Linux has driven me to buy Windows Vista

[Madison Kelly]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:45:33AM -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>> I suspect that Microsoft will make it fairly painless to upgrade 
>> directly from XP to Windows 7, allowing a seamless leapfrog of Vista ... 
>> they can't risk pissing off even more users.
> 
> I wouldn't count on it.  You couldn't upgrade from 2k to vista, only
> from XP.  An upgrade from vista to win7 will have a lot less driver
> issues and such to worry about, and the majority of the application
> compatibility issues would have already been solved on vista, while
> things that work with XP might not work with either vista of win7, so
> you get all those issues again.
> 
> Besides a fresh install of windows is still a good idea.  This isn't
> Debian you are dealing with after all.

Part of what I am banking on with this new system (new hardware 
underneath, too) is that it will last me for a few years of my (modest) 
gaming needs. I am hoping that by then, gaming on Linux will have 
matured and I can sever my last tether to Windows entirely.

Madi
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