Using windows you waste a lot of time… I checked it over a year writing down the times I had to fix sth or dive in the details how to remove another spyware program (Yes, I’m using my computer a lot). It came up to

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!
!!!!! 30 days per year just wasted because of Microsoft’s incompetence !!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!

I did the switch and what a change… Yes, it takes longer to learn sth new but by now (half a year) linux (ubuntu) has never crashed or lost important data.

You SAY windows vista is worth a while ? I say

-> It spends more time spinning the harddisk than do anything useful
(Poor implementation of the paging-algorithms, poor page-prediction)

-> Memory management has NOT changed at all -> Leads to software beeing
inconsiderable slow ESP. the longer the computer is not beeing rebooted

-> Insecure Filesystem in terms of loosing data. The claim that ntfs is anything
close to a journaling filesystem is Microsoft-usual just a playing with terms,
to make people believe. Search the web for ReiserFS or XFS and compare yourself
THOSE ARE REAL JOURNALING FILESYSTEMS.
Effect: You might loose part of your data again during a crash
Other Effect: Windows makes accessing harddisks unnecessary slow (fact!)

-> One malicious program can pull down your whole PC (no elaboration needed, we all
had that one . This is because Microsoft STILL (15 years later) has not
implemented the features of the Intel(or AMD) x86 processors. Imagine … more than
15 years later they still havent made it – sounds almost like a joke,
but its a fact (For those who are interested in details read about “protected mode”
of the processor)
Effect for the User : The more software is beeing installed, the higher the chance
that nothing works at the end (sounds familiar eh ?)

-> The provided tcp-implementation is rather poor. This throws up two very concrete
effects : Insufficient protection (malware, trojians, exploits) AND a quite
instable network-capability. This is actually not that obvious when turning on,
but if one does the effort to check the ip-response times on a windows server
thats running for a few days with lets say a Webserver -> its a fact ! Handles
dont get released, it just gets slooow and here we go again REBOOT !
Effect for the User : Wether installs another application (e.g. norton firewall
or so ) on his computer and runs automatically in the above mentioned problems,
or doesnt do anything and will suffer from a very tempramental computer esp. when
connected to the firewall.

Well so much about the hard-facts.

And YOU ARE TELLING THERE ARE REASONS TO USE MICROSOFT WINDOWS AT ALL ?

Windows 2000, Me, XP, Vista…. nothing concerning the functionality of the OS has ever changed !!!

Use the time of change NOT to go from XP to Vista, Delete Windows!!!! Download Ubuntu Linux (all for free) and start a new life with more time spend in the applications you really want to use, not fixing the Operating System all the time !

Dat is a really gud idea, my MoM and DaD are using the comp too much..

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i am only 12 years old, So you are laughing at me, but what will you say when i say that i am 25 while you are 40 years old??? and who will be laughing.

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i am only 12 years old, So you are laughing at me, but what will you say when i say that i am 25 while you are 40 years old???