Windows Xp Pro?

[winter]

Quote from Triple X:

Get XP Pro. It is much better than home (more stable, better features, etc.)

I agree its better but it makes no sense to say its more stable. Its the same code.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx

 

[gnome]

Quote from winter:

Wow, that's like asking if you should change the exhaust on your car or replace it with a motorcycle.

Anyway, if you don't know why you need XP Pro then you probably don't need it. If you want to know the differences between xp pro and home you can google and get a list of features that pro has that home doesnt.

A major reason to use Pro is because it will have "extended support" for 5 years after support has ended for Home... the difference being that Home is a "consumer" application and Pro is for "business".

 

[ktmexc20]

Quote from nononsense:

Lots of choices.
Novell-SuSE is a great starter for somebody used to windoz only. In fact installing is MUCH easier than Xp + Office.

SuSE is so easy to install and maintain.

PLUS... It's extremely easy to have both Windoz and Linux on your computer, and choose which you want use at start-up. After a while you'll find, as I have, that you will rarely boot up windows (if at all) unless you happen to run into non-portable apps...

...like Jerry's QT application. Sorry Jerry, no offense to you at all, just non-portability.

If anybody wants, PM me and I'll walk you through it. People need to know how much better Linux/OpenSource sw is. Not to mention (though I will) 10,000+ sw apps for free (as in beer).

kt

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from ktmexc20:

SuSE is so easy to install and maintain.

PLUS... It's extremely easy to have both Windoz and Linux on your computer, and choose which you want use at start-up. After a while you'll find, as I have, that you will rarely boot up windows (if at all) unless you happen to run into non-portable apps...

...like Jerry's QT application. Sorry Jerry, no offense to you at all, just non-portability.

If anybody wants, PM me and I'll walk you through it. People need to know how much better Linux/OpenSource sw is. Not to mention (though I will) 10,000+ sw apps for free (as in beer).

kt

linux is probably fun for tech geeks to mess with but most of us have another choice. we can either spend hours trying to get linux to work as well as xp for all of our applications or just use xp and use all of that time for something more fun or profitable.

 

[ktmexc20]

Quote from vhehn:

linux is probably fun for tech geeks to mess with but most of us have another choice. we can either spend hours trying to get linux to work as well as xp for all of our applications or just use xp and use all of that time for something more fun or profitable.

See Vehn, you just don't know. Give SuSE a try and then feel free to re-post your statement if you feel the same way. I'd be happy to show you if you want... just ask

 

[winter]

Quote from ktmexc20:
If anybody wants, PM me and I'll walk you through it.

Why would you need to walk anybody through it if "installing is MUCH easier than Xp + Office"

You *nix-heads crack me up, as soon as a thread with Windows in the title appear you all swarm to it like a moth to light.
Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt your preaching - please continue.

 

[gnome]

Quote from winter:

Why would you need to walk anybody through it if "installing is MUCH easier than Xp + Office"

You *nix-heads crack me up, as soon as a thread with Windows in the title appear you all swarm to it like a moth to light.
Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt your preaching - please continue.

LOL! Yeah, the *nix heads do kind of remind us of religious missionaries. (But isn't that really "*.nux" heads?)

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from ktmexc20:

See Vehn, you just don't know. Give SuSE a try and then feel free to re-post your statement if you feel the same way. I'd be happy to show you if you want... just ask

thanks but until xp cant do something i want to do i see no reason to spend the time changing over.

 

[ktmexc20]

Quote from winter:

Why would you need to walk anybody through it if "installing is MUCH easier than Xp + Office"

You *nix-heads crack me up, as soon as a thread with Windows in the title appear you all swarm to it like a moth to light.
Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt your prosthelitizing - please continue.

Sometimes, closed minds need a little direction.

AND winter, it's as easy as popping in the sw you download from the web (for free), booting with it and follow the directions. No different from Windows. If you would like to have both Windows and Linux on your computer, it's just as easy.

The reason *nix heads advocate *nix so much, is because it's much better (customizable configurations for one thing)... and all of it is free!

 

[winter]

Quote from ktmexc20:

AND winter, it's as easy as popping in the sw you download from the web (for free), booting with it and follow the directions. No different from Windows.

Funny, someone else said installing it was "MUCH easier", not "no different" from Windows, guess that was just hyperbole.

The reason *nix heads advocate *nix so much, is because it's much better (customizable configurations for one thing)... and all of it is free!

You know, by all accounts Beta was technically better than VHS but sometimes you just have to let it go. Not everyone is ignorant and waiting to be saved.

I bet many of the folks you are trying to convert would be better off staying with Windows. I know, I know - heresy!