I know vista is broadly considered to be a RUBBISH operating system, but I seem to have got the the thicko out of the remidial class with 64 bit vista.

I dont perceive any benefits over 32 bit, and yet there are loads of things that wont run cos of it.

Just a bit of a rant really.

Carry on.

I know what you mean. i am running windows 7 with 64 bit, i usually have 2 internet tabs open. 1 for 32 bit and the other 64, its a pain when you click on a link and it wont run correctly and then have to copy it over to the other tab.

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Its brilliant for Photoshop CS5.... running that in 64 bit is soooo much better than 32!

LML = Love My Linux

yeah, can someone let us know exactly what and what doesn't run on ubuntu or whatever it's called??? I'm afraid to take the plunge.

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yeah, can someone let us know exactly what and what doesn't run on ubuntu or whatever it's called??? I'm afraid to take the plunge.

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You can dual boot with Ubuntu and windows. In fact, you can run it from a CD and see how you get on before installing it to the hard drive without touching your current installation!

Just download from here

http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download

ubuntu 10.10 64bit is is fab both our laptops and the netbook(netbook edition) are now running it. plan to move my desktop over to it from win7 64bit at christmas when im off work and have time to sort out all my media shares etc.

as for what you can and cant run on ubuntu. id personally say there isnt a lot. you can use wineHQ to run all your windows apps like word outlook photoshop etc. for anything that wont run in wine you can use sun virtual box which will give you the ability to run windows as a virtual machine within the linux os. best of all everything is free and usually open source.

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There's also this to look at

http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/kdegnome

It's supposed to be a glossy front end that does even more for Ubuntu.

Gnome is the usual Ubuntu GUI and KDE is the more snazzy GUI. Lots of people seem to flit between the depending on what they are doing!

I use 64 bit windows 7 so that I can have sun virtual box running a linux box for development.
Works a treat (but needs 64 bit address space as it get a bit memory intensive).

Get an upgrade to Windows 7 64-bit professional (not the lame Home version) and install virtual PC with XP on it (this is part of Win7 64 pro...)

I haven't found any of my old software that I can't run yet.

Ed.

Your blaming windows here at thats not the issue.

64bit software just hast developed like it should have. the main problem with 32bit is that is cannot use more than 4GB of ram. so its becoming a necessity to move to 64bit.

problem is that most software company's haven't bothered (most big ones have though). my first port of call would be to ditch IE (internet explorer) for Firefox or even Oprah.

stick with 64bit (upgrade to windows 7 would help) as Im guessing windows 8 wont even have a 32bit version.

p.s. Ive drank way to many beers for a decent reply if none of the above makes any sense

I have used all flavours of Windoze since 3.1 and I am now very happy with Win7 Pro 64 bit which is the most reliable by a mile. It runs all of my graphic design packages (Corel Draw, Photoshop etc) flawlessly and even my old ECU mapping software on the USB convertor.
My system is a bit of a beast though - 2 x quad Xeon processors (8 cores!) and bags of RAM - I am not sure what Linux would think of that lot

64bit Windows 7 here too. Only thing that won't work is my scanner software from HP so I can't scan over the network, but I suspect installing the XP mode thing it would.

I'm a big fan of Linux but just can't bring myself to install it on my desktop. I get along just fine having a Linux server running and ssh'ing into it from Windows.

I might have a go now tho after these reports that Office can now run under Wine. Last time I tried it was buggy as hell.

Chris

64 Bit Win 7 here too - my scanner (Genius Colour Page HR6) also won't work as drivers not available so made a dual boot with Win XP - a bit of a nuisance but works fine.

Chose 64 bit for extra Ram allowed.

XP facility also allows me to run some of my very old programs as well.

One thing I have noticed is that 7 doesn't like me to open several programs at the same time as mouse freezes until all are loaded. Didn't notice this problem on XP running same AV's etc.

I'm a huge Linux fan - but I must admit that Windows 7 is a decent operating system (I use it at work). It seems to be robust, and doesn't have all the user-hostile rubbish that came with Vista. It's what XP should have become in one leap, rather than two. I've only had a few BSODs (Blue Screens of Death) and they were entirely caused by Dell screen drivers - an update fixed the problem.

I will still remain with Linux though, for a few reasons: viruses are almost non-existent, when software crashes it usually only takes out the user session instead the whole machine, and there's a lot of very good FREE software.

I have been running 64 OS's for years and never once have had a problem. That said I have always used the Pro/Ultimate versions so dont know what the Home versions are like.

The major advantage is they let you have more than 4Gb of total system memory which is great if you are running photoediting or gaming.

Also they take advantage of the latest processors - but if you are an average home user just surfing the net then you wouldnt notice the difference.

I am very impressed with the XP virtual desktop in Win7 Premium - not found any old XP progs that wont run on it. That said 99% of them will run in Win7 anyway.