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Originally Posted by markr
My personal opinion is that the stock OS has been unfairly maligned. I'm currently quad-booting the stock OS, the latest version of Mer, WinCE and Android, and I think the stock OS is clearly the best at the present stage.
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Here here, I totally agree
It seems some people are very quick to jump over the fence and try the 'greener' grass rather than spend time trying to tune the Std OS.
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Originally Posted by markr
Mer may end up being better, but keep in mind that the actual apps running under Mer are exactly the same apps as are running under the stock OS (they come from the arm Ubuntu builds, albeit a slightly newer version) so while the menus may end up a bit quicker, all the apps will run at the same speed (which is fine if you're a bit careful about what apps you install and don't install anything too heavy). Meanwhile you currently give up on a lot of conveinience with Mer (like the ability to adjust the backlight, or shutdown/suspend without going to the commandline).
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Again I agree. Mer may be the best OS in the long term for the Q5 & Q7
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Originally Posted by markr
It's definitely worth trying these things out, and the ease of dual-booting makes it simple, but I keep going back to the default OS.
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Agrees again!
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Originally Posted by markr
For what it's worth I thought winCE was a waste of the money I paid for the license, but I seem to be alone here, there are certainly plenty of people putting in a lot of effort to make it useable. Maybe I'm just not interested in paying for the apps that will make it useable when they are freely available under linux.
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Here is where I disagree slightly (well I didn't have to pay for mine
) There probably is some freeware out there for WinCE, I'm hoping it's just proving harder to find
