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Re:The State of Windows 8 by boyter on Friday November 16, 2012 @07:18AM (#4793548)
Going to go on a hunch and suggest its a dodgy driver then, or some piece of hardware windows is picking up that Ubuntu isn't. Its annoying that bad drivers still crash windows but the same thing happens on Linux systems.
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Re:The State of Windows 8 by aluhut on Monday November 19, 2012 @05:09AM (#4803702)
That would explain the crash but why is it so horrible slow?

I don't feel the speed difference between an Ubuntu/XP is as big as in between Ubuntu/win7 (talking about the old-desktop here).

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Re:The State of Windows 8 by boyter on Monday November 19, 2012 @05:30PM (#4806647)
Going to go with drivers again. The sad truth is closed source drivers can be as hit or miss as open source. By any measure I have tried, Windows 7 is considerably faster then XP for the gear I run, but only when proper drivers are installed (not the included Windows 7 ones).

It is annoying when you get something that's slower or doesn't work though. I was burnt by Creative with my Live! Drive and as such will never buy their hardware or software again, but I don't blame Microsoft.

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