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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	:) Hmmm... step 1 is covered, eventhough I still cannot read, not even the freaking manual, I am getting married in October this year - so don't get me started on Step 2 (actually Ms. Navis is abroad right now). I got all of the early quirks fixed : mainly, I was using a bad blend of gnome dedicated control panels, and parallel versions of compiz/beryl. Reverted to the latest version of Compiz which fixed almost all the problems I had previously - but will probably try the unstable "compiz fusion" soon. Sooo.... Right now, Worms world party works on Wine, thanks to reisio - gotta patch it further myself to fix a couple of minor quirks. All Compiz classics work like a charm : cube, water, and the various flavors of application switchers, which I find so useful - really, several desktops, two keys to switch, a dream with style. Wobbly windows are so useless... but so sexy, still. NTFS works, but read only - my bad, I was wrong when I thought it worked in write mode as well. All my usual dev tools work. Divx, Xvid, Windows Media everything, MP3, DVDs, ogg.. work like a charm in VLC media player. Firefox works perfectly - as well as Flash 9. Several Java VM run smoothly side by side, and I tried some extreme cases of Java applications that ran faster than in XP, like, a LOT faster - rendering complex fractal sets for instance. The alert you see is my "adept package manager", an update avail. notification, for the synaptics packman is broken, for some reason. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- My impressions : * multitasking is now something REAL to me, run 3 videos side by side, push the system, push further, it remains stable, all videos remain there, I can cube-rotate my desktop all the way and videos remain fluid, as well as sound. SYSTEM LAGS DO NOT EXIST IN THIS KIND OF OS. * There is nothing that I could do in Windows and cannot do here - aside a couple of game quirks. And there is nothing that does not feel better here. * updating or installing is so easy through the package managers or utilities : I wish add/remove app in Windows would prompt me with 12'000 installable apps, among which Eclipse, Firefox, etc.. * Search (locate) options work instantly in Linux, or almost. * One of my main concerns, parallel files moving, is now FAST. * Everything I/O is fast : downloads, bittorrent, file copying, burning... * Everything feels secure, and in a non-intrusive way : when I run sensitive tasks, I am prompted for the root password. Bye-bye spyware. * I am watching some youtube demos of Beryl right now for instance, have loaded "Usual suspects" in VLC. * Pet's tips make for a great reference. So, I got something way more powerful than Windows XP, more robust and faster, I wasn't really accustomed to Unix/Linux five days ago, this one is free, and the user interface blows "Aero" and Vista away - as well as early driver detection, with the exception of the ATI drivers. All this happens on a computer which did not pass the "Vista compliance test" :) ...Actually, Billy and his attempts at software are forever marked Z-- at my "customer respect-o-meter" and "human beings compliance test", for no version of Windows that I tested is anywhere near a match to how my computer feels right now - it's as if I had plugged 1GB additional Ram or a brand new motherboard. ... But as far as "Alpha" and "Omega" are concerned, I am mixed : what do you think of "Tinky Winky", "Laa Laa", "Po" and "Dipsy (king)"? Loading...
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