On 9/14/05, Paul Tansom paul@aptanet.com wrote:
So the home based power user is going to use which version? I suspect this is going to either lead to increased interest in MacOS and Linux, increased instances of piracy or a complete lack of interest in upgrading. In fact I have customers who specifically requested not to have WinXP installed on their systems - they went for Win2000 instead because they didn't like XP.
I too didn't like XP, but since being introduced to it after sp2, I have found it similar enough to Win2000 once the theme was set back to the Win2000 theme. Of course, I wouldn't recommended upgrading or anything rash like that.
So far I have only experienced Vista beta1 in 4bit colour mode because the list of supported video cards is very short. Even the suggested minimum spec should put off most people from upgrading, and from past experience upgrading Windows is risky enough as it is.
apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade Tim.