Asestorian
Federation of Freedom Fighters
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Posted - 2008.11.30 16:01:00 -
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The disabling of Aero in Vista is entirely dependent on your system, as well as what you do on it. Running games in fullscreen should turn off Aero anyway, but running in windowed mode still keeps Aero running, so you may find yourself with very slightly improved performance from turning it off.
I can't give much opinion on Server 2008.
Linux, I can give a little bit of an opinion on, as I've been forced to used it for a little bit the past week or so. The "Administrator access" thing does exist, in reality. But it's far less infuriating and you don't necessarily have to log into the administrator (root) account to have that level of access. This is quite a lot of the reason that Linux is considered more secure. You are right, of course, that you get a lot more control over the system if you learn how to get that control though.
Gaming on Linux is a bit of a hit and miss thing. If you have the wrong hardware even your desktop is going to be sluggish. This is a driver issue, but it isn't something that the open source community can easily solve. It's more about hardware manufacturers not giving enough of a damn about Linux. If you have the right set of hardware you may be good to go, however.
But be warned. Gaming isn't anywhere near as good yet on Linux as it is on Windows. Some games, mostly older ones, can work great. Some might work oddly and others won't work at all. Performance is probably going to be a little to severely reduced and the whole thing can end up quite complicated and frustrating. Depending on how much you play games you may want to at least dual boot with Windows for that purpose with Linux used for your more everyday things. If you play games almost all the time this is going to be annoying and you might as well stick with Windows anyway.
If you do go with Linux, then most commonly people tend to go for Ubuntu as a start, with another alternative start being Fedora. Then, depending on what you want to do, you might end up looking at something like Arch, which I have been hearing a lot about as a system that those who want to know more about Linux flock to, and those who already know a lot about Linux can become quite fond of as well. Also, it doesn't have a ridiculously stupid name. I expect many proponents of Linux would suggest "distro-hopping" anyway, if you really want to find something that fits. There are hundreds of distributions of Linux for a variety of needs and purposes as well as the ability for you to make your own, even stripping down the Linux kernel and recompiling it for maximum performance.
Honestly though, I haven't had any problems with Vista. Vista was running absolutely fine until my motherboard killed itself.
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 Originally by: CCP Atropos
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