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Windows XP Service Pack 2 Build 2082
hm_murdock:
quote:What made you switch to PC?
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Not the OS or the hardware. It was Apple, the company. If you think that MS is "evil", then you should look at Apple. They expect you to buy a new machine every year to run the recent upgrade of their OS!
BTW, "jihad" is an Arabic term, from the Quoran meaning "holy war".
Aloone_Jonez:
After installing SP2 after it taking nearly 24 hours to download on my shitty 5k/second connection, everything is well, it seems to be good open office seems to run a bit faster. Windows took a bit longer to boot up the first time as it still needed to finish the installation, but even after a reboot it still took a bit longer, I rebooted again and it got faster, this is an example of the pre-emptive booting feature in action. I would say that overall SP2 has been a sucess.
Linux vs Windows driver support.
I was arguing that when hardware companies don't provide details of their products to Linux driver developers it often results in semi-functional drivers. When I mean semi-functional I don't mean bad as in system fucking up bad, I mean it works but some of the important features are missing, for example a graphics driver that doesn't support the hardware accelerator. Bad Linux drivers are often closed source and the company doesn't put the same amount of time and effort into their Linux driver as most people use Windows.
Open source Linux drivers where the manufacture has either released their hardware details or written the driver themselves, are often better than Windows drivers due to the usual open source advantages that you are all aware of.
Windows drivers are normally quite good, MS releases most of the Windows API, I would dare say that they're too honest and also release all the exploits and bugs too. MS' monopoly position forces manufactures to write drivers for Windows and as they want to keep their market share the quality of the driver is as important as the hardware. There is no reason why any manufacture would release good Mac drivers and poor Windows drivers. I would suspect that this situation is more likely the other way round, because of MS' monopoly they would be more likely to spend more time developing Windows drivers.
Oh, as I mentioned hidden APIs:
Often some APIs are hidden because they are only called by Windows, and if MS published them and developers used them, it would screw up compatibility even more, as they might not be used by future Windows versions. If MS released them it would mean that they would have to be included in all future versions, thus creating more bloat and legacy code problems.
I wouldn't be surprised if Mac OS X has hidden APIs and functions. You have a look at the instruction set for the 8086 and many of it's successors and you will find many
hm_murdock:
OS X will never come to x86 PC because it would kill Apple's hardware sales. While they sell more iPods by volume than Macs, they still make a much higher profit on computers than they do MP3 players.
WMD:
quote:Originally posted by JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder:
Not the OS or the hardware. It was Apple, the company. If you think that MS is "evil", then you should look at Apple. They expect you to buy a new machine every year to run the recent upgrade of their OS!
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This seems odd to me. A lot of people talk about how OS X keeps getting faster. You're the only person I hear saying it gets slower.
I think your iMac just sucks or something. I mean, a G3 500mhz machine with no fan... :D Just kidding. ;)
hm_murdock:
but it has convection cooling :-D
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