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Dual Boot Is The Answer

cpt_slog@... 28th May 2009

What a well thought out and clear post. I agree with you on almost every point.

I too was with MS DOS and Windows back from the start. Firstly it bugged me that Microsoft kept getting little things wrong; like promising the moon with every new release and I was left wondering just how much they started to believe their own hype. Then it annoyed the hell that they couldn't get the simple things right.

Back in the dark ages with MS-DOS Microsoft couldnt even (or couldn't be bothered) supply an undelete utility.

Then when MS-DOS 6.22 came along they simply used Symantec's utility. Same with defrag and anti-vir.

for a time I was happy with Win3.1 running under DR DOS 6.0 (DR DOS was infinately superior to anything Microsoft sold) until all of a sudden after Windows went to version 3.11, and for an inexplicable reason Windows wouldn't work under DR DOS. strange that, NOT!

Now I see in Win7, the babboons at Microsoft who care so little about users, have let the flaw whereby a renamed extension (as in *.txt.exe) will cause the same problems we've had since Win95. Don't they learn? Don't they care?

Anyway back when the Hardy Herron release of Ubuntu came along I set up a dual boot system and was amazed at how good an OS can be. When all is said and done, Windows is ONLY an OS. Anything meaningful you want to do on a computer happens above the level of the OS. But when an OS is slow, a resource hog, buggy, then it affects every application.

Under Ubuntu I could get things done, swap between multiple applications with ridiculous ease. As you know GIMP, Open Office, Pigeon, Firefox etc under Ubuntu fly.

Once WUBI came out, the dual boot between Windows and Ubuntu became even easier.

Vista died a long time ago, it's just that the wingnuts at Redmond refuse to believe it. Win 7 is still hyped as the saviour from everything from Swine Flu to Global Warming and lots of people will happily accept again (for the 4th, 5th, 65th time.....) that this latest release fixes everything before it. It doesn't.

My laptop is a few years old, and came with an OEM version of Vista Professional. I used it for a year and a half before frustation finally led me to blow ait away and replace it with a locked down solid version of XP Pro SP3. while not top of the line (dual core 1.73GHZ 2GB RAM) a limping Vista system screams like a raped ape under XP. Or Ubuntu.

My advice to all Windows users is to dual boot with Ubuntu. Use it for even just a week or so, and compare it to Windows. To call Aero eye-candy after seeing what Compiz fusion can do is rather funny.

Win7 will largely fail for some of the same reasons Vista did. The 32 bit version doesn't do any more than Win XP did and in the current financial melt down not too many businesses can justify the expense.