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Help with Win 8 feedback buy or not to buy?
Bob2004:
Android is so different from Linux, it can't be counted as even a relative, despite the fact the Android kernel is based on it.
As for Linux video players, mplayer2 is capable of playing pretty much everything you need, 10-bit included. It's not as good as some of the stuff available for Windows, but it does the job fine. VLC also runs on Linux.
kitamesume:
--- Quote from: Bob2004 on November 22, 2012, 12:10:36 AM ---Android is so different from Linux, it can't be counted as even a relative, despite the fact the Android kernel is based on it.
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not quite, it still is "an off-shoot in some ways"(note its not "entirely") since it still uses linux as a base platform, its like having a linux distro with an android skin/interface.
Freedom Kira:
No, it really isn't. Things that run on Linux don't run on Android without some major code changes, and vice versa.
The only thing it has in common is the filesystem structure. And that's not saying much, considering how there really are only two different kinds - Windows-style and Linux-style.
kitamesume:
lets just leave it as having a different front end on the same platform.
(click to show/hide)otherwise you'd wanna read through this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29
--- Quote ---Android is a Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. It is currently developed by Google in conjunction with the Open Handset Alliance.[2] Initially developed by Android Inc, whom Google financially backed and later purchased in 2005,[9] Android was unveiled in 2007 along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 86 hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.[10]
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Tiffanys:
Microsoft has a long track record of doing a decent OS followed by a shit one. Well, let's play OS leapfrog...
XP - good
Vista - bad
W7 - good
W8 - CAN YOU FILL IN THE PATTERN??
With that said... it's intelligent to NEVER upgrade to an OS until it's been out for a good 6 months to a year so all of the bugs and kinks are all worked out and generally the first major service pack is released. But with Windows 8, you can just skip the garbage unless you're using a touch screen tablet device, cause you absolutely do not want it for a desktop PC. It'll drive you insane.
Metro is, basically, fucktarded.
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