Re: OT: I've had it with Windows - got Linux working

Mike Rieves wrote:

"Jim Carr" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Ht3ai.170658$mJ1.39573@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Les Cargill" <lcargill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:46688714$0$16743$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Jim Carr wrote:

Guess what? We're getting there. I'll wager market penetration of
the Mackie plastic speakers at better than 50% around here.

And that's a good thing since 75% of the people out there are better off with the simple, bundled gear.


Windows simply affords the peripheral developer the opportunity
to keep his interfaces properitary. In reality, this does nothing
at all for his bottom line, but his lawyers know they can sink NRE under
the guise of building intellectual capital, and that must be protected.

Huh?


Rot. I'll have dozens and dozens of windows open at once at work. XP hardly ever needs rebooting.

But it *does* need rebooting, doesn't it? It shouldn't ever. Having multiple windows open is meaningless anyway. Having 20 Word and Excel documents open at once is not asking the machine to do a million things at once. If you can run a complex game on your expensive graphics card, edit video, mix audio, retrieve and edit pics from your digital camera on your wireless keyboard/mouse/networked computer every single day all the while opening and closing your typical Office products and surfing the Internet yet *not* have to reboot regularly, I'll buy you a beer.

Just because *you* don't experience a lot of problems doesn't mean that other people don't. Obviously, they do. The thing is you hardly ever see someone who has dedicated their machine to a particular function having problems. By contrast that friend who always needs some help every month or so is invariably the guy installing the latest software and assorted gadgets. That's my point. Windows has gotten better, but it still struggles at times.

Does your company have an IT person on staff? If so do they have anyone on staff to take care of all of the rest of the electronics (phones, copiers, faxes, refrigerators, etc)?


I agree, you can use a computer for lots of business stuff and/or surfing the Web at the same time because a computer can do those sorts of things with its eyes shut and one hand behind its back. However, as Jim says, try running a graphics intensive game at the same time you are compiling a large animation file to video, and see how quickly the system slows down to a crawl or locks up, requiring a reboot.

That is very true, because the Doze kernel is a big steenky
hunk of sewage. Nasty. Well-implemented apps do not suck up the
whole machine.


Computers are cheap now, most folks can afford to buy more than one. If you're wanting to put together a home studio, a dedicated DAW computer should be a part of your GAS. :-)



Yup.

--
Les Cargill
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