Comments on: Vista, Ubuntu, Mac, Windows 7… what to do?

By: Roman Balick

Roman Balick — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:58:00 +0000

Win 7 is better OS now, I like it a lot. OBDII scanner

By: Techhelper111

Techhelper111 — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:22:00 +0000

For me Mac OSX wins hands down.

By: Bronx Lawyers

Bronx Lawyers — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:58:28 +0000

I switch to Ubuntu last year and I have been so pleased with the stability and ease of us of this operating system. I am thinking about going mac so that virtual ware sound interesting. thank you

By: TCM

TCM — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:53:27 +0000

I finally made the switch to make and with virtual box which is free i am running XP and Unbuntu. I tell you the best i have ever seen XP run is on my mack book pro. How silly is that!

By: Max@World Travel

Max@World Travel — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:33:11 +0000

Vista did get lots of criticism but I think if you use Vista on New Hardware it is great. But I will still prefer to use Win 7 after testing it for past 2 months.

I have already stopped using my Mac notebook and I am waiting for Notebook with Windows 7.

By: Baby_bear

Baby_bear — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:47:05 +0000

I’m testing windows 7 now and now what? I’m satisfied! So far so good. It works much faster as XP and all programs looks working just fine. Will keep testing

By: Ryan @ In Croydon

Ryan @ In Croydon — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:51:39 +0000

I had alot of grief with windows vista myself so i just found the best thing for me to do was just to down grade back to windows xp

By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:23:34 +0000

I’m now running Ubuntu and Windows side-by-side in my work environment. It’s great because I get the best of both worlds. I am using Synergy to have one keyboard and mouse to operate both. I love it!

I still prefer editing on E editor, e is being ported to Linux, but it is still extremely buggy and it’s not really working out for me. I can run e on windows to edit my files, but I’ve found Samba to be too slow, NFS is quirky with support from windows and I tend to have permissions issues. FTP seems to be the fastest method, but file changes don’t sync both ways. I find myself using gedit more for convenience, but I still prefer e.

I’ve found meld to be a good visual diff tool and works great with git.

Speaking of git, it seems works much better in linux (obviously)

Not really using SVN in my work environment. Still considering whether to move personal SVN repos to git.

Dropped Mozy a long time ago for Jungle Disk.

Windows search doesn’t compare to the awesomeness of grep.

By: shae@Linux Forum

shae@Linux Forum — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:13:01 +0000

There are several nice text editors in Linux to try. Plus gedit also supports plugins so it is hard not to find an editor you might like. What is the one you are currently using?

Photoshop, depending on the version, works well in Wine. There is also GIMP for smaller tasks.

I believe there is some sort of visual diff program, but it escapes me now.

There are Linux compatible backup services available. (Jungle Disk)

There are several different SVN clients in Linux to choose from. Surely you can find one you like!

Setting up LAMP for web development is not too bad.

Unfortunately, I cannot think of a replacement for GoToMeeting

I believe IE7 (at least its rendering engine) works on ie4linux.

Google Chrome has a developmental linux build almost complete as well as chromium daily snapshots. It will be released soon, I think.

MS Office works in Wine for the most part. It is reported to work well in Crossover.

I do not know much about iTunes, sorry.

I do not know much about WMC, sorry. But there are options in Linux that might provide that functionality easily.

This is truly a crappy part about Linux. Hardware is sometimes tough to work with. Stick with HP and you are usually alright.

Once drivers for my model come out I may give Windows 7 another go, but Linux is really nice and I think people should give it a try and consider dual booting.

By: Mark@summerlin homes

Mark@summerlin homes — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:48:47 +0000

For Photoshop, GIMP is the alternative in Linux and I think Google Chrome has also got an unofficial version of Linux made by some other developers. I don’t use Vista, I use XP and dual boot with Linux Mint 7 (Based on Ubuntu Jaunty). It has got extra tools which you won’t find in Ubuntu, you can always look for Linux Mint if you ever want to come back to Linux .