Comments: Microsoft Windows Vista and the Mono/Gtk# Installers - Part I

No Cygwin? Ouch. That's definitely a non-starter for me. Having said that, I suspect Cygwin does some deep and nasty things to support e.g. fork().

Aero won't work with 6800? My old 6800GT runs Oblivion, probably the most demanding video game currently, just fine. Makes you wonder if the testing is accurate.

Good thing I got an 8800GTX in my current machine :)

Posted by Barry Kelly at February 7, 2007 05:55 PM

Strange that your graphics card won't run Aero. I have an ATI radeon xpress 200m, with a score of 2.5, and it runs just fine.

Posted by Sam Williamson at February 7, 2007 06:02 PM

Aero runs fine on my Acer C310 tablet, which has a GeForce Go 6600. I had to boost the RAM though.

Re Cygwin: Looks like people have met with some success

http://blogs.vislab.usyd.edu.au/index.php/EnochLau/2007/02/05/cygwin_on_vista

http://nevali.wordpress.com/

Posted by Keith J. Farmer at February 7, 2007 08:04 PM

Ha ha ha! Paco, I like your recommendations. Although I have to disagree on the usefulness of even XP and 2000. I wouldn't touch them with a 100 foot pole, except for the games. Is Windows good for anything else? :-)

Posted by PJ Cabrera at February 9, 2007 02:24 AM

Oh, by the way. As per my previous comment, you can assume that they only reason I will ever upgrade to Vista, is once Windows games start coming out only for Vista. I really have no other use for Microsoft crap.

Posted by PJ Cabrera at February 9, 2007 02:32 AM