On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 08:47:27AM +0000, Joe wrote: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 01:28:11 -0500 > "Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com" <litt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > What followed XP was Vista, and who would do that to themselves. In my > > opinion (not that I'm an expert on Windows), Windows 7 wasn't much > > better. And Windows 8 is a confusing mess. I wouldn't upgrade from XP > > either, unless it was to Linux or BSD. > > In the interests of balance, most people get their ideas about new > Windows versions from 'journalists'. Vista has its problems, the main > one being its insistence on running with zero free memory, filling the > machine with anything it thinks you might want to use, and therefore > being slow to open new documents. Windows 7 is enormously better and > quicker, Vista was effectively a beta Windows 7, released before it was > ready.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Linux also use all available memory? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140307110448.GB9047@tal