On Monday, 23 January 2012 at 05:30:48 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
can they? Talk about digging one's own grave. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if Vista and Win7 (and Win8) have not only caused people to stick with XP, but also caused a lot of Win->Lin converts - I'm getting closer and closer to that myself.
Well, bought new notebook recently and decided there's no difference between migrating to win7 and linux, tried ubuntu 11 and linux mint 12, got too bad user experience with them. Linux causes high CPU load in idle mode - critical for notebooks - and that's in comparison with win7 loaded with OEM crapware. If you want vdpau (dxva for linux), you'll need nvidia driver, but its installation is poorly automated and I had to install it from nvidia site without automatic dependency resolution. Also hit one bug with Empathy IM software. So linux still seems not an option to me.
