As far as XP SP3, if you build your own you can still get this on disk. Microsoft has indicated that updates will continue through 2014 I thought it was cute when I built my Vista Ultimate machine, I had to install the Link Layer Topology Discovery hotfix on my XP machines, just to get the Vista POS to see the other XP machines on my network
The big problem with the pole: You can only select 1 option. At home, i run all three on a very regular basis. I do a bit of work with robotics in my spare time, and the tools I use for that all require Windows. I love having OSX to manage my digital life (pictures, music, movies, etc). And I tinker on my Linux box all the time, trying out different environments and languages for coding websites... So i pick all three :-p. Although i would certainly get rid of the Windows dependency if i could...
I would also ditch windows if I could. As long as I keep renewing contracts with clients who insist on using a weird windows-only VPN driver (XP only, does NOT work with Vista!), I guess I can force myself to keep using it
Priuschat has a folding team, if you're not already on one: http://priuschat.com/forums/freds-house-pancakes/24641-anyone-out-there-folding-home.html Nice to see another St. Louis priuschatter, btw. On topic, I run XP Pro at the office, have a Mac laptop and primarily run Ubuntu on my home desktop. For what I need to do, they all get the job done and stay out of the way well enough. So, I guess I'm something of an OS Universalist.
Ubuntu Linux on four computers, Windows XP on one, and a dual boot to XP on one of the Linux boxes. I also have a reflashed HTC Kaiser running Windows Mobile Pro. Tom
I'm with Eagle on this, if I could, I would have had to pick Windows (Vista and XP), and Ubuntu. But then at work we still have a couple old Macs laying around, still running OS9.something, just enough to give me nightmares. My netbook dual boots between XP and Ubuntu, they have a netbook remix that's SWEET, then my desktop dual boots between Vista and Ubuntu, I would probably use Ubunto more if there were drivers for my Kodak printer.
Sounds like my office! I still run XP at home when i need it, so it's not a problem for me... but for people who are using Vista, they have to run XP in a virtual machine just to log in remotely from home. Talk about a big PITA. Especially since there are VPN clients available from the same vendor for Vista - our IT group just refuses to validate/support them.
As far as VPN clients, my client actually received an EOL notice around a year ago that the client would not be directly supported under Vista. May have to do with IP6, UPNP, LLTD, who knows It's flaky if you try to run XP on a VM from Vista. Since I can write off the hardware, I just built an extra box to run XP Pro. No problems whatsoever. Of course, I had to install the LLTD responder on that box, just so the Vista machine would see it on my network
I got 5 computers at home. - My main high-powered gaming computer, running Vista. - My Macbook Pro laptop, which I carry with me on the road. OSX Leopard for Intel Macs. For a short time I've ran Vista on it under bootcamp, but I decided to ditch it since I find OSX to be satisfactory for all my mobile computing needs. - My Home-theater PC, connected to my big-screen TV. It was running the Windows MCE version of XP. - My media server, which streams video or music files to any of the computers on the home network on-demand. Since its only function is file storage, I don't see the point of spending hundreds of bucks on a Microsoft OS license for it, so I use UBuntu Linux on the media server. - A very old Commodore 64 with lots of nostalgia games-- Classic stuff like Archon, MULE, Beach-head, Raid Over Moscow, Summer Games, etc. Those games are simple by today's standards but they sure have a fun factor all their own. This is the only computer not on my home gigabit network.
My favorite Vista trick: after a fresh install, or sometimes just because it feels like it, after an update it will reboot, tell you the update was not successful, then tell you that step 3 of 3 is 0% complete, then get stuck in an endless update reboot loop The update is not installed successfully, you receive a message, and the computer restarts when you try to install an update in Windows Vista First time that happened to me, I just about ran amok and beat the computer into a pulp
Yep, I came very close to doing that Instead, I wiped the drives, reformatted them to NTFS on a spare XP Pro machine, reinstalled Vista Ultimate, manually added the suggested Microsoft hotfix, then it started working Such a *useful* way for me to spend a day!
Ubuntu on the desktop when I get around to replacing the motherboard, OS X on the 4 notebooks in the family.
