Posts Tagged ‘windows’

Making Vista and Linux get along

As I said in my previous post I’ve recently got a nice shiny new laptop. It came with Vista and so far I’ve left it on there. I have a few games which I don’t yet dare try and get running in Linux so a multiboot system will suffice for now. Unfortunately, Windows Update doesn’t [...]

The Charlie Browns of Computing

Always a sucker for a carefully thought out, well explained article on my favourite subject – Linux – I was pleased as punch to find this blog through a post from mesanna. Windows Users – The Charlie Browns of Computing Quite frankly this man should be knighted, and really not just for championing Linux but [...]

Linux sucks… or rather it doesn't: please think before you speak

I’ve just found a fantastic article by Walter V. Koenning tackling the “issues” so many long-term Windows user have with Linux. Walter is utterly spot on with everything he says. I’m so tired of reading comments posted by utterly ignorant Windows users (you know, they call drug addicts users.. what’s that saying about us geeky [...]

Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100)

Well, in the last few days I’ve installed and have begun to get intimate with Windows 7 and honestly, I’m quite impressed; in an underwhelmed and slightly “well it’s about time” kind of way. It’s improvements thus far, while occasionally quite good, are obvious userbility tweaks which should have been present in Vista. I’ve never [...]