http://www.pledgebank.com/boycottvista Comments on 'not purchase any computing equipment from manufactures that recommend Windows Vista™ or any other Microsoft® products' en-gb team@pledgebank.com 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 2 hourly http://www.pledgebank.com/boycottvista#comment_2575789 I have installed a dual boot with Windows Vista and FreeBSD, installing FreeBSD, with XP this went without issue but after SP1 FreeBSD would work obviously but Windows Vista SP1 would just loop and not boot, I removed it and made my workstation a dedicated FreeBSD with VirtualPC and Linux for other things. http://www.pledgebank.com/boycottvista#comment_2506608 GNU/Linux is the best Operating System in the world! Free, Fully customizable, Open and LIGHT! http://www.pledgebank.com/boycottvista#comment_2296593 Actually, I would recommend dual booting as to removing Windows. The main reason is that Wine is not good enough yet. WHen it is, I will gladly uninstall Windows. http://www.pledgebank.com/boycottvista#comment_483773 Community Linux has an interesting article on how to get a Windows refund. http://community.linux.com/print.pl?sid=07/01/03/227237 http://www.pledgebank.com/boycottvista#comment_467272 They use windows at work as a networked system. I kid you not they must reboot the server weekly. At home I tried to reinstall XP it will not install several updates including a new version of explorer. This is the last straw, I killed XP and installed linux mint 2.0. No more DRM or other restrictions. http://www.pledgebank.com/boycottvista#comment_464288 I refused Windworms XP in the past and refuse Vista now. YES. I prefer free and open source DOS'es. Yes, DOS IS a serious OS, while Vista is a crap. http://www.pledgebank.com/boycottvista#comment_455488 A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt Key facts: - Disabling of Functionality - Decreased Playback Quality - Elimination of Open-source Hardware Support - Denial-of-Service via Driver Revocation - Decreased System Reliability - Increased Hardware Costs - Increased Cost due to Requirement to License Unnecessary Third-party IP - Unnecessary CPU Resource Consumption http://www.pledgebank.com/boycottvista#comment_455093 Any piece of s...oftware produced by Microsoft is worse than it's previous version. Surely Vista will be last of Microsoft's OSes because nothing can be worse than it. http://www.pledgebank.com/boycottvista#comment_435322 Vista suxx, my linux box is much better in all ways. Besides, all manufacturers which sell pc's in my region, sell it with preinstalled pirated version of windows :) http://www.pledgebank.com/boycottvista#comment_428732 The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has launched BadVista.org, a campaign with a twofold mission of exposing the harms inflicted on computer users by the new Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free software alternatives that respect users' security and privacy rights. http://badvista.fsf.org/ http://www.pledgebank.com/boycottvista#comment_410344 Allthough i lack final proof for the statement about the restrictions on the user, from experience and from what the producer makes possible with the integration of DRM in the Kernel, i can't support anyone who recommends this product to the less informed end user. That legitimates this promise for me.