Okay, so I am posting this from attempt number 3 at using Windows Vista. The previous two attempts were prior to service pack 1. So many people around here especially kept reassuring me that Vista SP1 isn't so bad, and that I needed to give it a try.
I hate it.
Its slow, its buggy, programs kept stop responding like every other minute. iTunes and my massive library of music keeps crashing and does weird graphical effects. I hate it, I hate it, and I hate it. I had none of these problems with Windows XP SP2.
So...now I stand before you, ready to go back to WinXP SP2. However, since I am giving everything a try these days, I am considering trying Linux. Last time I had tried Linux it was back a year or two ago and I know plenty has changed since then.
Here is what I need, and What I Want:
-In a perfect world, I could use an Activesync alternative in Linux to sync up my Pocket PC information.
-Read and write to my NTFS partitions. Formatting them and messing with them is NOT an option. Whatever it takes to get these working needs to be SAFE.
-Fast. I don't game, I just pretty much surf the web.
-I don't want to learn a bunch of shell commands. I am not as geeky as I used to be and certainly don't have the time or care to have to learn shell commands to do common tasks.
-Installing programs was a pain last time I tried Linux, and was probably the reason I abandoned it for WinXP again.
Is Linux for me? Which distro would you recommend? So many people say Ubuntu, then I read how many people hate the new version or versions?
I hate it.
Its slow, its buggy, programs kept stop responding like every other minute. iTunes and my massive library of music keeps crashing and does weird graphical effects. I hate it, I hate it, and I hate it. I had none of these problems with Windows XP SP2.
So...now I stand before you, ready to go back to WinXP SP2. However, since I am giving everything a try these days, I am considering trying Linux. Last time I had tried Linux it was back a year or two ago and I know plenty has changed since then.
Here is what I need, and What I Want:
-In a perfect world, I could use an Activesync alternative in Linux to sync up my Pocket PC information.
-Read and write to my NTFS partitions. Formatting them and messing with them is NOT an option. Whatever it takes to get these working needs to be SAFE.
-Fast. I don't game, I just pretty much surf the web.
-I don't want to learn a bunch of shell commands. I am not as geeky as I used to be and certainly don't have the time or care to have to learn shell commands to do common tasks.
-Installing programs was a pain last time I tried Linux, and was probably the reason I abandoned it for WinXP again.
Is Linux for me? Which distro would you recommend? So many people say Ubuntu, then I read how many people hate the new version or versions?