Vista Downgrade - Alternate OS Suggestions?

[MrPinkPanther]

Agreed to an extent, OS X is better than Windows in some ways and vice versa.

I'm not a big fan of OSX, to me it feels a little bit too "Floaty" although I think Mac Hardware is fantastic.

[Wayne]

Agreed to an extent, OS X is better than Windows in some ways and vice versa.

You just download the Ubuntu ISO, then burn it to disk, Ubuntu will do the partitioning etc for you.

So I just back up the stuff I want from Windows, then put the Ubuntu disk in and it will overwrite Windows so I should be able to use my full amount of disk space in Ubuntu?

[Agnostic Bear]

That doesn't even exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_dance_music

Hrmpf.

I occasionally listen to the odd IDM track here and there.

[HotelUser]

Hang on, if I'm not mistaken that's an application's font so its also down somewhat to the maker of the application. A Safari vs IE comparison is probably better suited to making your case. Regardless, you missed the point...the Windows font is much more pragmatic and easier to read and easier to design with (though Apple is supposed to be better for arteests)

Nope, WordPress is a webscript. I believe it's coded in PHP. I'm not quite sure designing would matter very much when it comes down to how the two different Operating Systems render their fonts. For example if you were doing pixel art in MSPAINT, and you wanted to use a font and, lets say, you wanted to have the font white and outline it with black. You'd probably have to end up disabling cleartype altogether. Perhaps Window's font rendering does have its advantages though. I'm just not sure of scenarios where the difference would be significant.

The difference is hard to see because its a white background. However, if someone put that font into a graphic or perhaps was viewing it on a colored page it'd be different. To avoid any bias whatsoever I've taken your example and simple clicked the paint can ONCE on paint.



As you can see, the normal sized, everyday reading font shows up perfectly in the Windows but not in the OSX. Due to me not actually using a legit system and clicking the paint can the big text isn't quite a good assessment (though that doesn't look like ClearText to me...it looks like the bottom WordPress is closer to OSX and the top is closer to cleartype, at least going by the blown up comparison...

Actually the WordPress example was only displaying OS X really. "Use these links to get started" on Windows isn't using ClearType. I posted another example in response to jb, I'll give it the paintcan treatment:

The top shot being OS X and the bottom shot being Windows. To me, both shots look horrible. The Windows version maybe being a little more legible, but no person in their right mind would use either of these as graphics, because the smoothing on both would cause problems. In photoshop and other designing applications, you could use the magic tool to fix this problem quite nicely. So, perhaps Windows is rendering the font slightly better for designing purposes, but it's not so much to matter.

I'm not talking about performance, I'm talking about readability. Not to be dismissive of your opinion here but it may look better to your eyes however according to professionals it is shown that Windows font rendering is clearer, sticking to presentation over artistry whereas Apple sticks to the theory that font designer's wishes should be honored and go for the artistry over presentation.
What is the effect? According to studies, more reading accuracy with ClearType font. Perhaps if you are an art purist (and this would mean you also have never illegally downloaded a song because THINK OF THE ARTISTS) the OSX font rendering would be better. But pragmatically the ClearType rendering is better.

I was talking about performance regarding Desktop Effects on Ubuntu. Apple is very professional. Their Keynote presentation applications is far beyond PowerPoint.

I'm not saying you're not able to read a word on the mac but the idea that OSX rendering isn't worse than ClearType, at least from the viewpoint of efficiency and pragmatism.

I just think it's different. Both look good.

I rest my case :8

*Facepalm* Typed this entire thing out and forgot to hit enter, its been sitting among 20 tabs in one of 6 windows all lonely for hours.

[/QUOTE]

Lmao I did that with my last post. I even went as far as to close Safari without realizing what I've done! I had to retype the entire post.

[Recursion]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_dance_music

Hrmpf.

I occasionally listen to the odd IDM track here and there.

I meant the Intelligent bit.

[MrPinkPanther]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_dance_music

Hrmpf.

I occasionally listen to the odd IDM track here and there.

I do believe he was saying no Dance music is "Intelligent". It was a joke .

[Recursion]

I do believe he was saying no Dance music is "Intelligent". It was a joke .

Wahey!

[Wayne]

Will the Ubuntu installation disk when inserted install over Windows?

[Recursion]

Will the Ubuntu installation disk when inserted install over Windows?

It'll ask you if you want to install over Windows or install side-by-side.

[MrPinkPanther]

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