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gamefreak
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| Wonder, Has anyone actually used Win ME on a home computer for at least 2 years. Or are you guys just jumping the media bangwagon thats 8 years old already. |
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Bunni
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Oh yeah, I used it, my husband used it...we helped other people using it. I still find it on computers people bring me to fix from time to time.
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kip
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| Thatmew wrote: | I had to erase to uninstall to upgrade from Windows ME, and it really was incompatible with the machine I was using.
But, a while after that, I accidentally broke that hard drive by dropping in on concrete.  And it contained...lots of good games. I think the read write head was broken, and if the platters could be salvaged somehow, and rebuilt into a new hardrive, that would be grand. |
They can be, but it'll cost ya a pretty penny. There's a company called Drive Savers. Pretty much, if you can get it ON that drive, they can get it OFF.
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carturo222
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| My brother insisted on installing that useless crap called Windows ME as soon as it was launched. We happily went back to 98SE in about two months, and in fact I continued using 98SE until this year, when I finally had to make the change to XP for work reasons. But I vow I'll avoid Vista for as long as I can. |
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Paddy789
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:53 am Post subject: |
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| OSX Leopard. |
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Fuzzy
Ack! Thbbbt!
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:49 am Post subject: |
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| carturo222 wrote: | | My brother insisted on installing that useless crap called Windows ME as soon as it was launched. We happily went back to 98SE in about two months, and in fact I continued using 98SE until this year, when I finally had to make the change to XP for work reasons. But I vow I'll avoid Vista for as long as I can. |
Considering the newly discovered DEP security flaw in vista(and XP too I would guess), as well as the gifar debacle, vista may be a floater already.
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gamefreak
I don't have a monopoly, I'm just competitive
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| Paddy789 wrote: | | OSX Leopard. |
That's one of the best Operating Systems on a mac. Why didn't you pick something like OS9. |
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Paddy789
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I liked OS9.
Leopard and OSX in general is too simplified and condescending, it makes me feel like I'm some idiot that can't use computers since it's impossible to tweak by normal means. I had no problems with it though, but I don't know if I'll ever like it.
I like Vista, oddly enough... I had no problems with it so far. Using it for almost a year and I had no major issues, SP1 made it even quicker than XP too. |
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gamefreak
I don't have a monopoly, I'm just competitive
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| Paddy789 wrote: | I liked OS9.
Leopard and OSX in general is too simplified and condescending, it makes me feel like I'm some idiot that can't use computers since it's impossible to tweak by normal means. I had no problems with it though, but I don't know if I'll ever like it.
I like Vista, oddly enough... I had no problems with it so far. Using it for almost a year and I had no major issues, SP1 made it even quicker than XP too. |
Vista is pretty good I just which is had more compatibility with hardware. I bought a 4 GB Sandisk Flash Drive that would work fine with XP but not with Vista. The flash drive even said it was vista compatible. Oh well, At least Vista is more compatible than Linux. |
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lau
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| gamefreak wrote: | | Paddy789 wrote: | I liked OS9.
Leopard and OSX in general is too simplified and condescending, it makes me feel like I'm some idiot that can't use computers since it's impossible to tweak by normal means. I had no problems with it though, but I don't know if I'll ever like it.
I like Vista, oddly enough... I had no problems with it so far. Using it for almost a year and I had no major issues, SP1 made it even quicker than XP too. |
Vista is pretty good I just which is had more compatibility with hardware. I bought a 4 GB Sandisk Flash Drive that would work fine with XP but not with Vista. The flash drive even said it was vista compatible. Oh well, At least Vista is more compatible than Linux. |
I guess you just said why people throwing Vista off their new machines, and upgrading to XP or even better, Linux.
Vista is far less compatible with anything/everything than Linux. You really should get your facts straight. Other than the few clandestine deals MS does with manufacturers, to not release any information on how their hardware functions, which just delays things a little, you are much more likely to find it working under Linux than any MS product.
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gamefreak
I don't have a monopoly, I'm just competitive
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| lau wrote: | | gamefreak wrote: | | Paddy789 wrote: | I liked OS9.
Leopard and OSX in general is too simplified and condescending, it makes me feel like I'm some idiot that can't use computers since it's impossible to tweak by normal means. I had no problems with it though, but I don't know if I'll ever like it.
I like Vista, oddly enough... I had no problems with it so far. Using it for almost a year and I had no major issues, SP1 made it even quicker than XP too. |
Vista is pretty good I just which is had more compatibility with hardware. I bought a 4 GB Sandisk Flash Drive that would work fine with XP but not with Vista. The flash drive even said it was vista compatible. Oh well, At least Vista is more compatible than Linux. |
I guess you just said why people throwing Vista off their new machines, and upgrading to XP or even better, Linux.
Vista is far less compatible with anything/everything than Linux. You really should get your facts straight. Other than the few clandestine deals MS does with manufacturers, to not release any information on how their hardware functions, which just delays things a little, you are much more likely to find it working under Linux than any MS product. |
Well not a lot of companies waste time writing Linux Drivers. Since all the projects are Open-Source they can't offer as big proceits to the hardware vendors like Microsoft and Mac can. If not enough money goes to the R&D Department at a hardware company they are not going to bother porting existing drivers or coding new ones. Example, Nvidia isn't going to bother making linux graphics drivers because they don't get as much money from an Open-Source project as they do from a corporation like Microsoft and Apple. |
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SamuraiSaxen
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Windows ME
The worst part is that I'm using it right now 
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Keith
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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Windows 95A - NO FAT32 support until version B
Windows Vista (6.0)
CP/M
No problems for using Millennium Edition for me, I used it for a long time then someone decided to "throw" away my computer because it kept crashing without letting me fix it as I "KNEW" what the problem was but I couldn't fix it because I didn't have the money
Ubuntu 6.04 - No way of configuring the boot loader so I can multi-boot properly ver. 8.06 is all good though
SuSE 6.1 wasn't very good for a beginner like me at the time 6x CD'S
When someone says "Windowx XP" which version? XP Home, XP Pro or Windows XP x64 Edition ?? |
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lau
Quinquaginta Novem! Male Gee-knee-us + silly bits.
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| gamefreak wrote: | | lau wrote: | | ... You really should get your facts straight. ... |
Well not a lot of companies waste time writing Linux Drivers. Since all the projects are Open-Source they can't offer as big proceits to the hardware vendors like Microsoft and Mac can. If not enough money goes to the R&D Department at a hardware company they are not going to bother porting existing drivers or coding new ones. Example, Nvidia isn't going to bother making linux graphics drivers because they don't get as much money from an Open-Source project as they do from a corporation like Microsoft and Apple. |
All wrong. You seem unaware that Nvidia have always produced Linux drivers. It is a pity that their drivers are not to be made open source (as of a couple of months back), given that the ATI drivers are already open source.
Where companies do not produce Linux drivers in-house, there are queues of programmers waiting to use the hardware details to extend existing drivers - which is far preferable to multiple manufacturers producing their proprietary, buggy, feature poor drivers.
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Paddy789
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I've yet to see someone make Linux drivers for any of my audio/MIDI interfaces. Honestly, I can't make music on Ubuntu because of it.
Even if there is loads of drivers, Linux is that much of a pain in the ARSE to use that it's probably nearly impossible to install them. This is why most people don't use it these days, it's not user friendly enough yet. 
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