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| by Stan Beer | |
| Thursday, 22 November 2007 | |
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Page 2 of 3 As far as bugs are concerned, within hours of using Vista, I had already run into a couple. One, which hasn't been fixed since my XP days, involves the database I use to update our daily mailing list and how it interacts with Excel. To cut a long story short, each day the system hangs and refuses to log me out of the database when the task is completed. I can live with that because the system eventually catches up and logs out of the database after about 15 minutes. Featured Whitepaper
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What I found perplexing, however, is why when I inserted a DVD, Windows Media Player couldn't play it. Why did I have to go to Home Media Center to play it? Why did I have to configure sound settings to hear anything at all? All my hardware is stock standard Intel chipset, Nvidia GPU, Gigabyte motherboard - why isn't it all plug and play for Vista. Why couldn't I simply install Vista over XP and have all the applications simply transfer over like they do with the Mac? Critcisms aside, at least Vista ran my DVD without any major dramas. And, provided I used Firefox (especially the new version 3.0 beta), surfing the web was lightning fast. Unfortunately, the same things could not be said for Kubuntu. In some ways, I wish that in this comparison today I was using Ubuntu instead of Kubuntu because, from my limited experience, believe it's a much better implementation of the Ubuntu distro family. I don't mind KDE on some other distros but I think the Gnome GUI suits Ubuntu better. Regardless of the interface, however, Kubuntu and Ubuntu (as much as I like it) need to pull up their socks in certain areas if they want to gain more desktop market share. CONTINUED |
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