jinxy

XP is ok, but it's old. There's no reason that it's functionally better than Vista. The only grief I have with vista is that you can't drag files into a cd folder and burn a data cd that will play in a car. That's it so far, and I've been running it for months.

Jorsher

C'mon BDVT...had that fixed within 5 minutes of installing it for the first time

To any of you talking about how horrible Vista is, who's used it since SP1, or even at all?

It does use more resources than XP. But, XP uses more than win2k, win2k uses more than 98, 98 uses more than 95, 95 uses more than 3.1, 3.1 uses more than DOS............etc

Ram is cheap as ---- like rawr said. I have 4 x 2gb sticks of "high quality performance ram" for $100. You can probably get 8gb of decent ram for $50, it's not expensive.

Win7 is even better than Vista with resources since everyone's whining about it. They had a beta running smoothly on a dinky netbook only using around 200mb of ram...

RacingTiger

Alright. To take this in another direction. What dual screen supporting OS Flava would you guys recommend for web-browsing and media viewing? Looking for efficiency and stability

Smith-02

xp and dual monitor vidcard.

marcj

which ubuntu build has the elite video rendering for switching users/partitions with 3D cubes and such?

E-b0la

I guess I just like XP better because it uses less resources, and I haven't really upgraded my machine since about 5 years ago. Sempron 3100+ ftw




I would just get a 1 video card that supports dual monitors.

n2o_2k

All of them, you will need the compiz/beryl package if you want eye candy.

Differents people, differents taste, prepare to receive bunch of differents answers too. Currently using fedora with a dual screen at work and found it pretty stable. At home everything is gentoo powered.

For video cards if you're using linux I will suggest nvidia card based. Stay away for any ati cards, linux support suck *****.

bigdaddyvtec

I like Fedora...

jinxy

I'm not exactly sure why, but I'm assuming vista writes it in a different style file system that the car player cant read. My new pioneer wma/mp3/aac player won't read the disks unless I burn with WMP or some other software.