Learn the hardships and trials one must undergo in the dreaded switch of operating systems (whether it be from XP to Linux or anything else).


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Time to pull out your battle axe and we are about to go fire up the OS war, once again something that we tend to do every other hour in the chat room at live.pirillo.com. I get some of the people and I do not mean to, you know sounds snippy, but so many people ask me what is the best operating system is or what they should do and should they get this, should they get that I do not know what to say. And the bottom line is always do what you want. That is the way it always has been and instead of me asking you. What you are using right now for an operating system? I am going to ask you what was your most favorite operating system of all time? I mean from the beginning of operating systems as you have known them, as you have use them. What is you, now you cannot talk about ones in the future, the ones that have not been released, the ones in the past or potentially present day. And you may say that your favorite of all time happens to be the one that you are running now, I mean that is perfectly fine. But don’t you say the operating system, give me a good reason, give everybody your reason why that was your favorite or happens to be your favor, okay let us try add a little bit of intelligence. Do not slag somebody else’s choice for an operating system, that is no way to win an argument and usually when you do that you show more of your inadequacies and just lack of respect to the other person for their choices. And honestly when you argue against somebody else’s operating system, I have seen so many people make just mistakes of you know they are perpetuating this rumors or just grouse in accuracies. So; again try to keep it to your self your own choices and why. The reason why I am bringing this up is because I am holding on a piece of paper that must been as a top five list top five things to take in consideration before switching operating systems because you know you maybe deciding to float from one to the other. I know plenty of people who are right there, right on the cusp between one and another or possibly between more than two. So, if you are going to be to going from windows to OSTX or OSTX the Linux or any combinations there up. There are some things you should know before doing anything, number 5 stability. You want to make sure the operating systems you were going use is functional about the operating system is more or less useless from this person experience XP is the most practical windows operating system to use at this moment. I am relatively new to Linux he notes, but my favorite bistro Ubuntu because of the easy migration over from XP. Mac OS ten, I know absolutely nothing about, but I have heard that Leopard is somewhat more buggy than even previous version. I have not tried it, there is only what I have heard and to be fair every operating system is buggy. Every operating system is going to have security issues and every operating system is going to be riddled with hick ups whenever software updates are released. So, that is across the board. I am not picking on one over the other, I am not saying one is better than the other at this point. I am just saying it is pretty much it, does not matter what your operating system is it is still software. Number 4, compatibility with hardware. This is mostly for windows and Linux and OS Ten hardware is pretty much controlled by Apple. Be careful when you are talking about things you are not fully sure about here Shadow fang 36 Check to make sure that your video cards, sound card, printer, mother board anything that has driver for has compatible with the operating system your choice. Some dated hard ROM where, some dated hardware will not be supported by some of your new operating systems speaking mostly the Vista make sure that everything you have will work in the future. Well, there is some exemption of this you know not all hardware that run on OS Ten is controlled Apple and in fact, the open source community has come to the rescue for a lot of legacy hardware even hardware that is you know, modern hardware existing with modern operating systems were official drivers have not been release yet. There is a program called Mac Cam which will allow you to use your like decade old webcam on OS Ten, it is open source and there is a guy out there who has developed pretty much a driver for every webcam out there, but to use those webcams on Linux. So, you have to be less reliant on the people who created the hardware and more reliant on the community that cares enough to keep that support for the hardware alive in modern operating systems. In compatibility again, this is another check mark all across the board, it does not matter which operating systems you are using, do your best to check hardware compatibility as much as possible. Do not just and here is the thing, I have learned to completely distrust any kind of logo or certified logo that says; hey we are compatible with this. that does not mean anything anymore. You need to check the forms. You need to check with the community you need to check and with all else fails do not do it ,okay. Do not think you are going to be any different then any body else out there who is running the issues with hardware in the software, I mean you maybe lucky, but just be very, very, very cautious.