| tlarkin |
07-27-2005 05:10 PM |
So, I just dusted off my old linux box and upgraded it to suse 9.3 professional. Which can pretty much do everything that longhorn (vista) promises and is already out, while vista will be out next year. However, I will come out and say now vista will be plain easier to use. I like the KDE desktop, but vista's gui will be plain easier to use. A friend of mine just set up a media server in his house, and this friend of mine is a mac guy. His server is a PC running windows 2003 server with terminal services. He can ssh remote desktop into the server from any machine anywhere he wants to. Then at his house he and his roomate have a pair of laptops which they can control all the media from on his server using the wireless network. He has speakers all through his house and even outside and he can play any song he wants to with his laptop and it plays through his whole house. The set up is pretty impressive, and he plans on adding on a digital receiver (wireless) to his TV so he can play any movie he wants off his server. We were playing pool in his basement like a month ago and talking about computers (we both work as IT professionals but with different companies) and he told me even though microsoft makes some dumb choices and does idiotic things they are still a good OS to run. I haven't got much play time in win server 2003 but what I did get from playing around with it I did like.
here is the thing about microsoft, they release an OS and it sucks until the first wave of patches (that happens with everything though). I remember loading the Mac OS X beta (I still have the CD!!) on my ibook back in the day and thinking to myself that apple needed to overhaul it fast otherwise it would fail. Look at where it has gotten today, the OS is cool, and I like it.
However, microsoft does make a good OS. I don't get spyware, I don't get viruses, my windows box does not crash, because I know how to use it. Same thing with my mac. I will upgrade to it and run it when it comes out, since microsoft will probably just toss me a free copy (wish apple did that, I had to buy tiger for my ibook :( ). Its like I said, microsoft takes some technology that other OSes offered a year ago, and they make it really easy to use. I love my linux box, but I could probably never switch over to linux full time.
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