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gstoneberg:
Good luck on that Mac. My older brother sure loves the Macs and we used to have a fruit computer vs UNIX debate every time we saw each other. Mac OS-X stopped that and put us on the same side so to speak.
Actually, it doesn't. I have yet to create a directory or a file using the command line on my Ubuntu laptop. It has a graphics display of folders similar to windows explorer and I've used it to create all the folders I've needed. I could use vi if I wanted, but so far at home I've used openoffice or the graphics text editor. Like everybody else, at my core I'm lazy. After working on computers all day, every day, when I get home I just want to relax and browse the NET before heading out to the shop. If Windows did it better/faster than Ubuntu I'd have that loaded, but Ubuntu is faster, easier and doesn't get viruses. Incidentally, I haven't used emacs since about 1995, but I sure used to love using it. Alas, I got tired of having to load it every time I installed unix. I do use vi heavily when I'm doing web programming, but then I'm over on my web server and, just like my windows PC at work, my Ubuntu PC at home is just the conduit to the server. I honestly don't do much of that anymore as I'm learning C# and .NET these days. I haven't tried PCLinuxOS either.
I don't mean to hijack this thread. I have no experience with Windows7. Even at work we don't yet have it. My wife's laptop is getting long in the tooth so I suspect we'll get some experience here soon. I sure hope it's better than XP, I don't even use the word Vista.
George
Justin Snyder:
If you are going to run windows –and for most people it is the best idea– Windows7 is definitely the way to go.
George, what version are you running. I just looked at the 10.10beta and it looks nothing like what we were using. I don't know what version of ubuntu we were running on our virtual machines in my IT classes. We run about 10 virtual machines but 9 are cloned from the first and it was downloaded from the college server, not an Ubuntu forum. I wonder if they had the GUI partially disabled because we still had to do most of our work from the command line. I hate VI because of its modes. The version I have on my VM at home I tunneled in and cloned from the school. I only use Ubuntu for programming because it never crashes like windows does.
gstoneberg:
I'm running 10.04. I don't do betas anymore. My desktop looks just like the desktop picture on the website. Sounds to me like you don't have the same GUI I do. That's too bad, it really makes it a no-brainer.
But, like you say, Windows is the best choice for most people in the world. I'm glad Windows7 is an improvement.
George
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