OS doesn't want to wake up

[slofox]

Did they charge you something stupid to do that?

Good its fixed

The minimum service charge of $37.50. Even I could afford that. Just.. NOW, back to Crysis 2...

[iYRe]

I think I did mention RAM somewhere along the way

[ellipsis]

lost my Mac in the first earthquake...my son set me up with a pc and showed around the windows world...a whole year of time wasting, waiting, freezing screens,glitches, screaming and hair pulling...back with a new Mac for six weeks now...plain sailing, no shit, fast as and so simple....get a Mac....I await the derisory from beyond....

[ducatilover]

lost my Mac in the first earthquake...my son set me up with a pc and showed around the windows world...a whole year of time wasting, waiting, freezing screens,glitches, screaming and hair pulling...back with a new Mac for six weeks now...plain sailing, no shit, fast as and so simple....get a Mac....I await the derisory from beyond....

I run a Win7 PC, but, a mate has a MacBook Pro and I love it. OSX is brilliant, they're generally very simple and fast.
But, my 2 core hyper-threaded thingy-bob cost me a grand total of nothing and it's fast, quiet and problem free, so I'm happy.

[steve_t]

...get a Mac....I await the derisory from beyond....

As requested

[Brian d marge]

Somebody has to do this


Linux ,

free stable no viruses ,,,,,,blah blah


never looked back

Stephen

ps why would you use windows and why is it so popular ???

[pete376403]

Somebody has to do this


Linux ,

free stable no viruses ,,,,,,blah blah


never looked back

Stephen

ps why would you use windows and why is it so popular ???

Cos way back when IBM started sellingt the first PCs Bill Gates did a deal that got MS DOS included with every PC.
In order for every other PC maker to be "IBM compatible" the more or less had to offer MS DOS as well.
The rest is history.

[SMOKEU]

ps why would you use windows and why is it so popular ???

I like linux and have used Ubuntu and Mint for a while, but it still doesn't natively support Battlefield 3 or most other games I like to play...

[Brian d marge]

I like linux and have used Ubuntu and Mint for a while, but it still doesn't natively support Battlefield 3 or most other games I like to play...

Have the same problems with engineering software ,

Cant understand it , if I make software I would want it to be available to as many people as possible , in the early day not many were using Linux but now ..... must be a different story surely !

Stephen

[Gremlin]

if I make software I would want it to be available to as many people as possible

Uh.... so that's why they made it for Windows?

If you only have the money/time for one OS, then obviously the largest percentage of people still use Windows

[Brian d marge]

Uh.... so that's why they made it for Windows?

If you only have the money/time for one OS, then obviously the largest percentage of people still use Windows

missed point , more and more are drifting away , an yet the uptake by software makers seems slow , the french are one exception , ( with the software I use )

Stephen

[sil3nt]

Easy to develop software for windows where the money is. Why waste time developing for an OS that isn't going to bring in many dollars?

[imdying]

Have the same problems with engineering software ,

Cant understand it , if I make software I would want it to be available to as many people as possible , in the early day not many were using Linux but now ..... must be a different story surely !

Stephen

Linux desktop usage hovers around 5%, although it's in downward trend at the moment. MacOS has been ahead of Linux for the last 5 years, so that'd be the place you'd start porting.

[imdying]

missed point , more and more are drifting away

From Windows? No they're not. Most of the drifting is from Linux to MacOS.

[avgas]

Cos way back when IBM started sellingt the first PCs Bill Gates did a deal that got MS DOS included with every PC.
In order for every other PC maker to be "IBM compatible" the more or less had to offer MS DOS as well.
The rest is history.

Using your history books the English would have conquered the world in 20 days.

While the "PC" side of things was usually DOS/Windows......business sales was a different beast
For IBM it was:
OS-2 warp........1990's
IBM LINUX.........1990's-2000's
IBM/DELL UBUNTU's....2000's

For a while (about 5 years) Dell was selling more PC's with Linux that HP/Compaq was selling thin-clients.

Not to mention Novell, SUN, NEXT-G......

Was quite a thorn in Gates's side. And I am a DOS/Winows fan.
People use windows because all the training programs are based around this. It was a fantastic thing microsoft figured out in the early days that destroyed their competition. But in business sales - it was a free for all as companies could afford to do free training for a 10,000 computer rollout.