Re: yet another reason not to buy vista...

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:46:43 -0600, §ñühw¤£f wrote:

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:08:37 GMT
Christopher Hunter <chrisehunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

nunya wrote:

Ah, another troll that prefers to pay M$ for their BETA software.

Vista's not good enough to be considered "beta"!

All the hype and spin was pure nonsense - it was thrown together in just
under 10 months - Ballmer was screaming that they "must get /something/
out". They /didn't/ "rewrite the kernel" - it uses the same old XP one
with a few additions.

Its basicly nagware: "deny or allow"?

It actually asks "continue"? Whwn you wnt to change some bit it considers an administrative task...like critical desktop backgrounds & stuff.


The only /real/ additions over XP are "aero", which doesn't work on 90% of
machines (you need 4 Gb of RAM for it to /nearly/ work), lots of bogus
"security" nag dialogues and DRM. The DRM cripples network use
when /playing/ (not ripping) CDs or DVDs in an effort to prevent file
sharing, and deliberately reduces video and audio quality when playing
"premium" material.

It created a real hassle for us to use our embroidery sewing machine since it wont let us send designs directly to the machine anymore.
We have to copy them to a memory card and then stick that in there.



Vista is /deliberately/ broken by its DRM, and has so many security flaws,
driver issues and general instability that it's even /more/ unusable than
its predecessor!

C.

Its definitely slower...but it probably is more secure out of the box
than XP...
The "security features" began actually as a step in the right direction.
The implementation is a mess however. The only reason people (read
end-users) bitch and moan about it is they are all used to running their
accounts with administrative (formerly the default) rights (read monkey
playing "god of the machine") ...... ALWAYS leads to problems. The
"indexing feature" slows things way down immensely, and the DRM
implementation is, to put it mildly, draconian at best and seriously
hinders performance. This laptop came with Vista Premium installed and 2GB
DDR. I actually gave it 2 weeks of use and tweaking until wiping it and
installing an XP base (for work, and drivers were a real bitch to find)
along with a stable Gentoo x86-64 and a Gentoo ~amd64 set. The main
"feature" of Vista is Aero, a bloated and resource hogging bunch of
eye-candy (still pretty though) which would have been far better served up
on an OSS plate of Beryl and the like. Of course in doing so, M$ would
have relinquished the proprietary display (rather than trying to copy it
poorly just as they did "back in the day" in the old garage).
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