Go Linux and stop paying the Micro$oft tax. I will never directly pay for one of their products for personal use. Ever. Their monopolistic anticompetitive practices make me sick.
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Computer Geek advice?
by SixofNine 30 Replies latest jw friends
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brinjen
Go Linux and stop paying the Micro$oft tax. I will never pay for one of their products. Ever. Their monopolistic anticompetitive practices make me sick.
Ditto. That's one of the reasons I switched to Macs. Yes, I have less choice on my hardware but I'm at the stage where as long as it does what I need it too, I don't really need to customise my system down to the last detail. No activation issues with the OS (don't even need to register it or enter a product key) and much, much more stable. Over a year so far and still yet to see a system crash.
What distrubution of Linux do you use BTS? I personally liked OpenSuSe and Ubuntu.
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BurnTheShips
This new laptop has Vista. My other machine has Suse SLES 9. I know it's old but I am too lazy to do a major upgrade. It runs a few exposed services (SFTP, SSH, VNC) and proxies my Internet (tunneled through SSH) from other locations so I can surf securely and anonymously on a private network.
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brinjen
Hey, if it ain't broken, what's the point in trying to fix it? As long as your system is working as you need it too...
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BurnTheShips
Macs are great. Just expensive.
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brinjen
True, they are pricey. Though compared to Windows sytems, they're cheaper in the long run... don't need updating near as often. Of course, neither do Linux systems.
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What-A-Coincidence
My machine is booted to run XP, Windows 7, Vista, Mac, Linux ... beat that bitches.
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brinjen
Is that a mouse from a 'bare bones' system?
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