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Article #65781Re: Should I upgrade to Windows 2000??? (partly off topic)
From: elf... Donovan Rebbechi
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00
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Why do you guys crosspost to a zillion groups ? Anyways ... On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:08:19 +0200, scam...@cs.uct.ac.za wrote: >HORRIBLY overpriced. Of course you could always use Linux, which has always >had all these features anyway, but then you'd have no software support. You >just can't win ;). The "no software support" issue really depends on what you want to do with it. For my work, which revolves around programming, web publishing, and producing math articles in TeX, Linux's software support is vastly superior to that of windows. Anyone who installs Linux with the mindset that it's going to be "like windows" will get burnt ( and it raises the question -- if you want it to be "like windows", well Windows serves that purpose nicely ;-) For gaming, I still go with Win98. However, the Linux game ports are happening. The main limitation is that the 3d drivers need improvement. ( though these are getting much better ) -- Donovan
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From: elf...@panix.com (Donovan Rebbechi) Subject: Re: Should I upgrade to Windows 2000??? (partly off topic) Date: 2000/04/05 Message-ID: <slrn8emull.aeg.elflord@panix2.panix.com> X-Deja-AN: 607161510 References: <8c8n4n$20gg$1@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr> <gXRF4.416$3i1.17762@wormhole.dimensional.com> <rZ1G4.1$QB1.33@news.aa.ans.net> <rtZZ4AApSO64EwvX@robpol.demon.co.uk> <38EA67D2.17DAC4C3@cs.uct.ac.za> X-Complaints-To: ab...@panix.com X-Trace: news.panix.com 954956469 21593 166.84.0.227 (5 Apr 2000 17:41:09 GMT) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (NetBSD) NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Apr 2000 17:41:09 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit