On Apr 3, 12:52 am, Charlie Choc
wrote:
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:44:06 -0500, wrote:
OK, I'm curious as to your opinion as to why most folks would want to
upgrade to Vista.

If you are happy and productive with XP on a current machine, no particular
reason - unless you want to switch to the 64bit version, which has better memory
management than the 64 bit version of XP. If you get a new machine with Vista on
it and the applications and devices you are using are currently supported by
their vendors, then there is no particular reason *not* to run Vista. If you are
waiting for the next OS from MS, be prepared to wait longer than you think, and
be advised that it will likely be more similar to, and have more in common with,
Vista than XP.
--
Charlie...http://www.chocphoto.com

That may well be so Charlie. If any of the linux distributions solve
a few of their problems with periphery drivers, then they will blow
windows away for many applications. Very many people, a large
proportion of the public sector, and many businesses here have already
changed to various linux distributions. For some of the high end
peripheral hardware, and most "normal" business applications, it is
just better. Less useful for many personal applications though because
of the driver problems associated with a lot of "personal" hardware,
and
the difficulty in getteing some "old" applications to run on it.

Although all in all, the linux software palette is greather than the
windows palette. It is also no longer just a "geek" system.

This may be of interest;

http://www.linux-xp.com/

http://www.altlinux.com/

TL
MC