Comments on: Why I Love Scott Wells More Than Ever Today

By: missnell

missnell — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:52:28 +0000

YIKES! I read the writing on the wall with Vista and bought myself a Mac.

So sorry about the Dell. My dad had similar problems.

By: Steve Caldwell

Steve Caldwell — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:34:14 +0000

PB,

I’ll second Scott Wells’ suggestion to look at Ubuntu Linux. I’ve been using it on my Dell laptop since June 2007. It’s been very stable and very reliable.

If your Dell laptop has the Intel brand of wireless card, it should work “out of the box” with the latest Linux release (perhaps something that you and Scott could verify with the Ubuntu “live CD”?).

If your Dell laptop has the more commonly used Broadcom brand of wireless cards, it will take a little more work to get the wireless working on it.

Good luck with fixing all of this.

By: Peg Schuler-Armstrong

Peg Schuler-Armstrong — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:07:35 +0000

“… a little commercial for gmail and Google.”

And a Mac, too, from the sound of it.

Sorry for your headaches.

By: C. Scot Giles

C. Scot Giles — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:00:15 +0000

You really might want to think about making the switch to the Mac. It’s not has hard as you imagine (a bit pricey) and the Mac machines just work smoothly. Every day they do exactly what they did yesterday, automated upgrades are seamless and smooth.

I switched because my ministerial practice is very busy and I need to be able to depend on my equipment. Macs just work. There comes a time when that is WAY more important than the fact that they cost a bit more.

Best wishes,
Scot

By: Scott (Boy in the Bands)

Scott (Boy in the Bands) — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:52:18 +0000

Oh, and now that the new version of Ubuntu Linux is out, there’s more hope for the Microsoft-abandoned.

By: Louise

Louise — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:47:32 +0000

I agree.

I like Scott.

I hate Vista.

We hunted around until we found new (unused) but old (manufactured several years ago) laptops that had XP as the OS. Oh, and we use Gmail, too.

By: h sofia

h sofia — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:40:58 +0000

I’ve heard nothing but complaints about Vista. Some offices have switched back to XP because of the hit they were taking in productivity. I knew it was bad news when I saw that last year they were hiring for Vista de-buggers, and I saw their debugging rate - something like 3000 bugs per day.