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Vista brings back memories of Win95

by grichardt May 1, 2009 11:55AM PDT

I had forgotten about the freezes and lockups of Win95 until Vista. But this new fangled hardware lacks the reset button that enabled me to instantly (well almost) reboot Win95. If I leave my computer up and running overnight, I usually come back to a locked up machine and lockups when running programs are all too frequent. Then I have to power off in order to reboot. I can't wait for Windows 7 to be released. I would already be gone to Linux if I could get it to do the things I need it to. But the learning curve for Linux is too high for this casual user. Perhaps the same could be said for Vista

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by FrankQC May 1, 2009 2:50PM PDT

be gone to Linux if I could get it to do the things I need it to

Like what?

the learning curve for Linux is too high for this casual user

So true. Been using Linux here for a while and recently I decided to use Linux instead of Windows to see what would happen -- so far so good. No problems.

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"learning curve for Linux is too high for this casual user"

by r. proffitt Forum moderator May 1, 2009 9:41PM PDT

"the learning curve for Linux is too high for this casual user"

That's sadly a myth that I hope continues or dies. I'm agnostic about OS and OS WARS.

Let me offer this link -> http://tips.oncomputers.info/archives2004/0401/2004-Jan-11.htm

That was 5 years ago and people found themselves to be able to use Linux them without any issue at all. Today's versions are even better.
Bob

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