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The human speed is usually the bottle-neck rather than graphics these days. Unless you’re talking about Windows Aero. But by the time businesses upgrade, their new boxes would be faster as well…most will set it to classic anyway because they would get confused by the new look.well it does in windows ok.
But the more modern linux desktops can take advantage of the graphics card to off load the graphics processing to it and save the CPU for the more important tasks. And, yes, I have seen businesses prefer to stick with their "green screens" as they believe it has faster screen updates and allows for keyboard only usage (moving your hand from the keyboard the mouse can slow things down a lot).
I know what you mean about the green screens. I’ve had users request function keys for this and that, but software has so many function keys these days that they get confused and do things inadvertently making mistakes. So I gradually removed functions in order to make them used mouse buttons and explain to every one of them each time they would ask for functions key.
As a windows only user you are probably only used to working on one desktop but when you have 4 or more the cube functionality is very useful to help you visualize and remember what is where. So it's certainly not all pointless and until you use them I don't think you can comprehend the value it provides.
I actually maximize each window I use anyway. Unless I’m dragging and dropping something. And to me the taskbar is good enough because it shows you all the windows that are open in a menu style fashion.
So how much money did I save [and be more cost efficient] by not choosing windows?
As a Home Computer, Yes you did save money “theoretically”, but I believe we’ve been through that already. For most businesses the extra costs is actually irrelevant… At least for the time being. Especially since they already have a lot of software tied to it and sometimes even integrated to it. So not necessarily cost "effective".
You come to a forum for people who wish to discuss open source software and declare you don't like open source software and the firm that has been doing & spending the most to put a spanner in the workings of the Open Source Movement is producing the best software available. It may not be a rant but it an unusual way to spend your time. Perhaps you're paid to do it?
Actually, I passed by the “Linux or Windows” topic and after reading it I thought that I’d contribute and alternate angle than what I saw in some of the posts. But yeah you got me. Microsoft’s hires employees to go to obscure boards in .ie as part of their global mass marketing campaign to sell a few extra copies of vista.:rolleyes:What do you honestly expect as a response? That we'd all say, "hmm, your right I'm going out today to buy a ultimate version of vista!”?
Open Source has momentum now... it's too late to stop it. And I fail to see how statistics comparing $ based product to 0$ product makes any sense? The fact is the biggest thing in the world of computers today is the web... and the vast majority of it is run by open source software. There will always be idiots who fall for MS's nice glossy marketing brochures and waste lots of money, but more and more are waking up to discover that there are alternatives and very good ones too!
Okay fine you didn’t like the fact that people actually had to buy servers in order to use linux and even Unix. So here’s a nice pie chart that describes the OS penetration of all computers.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8
Perhaps all you say will become true, and this movement actually has a potential to change the way things work for good. But I could tell you that within the next two years (the useful life of a PC) it is not going to happen to the scale that you are talking about. And the original point of this thread was whether windows vs. linux is better for a home PC. It seems that the big part of the linux movement presently is aimed at developing nations where it will reduce the hardware requirements. The extra cost does not mean that much to the industrialized nations that it will make a tremendous change within the next two years at least. So until this momentum has truly materialized to a large scale I don’t see the benefit of using linux over windows unless you have a specific purpose or specific peer group that will make it advantageous for you to use linux and perhaps the open source software that’s written for linux.
Oh I forgot to mention another cool thing I like about Windows Vista is the dictation capability given by speech recognition. Which is actually what I used to write most of this post. You can control the desktop too but it becomes a bit clumsy unless you really want hands-free operation for everything.0 -
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Hello All,
I am doing my Client Research Project (Thesis) on "The differences between Open Source Solutions and Commercial IT Solutions"
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