Vista? Hello or goodbye?

[Peter Korsten]

Op 13-5-2011 18:33, Jay Vaughan schreef:

>> It's all a question about market. After, what, 15 years, Linux is still
>> a niche when it comes to the desktop.
>
> Well, I don't see that as being particularly true around these parts of Europe, where a switch to Linux has been happening, behind the scenes, in a lot of interesting places.  Windows still comes along, but for the most part I believe that a truly effective Windows operation puts it in a VM, and that is almost always going to be something like a big, fat, Linux box.

Windows in a VM is still Windows. I'm talking about people like Dave who 
actually use Linux for productivity. Even you are mailing from a Mac (or 
at least, an Apple product).

> [...], Ardour is big and fat and one of the reasons I have a multi-core machine with gigs of RAM, [...]

My son asked me today about this little desktop gadget that I have in 
Windows 7, which shows the temperature and % usage of each (virtual) 
core, plus the overall CPU speed. He wanted to know about the CPU speed, 
and wanted me to get it higher. I didn't manage: the machine is just too 
fast. :)

- Peter