a lot easier.
I know you're not, you're just telling me Windows sucks.
That's true but for some news reading and casual stuff, it gets the job done.
What phone are you on nowadays anyway? Last I remember you were pondering some HTC wildfire because it had a smaller screen, which meant more battery..something like that.
That's true but for some news reading and casual stuff, it gets the job done.
What phone are you on nowadays anyway? Last I remember you were pondering some HTC wildfire because it had a smaller screen, which meant more battery..something like that.
I know you're not, you're just telling me Windows sucks.
That's true but for some news reading and casual stuff, it gets the job done.
What phone are you on nowadays anyway? Last I remember you were pondering some HTC wildfire because it had a smaller screen, which meant more battery..something like that.
That's true but for some news reading and casual stuff, it gets the job done.
What phone are you on nowadays anyway? Last I remember you were pondering some HTC wildfire because it had a smaller screen, which meant more battery..something like that.
This Christmas I using my phone on the wifi quite a lot. Nothing like extended use to drive home how much it sucks. Every page load takes 3 secs to load, no matter how big or small. When you click a link and come back the browser doesn't remember the position you scrolled to on the previous page. Links don't load in the background because of power saving. I constantly hit the wrong link cause they're close together. And so on.
HTC Desire X. It's nice.
I'm running into some issues with streaming media. I was trying to load streams for the Juve game the other day but they consistently kept freezing about 2-5 min in. I know it's not a bandwidth issue or that the servers were busy because I was able to load them on my phone just fine. Could this have something to do with my RAM as well? I'm still using my old error-ridden RAM (which hasn't given me any problems since I disabled my Chrome extensions).
On a side note (I think) I'm having a problem running streams on Sopcast.
On a side note (I think) I'm having a problem running streams on Sopcast.
