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|Old Hardware: Linux triumphs were Windows dosen't

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  • #2
    Eliot Rosewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭Eliot Rosewater


    Linux superior to Windows? I'm speechless! ;)


  • #3
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭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! :p
    There was a software CD of course but I'm giving the win to Linux.


  • #4
    Bugzy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 85 ✭✭Bugzy


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


  • #5
    Mathiasb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭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


  • #6
    Herbal Deity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭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?


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  • #7
    Mathiasb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭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.


  • #8
    murphaph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,148 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #9
    Mathiasb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭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.


  • #10
    Herbal Deity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭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.


  • #11
    Bugzy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 85 ✭✭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


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  • #12
    murphaph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,148 ✭✭✭✭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!:)


  • #13
    Bugzy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 85 ✭✭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 :(


  • #14
    murphaph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,148 ✭✭✭✭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.


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