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Originally Posted by MSD
I've heard from a few people that Windows 7, after a bit of tweaking, will run faster than XP did at minimum system specs. Vista's reputation will never recover even though it works fine now; the only problem is that OEMs insist on putting it on barebones systems then loading them up with bloatware until it bogs down to the point of uselessness. Linux/Unix? Unless you need to do something Windows can't do, what's the point in giving up convenience and compatibility for daily use?
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Win7 tweaked is faster then XP in some benchmarks, but for the games I play XP is still faster.
Depends on what your using your system for is what defines compatible. My wife uses her system mostly for web browsing, email, listening to music or watching videos. It has FreeBSD on it, 3.11 I believe. There are many programs out there for what she wants a computer for ,so thats a compatible system in my books.
If your into gaming then no, unix is not really compatible even though Wine and GnuWin32 have come very long way in the last few years.
Because it's running a nix OS I don't have to worry about 99% of the adware/virii out there so I don't have to have a virus checker running all the time, don't have to check for trojans, rootkits, adware/spyware etc. I have her on a limited account and almost nothing she can do will harm the OS or the main installed programs, try that on windows.
To prove a point to a friend of mine I installed FreeBSD on a system, updated it, turned OFF the firewall and used it as a my gateway for 3 months on a rogers cable account. At the end of the test it was virus free, backdoor/trojan free, still had only the accounts and programs I put there myself, basically it was still secure after 3 months without a firewall or virus scanner.
Now as to convenience, again thats a slippery term. I find it very convenient because I do almost no maintenance on her machine. She can still install almost everything she wants without a administer or root account. Mind you when I do have to wander over to her machine it's almost never a click click pause, there you go honey experience but then I enjoy compiling a sweet kernel and doing a build world every 4 or 8 months not everyones cup of tea though.