Entice Designer 0.8.2 release

[Charlie]

I had Vista pre-installed on my new lenovo laptop and absolutely could 
not stand it.  I'm mostly OS neutral, I like XP and Ubuntu , but Vista 
is absolutely god awful, I had to jump through so many hoops to get it 
configured, and now instead of configuration files the have *registry 
patches* , good lord!

I have a core duo 2 and Vista ran so slow, it literally took over 5 
minutes to boot up.

And besides eye candy it has no new features that would make it more 
productive.

I uninstalled Vista and installed kubuntu, and could not be happier. 
Its quick, its pretty, and insanely productive.

I remember trying to install Slackware 3.0 pre 21st century from a set 
of floppies and totally trashing the family computer - they wouldn't let 
me touch it after that.  Linux now is a one click install, with most 
drivers detected automatically.  Everything on my laptop, sound - 
wireless card - ethernet , worked out of the box.

Charlie




Saaa wrote:
> Are even programmers against vista?
> Is it because of the price? Or maybe you think it isn't necessary?
> You must understand that the real features of vista which are interesting 
> can't be shown in general commercials, right?
> 
> No that I'm a fan.. I don't even run it but I could get excited when I get 
> my new computer.
> 
> http://manodesign.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1pRsSVBaAuwgFSti-clSJ6Ng!362.entry
> DirectX 10 , software sound approach
> 
> I  am just interested in the why it is that bad that you think because of it 
> to switch?
> 
> 
> "Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote in message 
> news:f0gv1a$2jtf$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> freeagle wrote:
>>> Charlie wrote:
>>>> DFL and Entice are really under-appreciated IMO , an awesome piece of 
>>>> work.
>>> I think this is because the project is hosted at www.dprogramming.com. 
>>> I'm not saying there's anything bad about it, but I think that first, and 
>>> probably the last, stop for any beginning D programmer is 
>>> www.dsource.org. That's why projects at dprogramming don't receive much 
>>> attention.
>> It looks like a very nice project, but I think the fact that it's 
>> Windows-only is the reason for lack of widespread adoption.  Heck I'm a 
>> Windows-only user but I won't touch Windows-only libraries.  I value my 
>> own freedom to switch platforms at will too much, especially these days 
>> with Vista breathing uncomfortably down my neck.   I also value the 
>> ability to share with friends who don't use Windows.  So I never really 
>> gave DFL a second look.
>>
>> --bb 
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