Vista Forum

[LaRoza]

I joined a Vista forum a while back, at http://www.vistaboard.org, but it was not very helpful. I did post this however,

http://www.vistaboard.org/windows_vista_forum/124-vista_testimonial.html#post281

Who would think that me saying Vista is bad, Ubuntu good, on a Vista forum would spark these kind of responses?

Perhaps someone could answer their questions better than me. Post your comments here and I post them there.

-edit I even got an administrator interested http://www.vistaboard.org/windows_vista_forum/120-worried_about_vista.html

[the.dark.lord]

This is GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! People actually are looking for alternatives.

[xtang]

they all want to play games

they will end up extremely dissapointed

[LaRoza]

Other posts on the forum, that I didn't know about until after posting the above show an interest in Ubuntu in general.

[smoker]

they are advertising firefox!

anyway, LaRoza, why don't you post these links and ask them to try it out, you never know:D

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

best of luck:D

[blah blah blah]

If they're worried about games suggest Nexuiz to them. In my experience it's perfect for most "non-hardcore gamers".

[forrestcupp]

they all want to play games

they will end up extremely dissapointed

Very true. I kind of wonder if the administrator was saying in a nice way that it wouldn't work. The admin obviously knows about wine because he wants to be able to run games without using wine.

Ubuntu is great, but it's not for everyone. If you hoodwink a gamer into using linux by withholding the complete truth, it will just waste a lot of their time and make them very mad. What good can that do?

[jgrabham]

One said they needed to edit photos - you didnt mention GIMP!

[VistaBoard]

Hello everyone.

I am the owner and creator of VistaBoard.org and I would like to clear a few things up.

First off, I am NOT a windows or microsoft supporter. I have been an avid Linux user for as long as I can remember, My server is even run on RedHat.

The purpose of the forum is to help the people that do use windows, thats it. Nothing more.
some people can not comprehend that there are good OS's that are free, They don't believe that
people would spend the time to make a quality product and not charge for it. Although there are many
out there.

Ubuntu appears to be a quality distro. I have yet to try it but I will be installing on one of my dual boot
machines to try it out.

Yes, I do advertise and use firefox on my windows machines. I feel it is more secure and faster than IE.

This seems to be a great informative forum. Im sure I will be asking you questions about the Ubuntu OS soon.

Thank you
Del

[ComplexNumber]

VistaBoard
feel free to ask - we will help as much as possible :)
i'm not sure if you already know, but apart from downloading a ubuntu ISO and burning it to disk, you can also order one for free(no shipping costs etc) from here (https://shipit.ubuntu.com/).

[smoker]

hi, VistaBoard, and welcome,:-)

[Dimitriid]

they all want to play games

they will end up extremely dissapointed

I wasn't. As a former windows gamer I can tell you that too many people forget that windows users do have to play around a lot to get games to work properly ( sometimes at all ). One out of every 4 games or so i tried on windows needed significant amount of setting changing ( both the app and the OS settings ) just to get a decent gaming experience. Things like extremely bad console game ports and spyware-category copy protections are becoming the norm.

So yes, getting wine to work on some games might be a bit of a challenge to a complete newbie, but you gotta look at your options:

- So many lousy console ports truly good pc native games are becoming the exception and not the norm
- Copy protection that outright turns honest users to piracy
- DRM and other such schemes. No explanations necessary here.
- Bugs: countless developers don't bother anymore. This has always been a problem but if you take into account the first points there is less and less motivation to put up with em.

I tried other distros in the past and I never really decided a complete switch. But that was because I ran into way too many issues and was simply unable to get up an running. But now I dont have to deal with winmodems anymore, now I have live CDs to troubleshoot my way out of fatal errors, not to mention way more user friendliness.

I might be the exception ( im mostly disappointed with new "consolized" pc games ) but I played ball with Microsoft one too many times and Vista+360 really made me say "there is enough working games on Linux to keep me entertained" as opposed to spending a good $800 on upgrades I do not need.

[VistaBoard]

hi, VistaBoard, and welcome,:-)

Thank you.

I will be peeking in here from time to time as I get ready to install Ubuntu on one of my box's.
I plan on evaluating the software for about 3 months, then writing a column about it on my blog on
Vistaboard. (blog not yet accessable) I will let you know when I do so.

Thanks alot.
I hope you all had a great weekend.

Vb