[olug] Vista is AMAZING!!!!

Fri Jul 13 22:08:49 UTC 2007

The biggest pain we're going to see there is that gamers are pretty much going to HAVE to have Vista at some point (I wouldn't run XP if I could get everything running in Wine).  DirectX10 only being released for Vista (this may change once the EU gets the Vista source code) means you're going to have to get Vista to get the full experience from some games.
I'm, of course, holding off on getting Vista until I HAVE to have it.  I can learn how to troubleshoot it without having it on my own system, but so far some of the security features built in are the most annoying bugs/features I've seen.

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----- Original Message ----
From: Neal R <neal at lists.rauhauser.net>
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 3:16:55 AM
Subject: Re: [olug] Vista is AMAZING!!!!

  This is why I don't run Windows ...

Aaron Grothe wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> As part of a project I'm starting I need to port a piece of software
> to a Microsoft Windows Box.  This is also when my second to last
> e-machine box has decided to go on to the great beyond 4 out of 5
> dead!
>
> I thought about building a box and getting an OEM version of Windows
> XP.  I haven't bought a box like the normal people do for a while so
> I decide why not see how far its come in the last couple of years.
>
> So I buy a Compaq with the following Specs
>
> Dual Core AMD 3800+ CPU
> 1 Gigabyte of Ram
> 200 Gig SATA hard Drive
> Windows Vista Home Premium
> Nvidia 6150??? GPU
>
> This is the most powerful box I have EVER bought.  It is at least
> twice as powerful as my last workstation.
>
> I open the box:
>
> o - No install discs, not even the classic system image CDs
> o - Pretty straightfoward, except for no parallel printer port or
> serial ports
>
> I boot the box
>
> o - It asks me to create an account.  It then takes over 10 minutes
> to "optimize my windows experience".  I rebooted twice because it
> gave me absolutely no idea what it was doing.
> o - After cutting my own system image restore discs, which I can only
> do ONCE I let Norton activation and the system updates fight it out
> for a while
> o - With no apps running I'm already up to 780Mb used!!!
> o - So after a bunch of updates I reboot
> o - Allow/Deny confirmations for everything are great.  I get asked
> for about 10 times to setup my machine
>
> Now I'm on boot #2
>
> o - The time for the box to boot is about 120 seconds, which is
> amazing - plus 30 seconds to login as a user
> o - I fire up Internet explorer to discover that Compaq has sold my
> toolbar space to Yahoo and anybody else who will pay for it
> o - With the raw amount of adware/spyware/bloatware on this machine. 
> I'm surprised they aren't able to give it away for free
> o - I decide to uninstall some of the software such as AOL and the
> like.  Guess what they're not in the program listing.  Ha! Ha! Ha!
> You can delete the Icon, but the love is always going to be there. 
> Unless you use msiinv to work get real access to the underlying
> packages if they actually used a package
> o - To verify something isn't wrong with the box I boot into Knoppix
> 5.1.1 to make sure everything is Ok.  The machine sings in way it
> never will again, until I buy my next Vista box and repurpose this
> one to be my Linux box
> o - If you're like me and I know I am.  You probably have an html
> file you have on your desktop with links you hit frequently.  Well
> know you're going to go to allow/deny every time you hit one, because
> they are in different zones
> o - I decide I'd like to be able to print from my Windows box.  I've
> got a HP 4050 N with a jet direct card.  Everything I have can print
> from it, the only box I had problems with was XP because it didn't
> like a real network printer, since it was home edition.  I let Vista
> search my network for a printer.  I'm pretty excited, it takes about
> 5 minutes.  Maybe its finding a printer I forgot about :-)  Nope. 
> NaDa.  So I give it the IP and work through a wizard.  It works. 
> Yea!!!  Printing to a network printer in Vista is now as easy as it
> was in Linux about 3 years ago :-)
>
> I can only conclude the following:
>
> o - When Vista is the only Microsoft Windows Option for OEMs you will
> begin to see an adoption of Linux that is higher than ever
> o - Vista is the single largest step back I've ever seen Microsoft
> take, largely because you have no choice.  ME was a choice, this
> really isn't
> o - If this is Premium I shudder to think what the poor bastards who
> got Vista basic are going through
> o - If you have to dual boot, hang onto Windows XP for as long as you
> can.   
> o - If you use Linux get ready for company, because a whole lot of
> people are going to be coming our way :-)
>
> I'm honestly thinking of seeing if I can get the project running
> under Wine so I can truly take advantage of this new box.
>
> Regards,
>
> Aaron
> 0-0-0
> "The Journey is the Reward" - Old Zen Buddhist Saying
>
>
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