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janrinok
on Sunday April 06 2014, @08:46PM
from the but-not-the-year-of-the-Linux-desktop dept.
from the but-not-the-year-of-the-Linux-desktop dept.
A recent poll by The Inquirer asked, "Which operating system will you use after Windows XP support ends on 8 April?"
Among respondents, 33 percent said they will move to Windows 7, 17 percent will stick with XP, 13 percent will switch to Linux, 11 percent will get Windows 8, and 5 percent said OS X.
So most will switch to Windows 7, but many would rather stay with Win XP without support than switch to Linux.
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Poll: More Will Switch to Linux Than to Win8
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(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Monday April 07 2014, @02:59PM
Works just like Windows 7 really; except it's a little faster.
Are you sure? If your drive hasn't been wiped and W7 reinstalled it will certainly seem faster; I'm about to put Linux on this notebook because it's gotten so slow. It's that damned registry probably. Uninstalling software almost never removes registry entries and the bigger the registry, the slower Windows will run.
XP was advertised as being faster than W98, but I'd just reinstalled 98 when I put XP on it, and XP was slower. I suspect that's what you're experiencing.
And they lived happily ever after.