On 28/12/12 12:41, Andy Braben wrote: > > > On 28 December 2012 12:09, Nigel Verity <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Dear All > > I'm one of those people who have tried Unity and concluded that > it's just not for them. That's why I use Xfce. However, over the > last couple of days I've been helping out a friend by setting up a > new laptop running Windows 8 and clearing down her old machine > running Vista, ready for selling. All I can say is that Vista is > dreadful, and Windows 8 far far worse. Given me Unity any day! > > > I have set eyes on and had a play with Windows 8 and have never ever > seen anything so badly designed. It really is the most awful system to > be productive on. It is set up to be able to go directly to Facebook > or Twitter etc, but if that doesn't work because of a network problem > with the computer, don't ask me where the settings are, because I > couldn't find them! > > You like Xfce, I prefer Unity - that's fine - the power of Free Open > Source Software. > > > > Just letting off steam ....... > > > We will all be able to let off Steam on Ubuntu soon, thanks to Valve > not being able to work with locked down Windows 8. > > > Nige > > > > > Regards, > Andy > > I have steam it needs an updated nvidia driver, so good luck with getting it working given the issues that nvidia can cause,
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