|Old Hardware: Linux triumphs were Windows dosen't

mach1982

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/modern-os-on-ancient-hardware-41162

Eliot Rosewater

Linux superior to Windows? I'm speechless!

BopNiblets

Sometimes better with new Hardware too, for example: brand new HP B110a wireless printer, Linux Mint 9 found it and downloaded a compatible driver in no time and was printing a few seconds later.
Windows 7 tried the same thing and failed!
There was a software CD of course but I'm giving the win to Linux.

Bugzy

so whats hes trying to say linux is for the cheap people who dont want to buy new hardware??

Mathiasb

Bugzy wrote: »

so whats hes trying to say linux is for the cheap people who dont want to buy new hardware??

Of course, everybody should buy new hardware all the time, especially when there is no need for it!

/sarcasm

Herbal Deity

As someone who ran Windows 98 and then Windows XP on a Pentium 3 500Mhz with about 384MB RAM and a 20 GB primary Hard drive between the years 1999 and 2009 I can safely say that the claims in that article are a load of bollocks.

Why is Linux use so often a fricking píssing contest with Windows?

Mathiasb

Herbal Deity wrote: »

Why is Linux use so often a fricking píssing contest with Windows?

It isn't.

You get your typical 12 year old fanboys everywhere, who'll turn whatever topic into a pissing contest.

murphaph

I have a laptop with a dodgy graphics chipset. Under windows 7 the whole taskbar used to freeze and the windows used to flicker like mad, leaving it pretty unusable at times. Under linux it does flicker, but only for a split second and then it's fine again...also seems to happen very infrequently compared to windows, or perhaps I'm just not noticing.

Thought it was interesting how the 2 OS's handled the hardware fault tbh.

Mathiasb

murphaph wrote: »

I have a laptop with a dodgy graphics chipset. Under windows 7 the whole taskbar used to freeze and the windows used to flicker like mad, leaving it pretty unusable at times. Under linux it does flicker, but only for a split second and then it's fine again...also seems to happen very infrequently compared to windows, or perhaps I'm just not noticing.

Thought it was interesting how the 2 OS's handled the hardware fault tbh.

That might be a case of Win7 stressing the GPU more than Linux in your case, which would make the problem more severe under Windows.

Herbal Deity

murphaph wrote: »

I have a laptop with a dodgy graphics chipset. Under windows 7 the whole taskbar used to freeze and the windows used to flicker like mad, leaving it pretty unusable at times. Under linux it does flicker, but only for a split second and then it's fine again...also seems to happen very infrequently compared to windows, or perhaps I'm just not noticing.

Thought it was interesting how the 2 OS's handled the hardware fault tbh.

<insert example of one time where Windows handled something better than Linux here>

Different OSs have different strengths and weaknesses and different people have different preferences. Nit picking and trying to make a case for why one is better than the other is just silly.

Bugzy

Mathiasb wrote: »

Of course, everybody should buy new hardware all the time, especially when there is no need for it!

/sarcasm

yeah agree then we would still be playing pacman like games cause all the developers would be making sega mega drive type of games

murphaph

Herbal Deity wrote: »

<insert example of one time where Windows handled something better than Linux here>

Different OSs have different strengths and weaknesses and different people have different preferences. Nit picking and trying to make a case for why one is better than the other is just silly.

I like Windows. I was just relaying my experience of Linux on older equipment. I'm using my Windows 7 laptop to type this now!:)

Bugzy

and im using W7 Ultimate on the laptop have Ubuntu installed at the side but it doesn't work cause it doesn't support my dual graphics card

murphaph

One thing is for sure though....Linux has come a long way since I last used it. Ubuntu (with it's faults) is a million times easier to use than Linux used to be.

I added my wireless network printer there a few mins ago with about 5 clicks. Linux wasn't like that in the old days. Ubuntu (my only experience with "modern" Linux) is actually something I could imagine a fairly computer illiterate person being able to use.

Having said that...I'm currently having trouble with the wireless on said laptop. Totally unreliable...works for a few mins then dead. I think I may have found a solution that involves blacklisting a driver for the Ralink chipset but it's past my bedtime now! I'll try it tomorrow. It's hard to know with this laptop if it's a hardware or a software issue.