Just upgrade to Windows 7.
I've only seen and heard (from my clients) good things after I chucked that pile of faeces Vista for it.
A new i7 with 12GB triple channel DDR3 running Windows 7 64bit I installed at the local newspaper last week runs like a friggin dream. I have never seen a PC run that smoothly and quickly through boot-up and a variety of authoring and image editing programs.
Originally posted by AcapaYespadaI run Ubuntu, and I like it. I've customized it to my needs. What makes Ubuntu a good choice for most users is that whenever you have a problem you can't solve (or need a quick answer) there's a great community that almost never fails to help out. Most desktop distros have good communities around them, but I've found Ubuntu to be the most helpful so far. (Of course, you can't really do anything advanced with any distro without a certain do-it-yourself-attitude; self-sufficiency.)
Hi, I really had it with that piece of crap of Vista, I restarted the laptop after installing the so called new updates, and all i got was a black screen, this is the 3rd time this happens, not to mention that some of my programs won't work with Vista, and every time I want to run an app it asks me like 3 times if I want to run it or not...I've gone to ...[text shortened]... (don't know if either of them would fit my needs), any help would be appreciated
thanks
Labview runs on both *nix and windoze, I think. For autocad, you can get it working under wine. Or so I've read:
http://architectafrica.com/bin0/news200411111_wine.html
Of course, it's much better if you can find linux applications. Querying the Ubuntu program manager, got me this list:
electric (Electrical CAD System)
SagCAD
PyCAD
Gmsh Mesh Generator
OpenCASCADE
Whether or not these will do, there's only one way for you to find out.
Originally posted by zeeblebotI must say I like the out-of-the-box appearance of Helena. Mint is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. How different would you say that Mint is from it's Ubuntu equivalent? I can see from the screen shot that the menu is quite different to begin with. I might just try Mint out myself on a USB-stick, but I'll try Helena I think. Sexy!
try Linux Mint. it's easy to install and update.
the Synaptic package manager is on the start menu and you can install octave with that, over the internet. it's point and click (search for "octave", select, mark for install, click Apply).
here is Mint's own repository of other stuff you can install. octave is not on there so you'd need to use Sy ...[text shortened]... g to the hard drive, too. same CD.
go with Mint 7 (Gloria) if Mint 8 is still in beta.
http://www.linuxmint.com/pictures/screenshots/helena/helena-fresh.png
