Re: Acer Laptop with Vista

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A friend bought an Acer laptop with Vista and brought to me to remove
the crapware that Acer had loaded. When it booted up, it offered to make
a recovery DVD. It took ONE HOUR to burn two DVDs. Naturally, Microshit
had paid Acer to put Office 2007 Trial, Connector, and about four other
Office products. That took a half an hour to remove. McAfee auto
installed itself while I was burning the recovery disks and then
insisted on a reboot to complete the install! Not a peep from UAC until
I started uninstalling things and then it went bananas. At this point,
my friend said, this Vista sucks and can you replace it with Ubuntu.
That took less than an hour and, unlike when it had the bloated Vista on
it, the lap top now is as fast as Frank can lie, insult, curse and spew
bluster.

Alias

Your friend was fast at this. I too have an Acer, but my HP and Sony are
no different. Takes at least a day to get them right. Mind you only the
Acer is Vista and Vista does take longer.

Replacing it with Ubuntu or Fedora takes much less time. Which reminds
me a new version of Fedora is out!

I've never tried Fedora. What makes it different (better?) than Ubuntu?

Alias

Ubuntu is probably the best for a desktop/laptop and for most users of
Linux. Ubuntu even has better driver support and more end user tools
precompiled. But if you like servers, hard core Linux type, want to write
code and do serious development then Fedora is the one. Fedora is better
geared towards backend and development, Ubuntu is better geared towards the
front end.

And unlike MS-Windows, you can develop on Fedora knowing if you want,
porting to Solaris, another UNIX or another Linux is a trivial process. In
fact, sometimes with no effort at all, often being as simple as copy in,
compile and done.

And since I am not a MS facist droid, I run them all (Including crapista).
In fact, the only real usefull use I have for Vista is running VirtualBox.
In VirtualBox I can have Solaris, varieties of Linux and BSD running at
once. Expecially useful in iteroperabilitiy testing and configuration. For
example, getting them all to autheticate using a common LDAP.


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