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Battle of the Giants
Description: With Microsoft taking over the world of computing which operating system do you think is superior? Are you a linux or ... more  Battle of the Giants ... a windows man/woman? Newest Review: ... on getting a PC free from a dodgy source. So I took my hard-earned moolah up to PC World and bought myself a tasty blue ... more ... iMac. Yes, it's coloured, and doesn't have PCI slots. And you have to run the Mac OS. But, seeing as the Mac OS was where Windows got it's 'inspirations' from, and I have never had problems using a Mac before (once you get over the first few hurdles - but you had hurdles when you started '95. Just more of them). PCI? No need. USB... thank you! Now I am a Mac addict. Certified. Give it another ten years, and I'll have a vague resemblance of some 'pentiums' and 'windows' and a ...more |
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Battle of the Giants: Windows or Linux. Umm, neither thanks... (519 words)
by bigbtommy - written on 20.09.01 (Very useful, 77 readings)
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Am I a hardware dude? or a software dude? Or an engineer? Or a geek? Or a nerd? Well, I can't say I am anything. I am a user, maybe a power user. And after years of frustration of using that horrible Windows 95 and 3.1 and before that DOS, and an Amstrad with CPM, and before that a BBC running, um Basic, I decided I wanted a computer, not a maintenance task. So I said my goodbye's to Windows, but not in a train-just-flowing-away-from-the-platform-with-a-'bigbtommy'-running-along -crying-until-it's-out-of-sight. But a end-of-a-crap-date-with-a-band-toting-geek-because-all-the-cute-girls-were-gone-an ...
Windows Vs. Linux (2328 words)
by rob_writer - written on 07.09.01 (Very useful, 373 readings)
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How many people have actually heard of Linux? Or UNIX for that matter? How many people even realise that Windows isn't the only choice of operating system (OS) that your PC can run. Yes, believe it or not people, Windows is not a given, it is only one OS amongst many. It just so happens that Microsoft Windows is the most popular OS, with just about everyone using it. Or at least that's how it would appear to your average punter who walked in to their local PC World store looking for a new PC. There may be people reading this op who know their stuff and are well versed in Linux and various other OS's, but there will be just as many people who don't. ...
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